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>“We all just hunkered down trying to get through that day,” Yvonne De Mare says of the CBS broadcast

>The writers behind Stephen Colbert’s Late Show are in preparation mode for this year’s Emmy Awards, the award show’s host, Law & Order: SVU star Mariska Hargitay, revealed in an interview with Deadline on Tuesday.

>“I’m working with an incredible team of writers—the writers from Colbert,” she told the site. “We’ve been meeting a lot and discussing a lot and pitching a lot of ideas. We’re pitching so many ideas.”

>Stephen Colbert, whose 11-year run as host of “The Late Show” was defined in part by his feud with President Donald Trump, has received an “anti-censorship” award from a foundation established by the author-playwright-publisher Ishmael Reed.

>Colbert was among the recipients of the 47th annual American Book Awards. They were announced Wednesday by the Before Columbus Foundation, a non-profit organization based in Oakland, California, that champions diversity in U.S. literature and culture.

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>Colbert shares his anti-censorship prize with one of the country’s top independent booksellers, Mitchell Kaplan, founder of Books & Books in Coral Gables, Florida.

>Headlining the show’s latest auction wave are two of the show’s blue guest chairs—which hosted thousands of interviews during Colbert’s 11-season CBS run.

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>Beyond the guest chairs, the new auction includes several deeply Colbertian artifacts from the show’s prop and costume archives.

>Among them: Colbert’s stuffed pet “Caligula,” seen in the show’s “Hungry for Power Games” segments; Colbert’s vest from his USO trip to Greenland; the carpet used during the show’s recurring “Big Furry Hat” segments; and Colbert’s signed jacket from “Brain Fight with Tuck Buckford,” the Late Show bit built around his Alex Jones-style blowhard alter ego.

>The new listings, which also include three of Colbert’s neckties and one of his suits, continue a charity-auction run that began during the show’s final six months, when proceeds from Late Show memorabilia auctions and related sales raised nearly $2.5 million for World Central Kitchen.

>Since the show’s end, additional auctions have continued to benefit World Central Kitchen, along with Monroe Community Media and MusiCares, the Recording Academy’s nonprofit arm.

>This time, net proceeds from the sale of the items will support the Montclair Film Festival.

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>All available memorabilia pieces are up for bid at ColbertLateShow.com/eBay.

>The Late Show with Stephen Colbert may be over, but in a promising sign for its final award season chances, the Television Critics Association has just nominated Colbert’s cancelled CBS series for its most prestigious honor.

>The TCA Awards, an annual precursor to the Primetime Emmy Awards, has named The Late Show one of nine nominees for Program of the Year, which honors one show that had a major impact on the medium and culture.

>That’s rare air for a late-night talk show. The Late Show’s nomination marks the first time a late-night talk show has cracked the Program of the Year lineup in two decades.

>Should Colbert and company win, it would be only the second time in TCA Awards history that a late-night show has taken home the group’s top honor. The first time came in 1994, when Late Show with David Letterman won Program of the Year for its very first season on CBS.

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>Even if The Late Show doesn’t end up taking home Program of the Year, it has a second chance elsewhere on the ballot. Colbert’s show is also nominated for Outstanding Achievement in Variety, Talk or Sketch, where it will face The Daily Show, Jimmy Kimmel Live!, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, Late Night with Seth Meyers, The Muppet Show: Sabrina Carpenter, and Saturday Night Live.

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>Among the new items up for bid: a blue Late Show with Stephen Colbert sign that hung backstage at the Ed Sullivan Theater, where it welcomed celebrity guests arriving for their appearances on the show.

>Also on the block are several costumes and props from Colbert’s CBS run, including the alien helmet worn by Colbert and the blue jacket worn by Buzz Aldrin in the May 4, 2016 sketch “Moon Scoops With Buzz Aldrin”; Colbert’s Chicago Cubs hot dog vendor costume from his September 22, 2016 visit to Wrigley Field; and the Halloween “Boo” sweater he wore in “Halloween Wiggle,” a musical number co-starring Run the Jewels that aired October 27, 2017.

>Other Late Show lots include the “Zoltar” costume worn by Colbert in an October 24, 2016 sketch featuring Tom Hanks; a giant popcorn bucket and pair of 3D glasses from the January 16, 2020 episode that produced a widely shared meme of Colbert eating popcorn; and the regulation arm-wrestling table used when Colbert faced off against John Krasinski on December 2, 2022.

>The auction also includes the cardboard box labeled “Personal Space” from the recurring bit in which Tom Hanks, John Oliver, Seth Rogen, Steve Carell, Conan O’Brien, and Ricky Gervais each stuck their head inside the box to face off against Colbert.

>For fans of the show’s stranger late-run artifacts, there is also the custom-made dolphin prop from the May 7, 2026 “Kids Pitch” sketch; a human-sized robot costume seen on multiple episodes and last spotted being sucked into the vortex on the May 21, 2026 series finale; and a wax figure of President Zachary Taylor from a July 14, 2017 segment featuring John Oliver.

>Several items come from “The Worst of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,” including a giant pepperoni pizza slice and two custom-made pigeon costumes worn by Colbert and Michael Keaton in the special’s May 18, 2026 cold open.

>The latest auction wave also reaches back to Colbert’s Comedy Central years. Up for grabs is Colbert’s “Patriot Armor” Roman costume from The Colbert Report, originally seen on the June 7, 2007 episode. According to the listing, the handmade, one-of-a-kind costume has occupied a place of honor in The Late Show offices since 2015 and is autographed by Colbert.

>Also from The Colbert Report: a “Muppet”-style puppet modeled after Colbert.

>Stephen Colbert’s guests didn’t just leave The Late Show with a handshake and a plug well landed.
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>They also left with a DonorsChoose gift card—and the chance to help fund a public school classroom.
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>The education nonprofit spotlighted that off-camera tradition Tuesday in a new tribute video thanking Colbert for nearly two decades of support.
> >The practice gave Late Show guests a role in Colbert’s long-running relationship with DonorsChoose, which stretches back to his satirical 2007 presidential campaign, when he directed supporters to fund classroom projects through the nonprofit rather than donate to him.

>There’s a reason coverage of Stephen Colbert’s “The Late Show” series finale was missing from “CBS Mornings” last week, despite being industry-shaping news impacting the Eye Network.

>CBS News President Tom Cibrowski reportedly directed “CBS Mornings” to ignore Colbert‘s final “Late Show” episode over lingering resentment about a joke the late night host made directed at “CBS Evening News” anchor Tony Dokoupil and Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss.

>Puck’s Matthew Belloni first reported the news Tuesday, writing that the lack of acknowledgment of Colbert’s send-off on “CBS Mornings” last week was the result of a “specific directive” issued by Cibrowski.

>“That wasn’t an oversight,” according to Belloni. “I’m told the ghosting was a specific directive from CBS News President Tom Cibrowski, who hated Colbert’s recent bit mocking their failure to secure a China visa for anchor Tony Dokoupil.”

>Puck added that an individual with knowledge of the decision said the feeling was Colbert “kicked colleagues when they were down” and that the joke was “unprofessional and unprovoked.”

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>Strike Force Five returns for a special episode celebrating Stephen Colbert and the end of The Late Show.

>First on LateNighter: Ahead of Stephen Colbert‘s final bow as host of CBS’ The Late Show, a CNN documentary special will survey his potential legacy—as well as the larger implications of his late-night program’s cancellation.

>A new CNN FlashDoc, The Last Laugh: Stephen Colbert, will stream at CNN.com/Watch and on the CNN app this Friday, May 15. It will also air Sunday, May 17 at 8 p.m. ET on CNN, just days before the 33-year-old Late Show franchise’s highly anticipated series finale.