United Kingdom, Sept. 15 -- Stephen Colbert urged Hollywood to hire his staff as he accepted his Outstanding Variety Series award at the Emmys on Monday (14.09.26).

The 62-year-old presenter - who said goodbye to The Late Show With Stephen Colbert in May after it was cancelled by CBS - praised the talent of his writing team, who had won the show's first Emmy for Variety Series Writing last weekend, and noted how the nightly talk shows are a great launch pad for new faces.

Standing amongst those who worked on the show, he said on stage at Los Angeles' Peacock Theater: "If you liked the comedy tonight, my old writers wrote it.

"Thank you so much on behalf of the over 200 people who threw themselves at this show for 11 years.

"The thing ...