Emmys 2016: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver wins Outstanding Variety Talk Series

HBO's Last Week Tonight with John Oliver has just won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Variety Talk Series. The award was won last year and every year from 2003 to 2012 by The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, but Stewart's Daily Show successor Trevor Noah was not nominated this year.
This award is an affirmation of the bandied-about claim that Oliver has taken over Stewart's role as late night's sharpest dissenting voice in the last year. That said, Samantha Bee's Full Frontal wasn't nominated fo