Stephen Colbert Owes Everything to Jon Stewart

I don't know about you, but when I win things, I immediately jump at the opportunity to rub it in the faces of those who've done me wrong. I call up old bullies from high school and ask them how they like me now. I track down my birth parents and ask them how they like me now. I climb the tower of babel and ask God how He likes me now. Just kidding I've never won anything. But Stephen Colbert won something. It's an Emmy and he was a shade more gracious than I would hypothetically be.

“I really thought Jon was gonna win everything this year. My first
thought, the first thing we did was we just hugged each other. I was so
happy that he was there because I owe everything to him.” Colbert’s
award will have a permanent home in his library. “The room [in his
home] that was my baby was my library. We have floor to ceiling
bookshelf, with the rolling ladder, a Henry Higgins kind of library. On
the top, I found out before I left that an Emmy would fit on the top
shelf!”

[Via No Fact Zone]

Meanwhile, you can check out photos of Stephen with Kanye West, Jason Jones and Sarah Silverman at the Comedy Central Emmy after-party following the jump.