Emmys 2017: Stephen Colbert jokes that Donald Trump is the Emmys fault in opening monologue
He's looking forward to Trump's tweet response
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Your support makes all the difference.Stephen Colbert tore into Donald Trump once more at the 69th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards, with a series of jokes that culminated in him bringing former White House press secretary Sean Spicer out on stage.
Colbert assumed that the president would be watching, joking that Trump is the only one who has enough time to keep up to date on television and saying he is "looking forward to the tweets."
The talk show host had mentioned that his monologue would again be political, and though he opened with gags about the HBO hack and the fragmentation of television viewing, Trump was the centrepiece.
Showing footage of Trump expressing his anger over not winning an Emmy for The Apprentice during a debate, Colbert suggested that, given Trump's love of winning, he might not have run for president if he'd managed to win an Emmy.
"This is all your fault," he told the audience.
To the shock of Sean Spicer impersonator Melissa McCarthy, who was part of it, Colbert then introduced Spicer himself, who joked about the ceremony having a bigger audience that his old boss' inauguration.
Putting comedy to one side, Colbert also thanked the first responders who put their lives on the line to help victims of hurricanes Harvey and Irma.
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