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Congratulations to Stephen Colbert and the staff of the ‘Late Show’ who have received a Gold Derby TV Award nomination for “Variety Talk Series”.
VARIETY TALK SERIES:
“Full Frontal with Samantha Bee”
“Jimmy Kimmel Live”
“Last Week Tonight with John Oliver”
“Late Late Show with James Corden”
“The Late Show with Stephen Colbert”
“Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon”Cast Your Vote: Gold Derby.
Congratulations to the staff of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert who have received six Primetime Emmy nominations.
The Unicode Consortium has released version 10.0 of the Unicode Standard, which includes the long-awaited Colbert emoji.
The code required to support these new emoji’s is now considered stable and final, and will be included in new updates from major vendors, including Apple, Google, Microsoft and Samsung in 2017.
Fresh on the heels of Stephen’s gentle criticism of The Weather Channel’s penchant for naming winter storms, the folks at TWC responded in a surprising way: by bestowing upon Mr. Colbert the honor of being named for the third storm of next year’s winter season. Watch The Weather Channel make their announcement below:
As Stephen would say, the one thing this demonstrates is two things: first off, who knew The Weather Channel people had such a good sense of humor? Secondly, this shows that Stephen’s still got it going on in terms of being named after all manner of things. In the days of old, we fans took it for granted when space treadmills, spiders, and the like were becoming Colbert-ized.
My only hope is that Winter Storm Colbert is a mild storm that doesn’t generate too many negative headlines! On the other hand, if it creates a lot of snow and some snow days, Stephen will get the publicity and perhaps some appreciative students.
Congratulations to Jim Hoskinson who has been nominated for a “Directors Guild of America Award” in the category of “Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Variety/Talk/News/Sports – Regularly Scheduled Programming” for Episode #0179 of ‘The Late Show with Stephen Colbert’. Jim was previously nominated for his work on ‘The Colbert Report’ in 2007 for “Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Musical Variety” for episode #3052 and in 2013 and 2015 for “Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Variety / Talk / News / Sports - Regularly Scheduled Programming” for episode #10004 and #11040.
Congratulations to ‘The Late Show with Stephen Colbert’ writers who have been nominated for a “Writers Guild of America Award” in the category of “Comedy / Variety (Including Talk) Series”.
Stephen Colbert has received a ‘People’s Choice Award’ nomination for ‘Favorite Late Night Talk Show Host’.
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The People’s Choice Awards 2017 will be broadcast on 18th January, 2017 at 9/8c on CBS.
BlackBerry have become the first smartphone to add the raised eyebrow emoji, popularly known as the Stephen Colbert emoji, to its BBM App.
Speaking on the emoji, Inside BlackBerry’s Mike Mitchell says, ‘It only makes sense that the company to invent the smartphone would be the first to add an emoji nicknamed after a fellow originator. I see Stephen Colbert and BlackBerry much the same. Both have large cult-like followings (#TeamBlackBerry, anyone?) and both dare to be different and stand out from the pack by being unique.’
Having recieved approval from the Unicode Consortium, users of other platforms can expect to see the emoji released on Android and iOS soon. For users with BB10, the emoji will be available with the next BBM update.