Let’s Talk Talk: Breaking Down the Merits of Emmy-Nominated Late-Night Shows
variety.comHunter Ingram For seven years, if you weren’t named John Oliver, you were just happy to be nominated in the talk series category at the Emmys.
Between 2016 and 2022, HBO’s “Last Week Tonight With John Oliver” dominated the category, a streak beaten only by Oliver’s former employer, “The Daily Show With Jon Stewart,” which won variety talk series the entire decade between 2003 and 2012.
That remains the longest winning streak for any primetime series in Emmy history. But the category has been no stranger to change in recent years.
Up until 2015, late-night talk shows competed against the likes of “Saturday Night Live” in the variety series category. Then, the Television Academy split that category into variety talk series and variety sketch series.
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