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Stephen Colbert's 16 Best Jokes At The Emmys

"Everybody loves streaming video. Just ask Ted Cruz."

1. When he and Jimmy Kimmel drank away their loss to Last Week Tonight with John Oliver and made thinly veiled insults:

2. This timely political joke:

3. When he knocked all of the night's winners down a peg:

4. This epic Bill Maher diss:

5. His nod to the post-show television shows:

6. When he spoke directly to the president:

7. His HBO hacking joke, which he followed by asking, "too soon?"

8. When he tried to make Oprah feel better about being snubbed:

9. His excitement over network television's originality:

10. When he made this ~too real~ joke about the summer's box office numbers:

11. When he pulled up a years-old tweet of Donald Trump's that insulted Seth Meyers:

12. His reasoning as to why American television is very influenced by Trump:

13. This dose of show business realness:

14. When he joked about his CBS contractual obligations:

15. This truth:

16. And when he said goodbye to Sean Spicer like this: