{"id":69033,"date":"2026-03-09T14:15:01","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T21:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=69033"},"modified":"2026-03-10T09:32:52","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T16:32:52","slug":"steven-colbert-delivers-a-hilarious-acceptance-farewell-speech-at-writers-guild-award-ceremony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=69033","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Colbert Delivers a Hilarious Acceptance\/Farewell Speech at Writers Guild Award Ceremony"},"content":{"rendered":"

The 78th Annual Writers Guild of America’s annual awards ceremony was held Sunday night in New York City. Among the recipients was Stephen Colbert, whose CBS “Late Night”<\/em> program was recently canceled amid a controversial ownership shake up that put the network into the hands of Trump-friendly billionaires, David and Larry Ellison. Its final episode will air on May 21, 2026.<\/p>\n

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Colbert was honored with the prestigious and rarely presented “Walter Bernstein Award”<\/em> that is presented to a Guild member who has “demonstrated with creativity, grace and bravery a willingness to confront social injustice in the face of adversity.”<\/em> There is no one who better exemplifies those principles than Colbert. Particularly at this point in his career. Although the punishment meted out by his corporate bosses might have backfired on them…<\/p>\n

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Robert Smigel (Saturday Night Live, Conan O’Brien, Triumph the Insult Comic Dog, etc.) gave Colbert a lengthy and entertaining, anecdote-laden introduction, reminding the audience of Colbert’s work on many programs, including The Dana Carvey Show, Strangers With Candy, The Daily Show, and The Colbert Report. Then he brought Colbert to the podium for his acceptance speech, who led off with a bit of the back story on the award’s namesake. (Colbert begins at about 14:00)<\/p>\n

“Thank you for the honor of the Walter Bernstein award. Bernstein was a brilliant writer and, as you know, was Blacklisted. I did a little research, and as I did research I discovered – I don’t know why I didn’t know this – it dawned on me that the Blacklist was not a government policy. The Blacklist wasn\u2019t a law or a regulation or an executive order. It was a voluntary industry-wide agreement to deny work to left-leaning artists out of fear that certain members of the government might publicly attack the parent corporation of these artists for the union that they belong to. It was that threat, only the threat, of trouble, that ended so many careers.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n