Bringing Spicer up on Emmys stage was Colbert’s idea: report

Host Stephen Colbert was the one behind bringing former White House press secretary Sean Spicer on stage during Sunday night’s Emmy Awards, CNN reported.

Colbert has routinely criticized and made fun of the Trump administration on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.”

“This will be the largest audience to witness an Emmys, period, both in-person and around the world,” Spicer said on stage, mocking the rhetoric he used to describe the size of the crowd during President Trump’s inauguration in January. 

{mosads}Spicer entered the stage on a rolling podium, a nod to the one used by Melissa McCarthy, his impersonator on “Saturday Night Live.”

But Spicer’s appearance at the television awards show has been scrutinized, with critics slamming the role Spicer played in an administration that has been marked by controversy in its first eight months.

“Shame on the Emmys for the Spicer validation. He is dedicated to demeaning our craft and restricting our freedoms of speech. #Unforgivable,” Keith Olbermann wrote on Twitter.