Quote #49
Stewart: We are here to honor achievement in [reality television]...
More from Stephen Colbert
- Colbert: (talking about reality TV): It warps the minds of our children and weakens the resolve of our allies.
- Earlier in the evening, Colbert had been beaten in the Outstanding Individual Performance category by Barry Manilow.
- Presenting the Outstanding Reality-Competition Program Award with Jon Stewart.
- My character is self-important, poorly informed, well-intentioned, but an idiot: So we said, 'Let's give him a promotion.'
- Jon Stewart: Thank you very much, it's a pleasure to be here tonight.
- His humor is an accumulation of the eccentricities, mannerisms and jokes of his ten older brothers and sisters, a medley that trickled down.
- And I just like the guy. He's a good joe. Obviously loves his wife, calls her his better half, and polls show America agrees.
- It's one thing for an asshole to play an asshole. But [Stephen's] basic decency can't be hidden.