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\n\tLess than a month ago, Stephen Colbert took his final bow as host of CBS\u2019 Late Show<\/em>. Last Wednesday night, it was his wife, Evie Colbert, who was in the spotlight, as she received the inaugural Evelyn McGee Colbert Visionary Award from Montclair Film, the New Jersey-based nonprofit behind the Montclair Film Festival, on which Evie Colbert until recently served as board president. In addition to receiving the now annual award, which will be dubbed the Evie, Evie and Stephen Colbert established the Evelyn McGee Colbert Visionary Fund to provide Montclair Film with resources to highlight visionary industry leaders and create community through storytelling.<\/p>\n

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\n\tEvie Colbert recently shifted to the role of president emeritus of the Montclair Film board, stepping down after nearly a decade of daily involvement.<\/p>\n

\n\tThough she\u2019ll continue to remain closely involved with the organization (she\u2019s \u201cnot going anywhere,\u201d as she insisted), this shift offered an opportunity to recognize how far Montclair Film has come over its 15-year existence and pay tribute to all of the ways Evie Colbert contributed to that growth.<\/p>\n

\n\tAnd that\u2019s just what the Colberts, the leadership of Montclair Film and some famous faces did at Joe\u2019s Pub in Manhattan amid performances by Joe McGinty & The Loser\u2019s Lounge.<\/p>\n

\n\tAs new board president Mary Anne Vaughn said in presenting Evie Colbert with her award, \u201c16 years ago, Montclair Film began as a spark of an idea. Founder Bob Feinberg invited Evie for coffee, and together they imagined a modest film festival. From that simple meeting, Montclair Film has grown into something extraordinary today. Montclair Film is far more than a film festival. Our nonprofit is a vibrant year-round organization featuring robust educational programming, two flourishing cinemas and of course the thriving 10-day film festival that started it all. Through the support of everyone in this room tonight, we have built a cultural cornerstone for our community and for the film industry.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAnd as Evie Colbert herself put it, \u201cWe\u2019re not just a tiny nonprofit anymore, with a four-day festival and a bunch of board members who go to parties and put up step-and-repeats,\u201d recalling how she and others involved with the festival used to assemble red-carpet backdrops in the early days of the festival.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWe\u2019re a $6.5 million organization,\u201d she added. \u201cWe have, I think, 23 full-time staff members. Our educational programs reach over 5,000 students every year, and we operate two independent art house movie theaters.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tDuring her speech, Evie Colbert reflected on how both she and her husband were experiencing career changes and revealed how many of the same principles that Stephen Colbert had kept in mind during his time in late night had informed her work with Montclair Film.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI\u2019ve been thinking a lot about transitions lately,\u201d she said. \u201cThe Colbert family\u2019s been going through quite a few of them. Last week, we moved Stephen out of his office at The Late Show<\/em>, and he showed me a tiny scrap of paper that I\u2019d never seen. It was taped to the edge of his desk. It just has five words written on it: loyalty, respect, trust, honesty and love. He kept it there for over 21 years to remind him of the kind of show he wanted to lead. Well, for the past 15 years, it\u2019s been my incredible honor to work with all of you to build something that we love, and we do it with trust and honesty and respect, and you\u2019ve all done that with me.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tEvie Colbert also offered a personal thank you to her husband as she expressed her heartfelt gratitude to many of the individual people who were instrumental in creating and growing Montclair Film. Evie Colbert recalled how when she first got involved with Montclair Film, Stephen Colbert said, \u201cThis sounds like a really fun idea. Why don\u2019t you do it and let me help you?\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\tShe added, \u201cAnd 20,000 interviews later, you have helped us,\u201d poking fun at how many Hollywood stars he\u2019d conducted sit-down chats with at Montclair events over the years.<\/p>\n

\n\tNow the Colberts are continuing to help Montclair Film in the future through their Visionary Fund.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI love living in this world that we have built. It\u2019s a world that celebrates how storytelling deepens our connections and acknowledges our shared humanity. It\u2019s hard sometimes to find that environment these days, and that\u2019s why Stephen and I decided to establish this visionary fund. We wanted to create a reserve fund that will provide annual support to bring filmmakers and industry leaders to Montclair. So they can share their work and stories and experiences with our community,\u201d Evie Colbert said, thanking those who had contributed to the fund. \u201cWith your help, we have ensured that Montclair Film will continue to grow to become even more of a leading destination for cinema artists.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tTaking the stage after Evie Colbert, Stephen Colbert said he was \u201cso proud\u201d to be her husband.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI\u2019m so happy that she received this recognition here tonight,\u201d he added. \u201cFor the last 15 years, I\u2019ve said, \u2018I don\u2019t understand why you do it. No one\u2019s chanting your name and your name isn\u2019t on the front of the building!\u2019 I know she\u2019s incredibly touched by what everyone has said here tonight, and I know how uncomfortable she is with this level of spotlight. She has dedicated her life to nonprofits and the arts and serving other people, and it\u2019s in her family\u2019s blood. Building the community that we grew up in was so important to Patty and Peter McGee, and I know more than anyone else in the universe, your mother and father are looking down and they\u2019re so proud of you.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tA number of the Colberts\u2019 famous friends also sent in video messages expressing their support for Evie and her work with Montclair Film \u2014 or at least that\u2019s what they were supposed to say.<\/p>\n

\n\tSteve Carell wished her a happy birthday and began singing before wife Nancy corrected him that \u201cshe\u2019s stepping down as the creative director of Montclair Film.\u201d \u201cCongratulations to you,\u201d Carell resumed, to the tune of the \u201cHappy Birthday\u201d song.<\/p>\n

\n\tConan O\u2019Brien joked that he flew to Morocco for his tribute spending \u201chundreds of thousands of dollars\u201d just for his hat. John Oliver poked fun at his personal film history, joking that he was a \u201ccertifiable movie star,\u201d citing his roles in The Love Guru<\/em> and the Smurfs<\/em> films, which he joked \u201ccurrently has 14 percent on Rotten Tomatoes out of, I presume, a maximum of 15 percent. I\u2019m pretty sure that\u2019s how numbers work.\u201d And central Jersey native Jon Stewart joked he wasn\u2019t \u201cjealous in any way\u201d of the Montclair Film Festival.<\/p>\n

\n\tBut arguably the sharpest barb came from Jimmy Fallon, who quipped, in reference to how CBS has replaced The Late Show<\/em> with Byron Allen\u2019s Comics Unleashed<\/em>, \u201cI don\u2019t know how we\u2019re going to get Byron Allen out to Montclair, New Jersey.\u201d<\/p>\n

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