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Politics taking center stage at last night's emmy awards. host stephen colbert getting laughs at the expense of the president by poking fun at his obsession with winning. >> even during the campaign he would not let it go. this exchange actually happened in the debate. >> there was even a time when he didn't get an emmy for his tv program three years in a row. he started tweeting the emmys were rigged. >> i should have gotten it. >> but he didn't because unlike the presidency, emmys go to the winner of the popular vote. . >> suppose i should say at long last, mr. president, here is your emmy. ...

Charge. >> i want to be able to afford it. at least she found wisconsin, she was able to find the upper midwest. >> kimberly: gentlemen, when you lose wisconsin, you lose morning joe like that and they're poking fun at you in wisconsin, you know you're in trouble. joining is now a fox news contributor charlie hurt and richard fowler, radio talk show host larry elder. 3,000 canadian dollars for a vip ticket. she could get the people to show up to vote but they had to pay i guess, i don't know. >> she probably will get people to show up and hear her. it's so amazing to sit back and think about w...

Come back to the personal side of him. even absent the fame and everything else, in a one-on-one basis he was a genuinely fascinating individual, wonderful guy to talk to, challenging, brilliant, giving advice. he said one time to me, everybody needs a 90-year-old friend, you know? and that was what he was, you know, he was passing that along. giving pearls of wisdom all the time. >> poking fun at himself, as well. fascinating will be the takeaway there. johnny, thank you so much. columnist for "las vegas journal," good friend of the lewis family and jerry lewis and giving context to his caree...

Nights right now on a summer series on nbc, poking fun there. we have jimmy fallon dressing up as george washington and seth meyers as thomas jefferson an there is controversy surrounding the president and confederate war memorials but the president responded by telling people to study general john j. pershing. an american military icon but critibs say he's wrong to recommend people study a specific story and allen lichtman joins me, a professor at american university and the author of the case more impeachment. and explain why the president using the general pershing story would make a histor...

Inception. and our founders come from the "snl" spirit, will ferrell and adam mckay. it really is, you know, poking fun at things that everyone knows, right? everyone knows these public officials, everyone knows these scandals. and it's a way of shining a light on them. i don't think that it's ever really crossed the line. donald trump himself participated in "snl." he hosted a show. >> right. >> himself. so he understands the power of comedy. he participated in a self-aware enough to realize the power of comedy. it's just -- this is, again, a very long history. we're just living it today. >> ...