“I don’t think anyone intentionally was like, ‘We’re gonna set her up to fail’,” the former A Little Late host says in a new interview with Julia Cunningham. “But… I don’t think any part of it was set up to really be successful. [Via Deadline]

“I want to toss a bouquet of admiration to the other nominees in our category, my dear friends, Jon Stewart and Jimmy Kimmel,” Colbert said as he returned to The Late Show Tuesday night. “These two fellas, old friends, [are] unbelievably talented… just two princes.”