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Former Late Show with Stephen Colbert writer Felipe Torres Medina posted a homemade "For Your Consideration" Emmy campaign on Instagram over the weekend, saying CBS would not fund one following the show's cancellation.
The video, styled as an '80s sitcom opening, featured more than two dozen members of the writing staff and closed with a frame crediting Stephen T.
Colbert as "Da Boss" alongside the message "We'd love an Emmy!" The DIY Campaign Medina wrote in the post that CBS was not running a FYC campaign for the series, prompting the writers to produce their own.
The video featured writers Ariel Dumas, Gabe Gronli, Delmonte Bent, Steve Waltien, Caroline Lazar, Tom Purcell, Michael Brumm, Matt Lappin, Aaron Nemo, Aaron Cohen, Paul Dinello, Pratima Mani, Opus Moreschi, Brian Stack, Kate Sidley, Asher Perlman, Carley Moseley, Jay Katsir, Eliana Kwartler, John Thibodeaux, Michael Cruz Kayne, and Barry Julien.
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