New Delhi, March 10 -- Stephen Colbert used one of his last big nights in the spotlight to take a clear shot at his parent company Paramount - and the crowd loved every word of it.

The veteran late-night host picked up the Walter Bernstein Award at the 78th Annual Writers Guild Awards in New York on Sunday night. The prize goes to someone who has "demonstrated with creativity, grace and bravery a willingness to confront social injustice in the face of adversity."

It is named after Walter Bernstein, an American screenwriter who lost his job during Hollywood's Red Scare in the 1950s, and has only been handed out twice before.

The timing could not have been more loaded. The Late Show with Stephen Colbert is due to end on 21 May after ten ...