Comedian Nate Bargatze is confronting his critics after his hosting stint at the 77th Emmy Awards earlier this month was met with negative reviews from the press. Bargatze was widely panned for his elaborate plan to shorten acceptance speeches. He promised a donation of $100,000 to the Boys & Girls Club of America, but that amount diminished for every speech …
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Emmys host. Illustration: CBS via Getty Images Can Nate Bargatze make it make cents? More than a week later, the host of the 2025 Emmys is still trying to break down the thought process behind taking money away from the Boys & Girls Club of America if a celebrity took longer than 45 seconds to accept their award. “I wasn’t …
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Nate Bargatze says he never planned to donate $250,000 of his own cash to the Boys & Girls Clubs of America after the 2025 Emmys. Speaking on his Nateland podcast this week, the host confirmed that the ongoing bit was intended as a positive thing. “It came from a real place of heart,” he said. “I wasn’t trying to put anyone on …
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John Oliver stopped by Jimmy Kimmel Live after earning two Emmys for Last Week Tonight, and took the opportunity to reflect on being forced to keep his acceptance speech short. Oliver recounted how he managed to thank everyone in only 19 seconds after the Emmys host, Nate Bargatze, kicked off a long-running (and much-maligned) bit where money was deducted from …
Read More »Nate Bargatze vowed to keep politics out of his Emmy hosting gig — and he stuck to it on Sunday night. The stand-up comedian, a first-time host on television’s biggest awards show, kept things light, inoffensive and moving along, but it took time to find his rhythm. Bargatze seemed nervous out of the gate during the CBS telecast. Luckily, he …
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If you’re at least looking at the length of this year’s Emmy Awards, Sunday night’s running gag about the Boys & Girls Clubs was a success. That’s the word from Jesse Collins Entertainment producers Jesse Collins, Dionne Harmon and Jennae Rouzan-Clay, all of whom spoke with reports just minutes after the show wrapped at downtown Los Angeles’ Peacock Theatre. “The …
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Nate Bargatze opened the Emmys dressed as Philo T. Farnsworth, the inventor of television, in a sketch with “Saturday Night Live” stars Bowen Yang, Mikey Day and James Austin Johnson. The bit, set 100 years in the past, was a play on Bargatze’s famous “SNL” sketch “Washington’s Dream,” as the comedian poked fun at the absurdity of the contemporary television …
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The 2025 Emmy Awards raised $350,000 for the Boys and Girls Club after host Nate Bargatze pledged to donate $100,000 with the incentive of keeping the winners’ acceptance speeches 45 seconds or shorter. Bargatze kicked off Sunday’s awards show by explaining that he was challenged to come up with a way to keep the acceptance speeches within the allotted time. …
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Nate Bargatze honored his promise to keep politics and hot button topical subjects out of his opening for tonight’s Emmy Awards, instead jumping into the past – his own, and the television industry’s. In a nod to the comedian’s hilarious and very popular Saturday Night Live sketches (watch below) in which he portrayed George Washington delivering (not so) rousing speeches …
Read More »LOS ANGELES (AP) — Nate Bargatze, the host of this year’s Emmy Awards, kicked off the ceremony Sunday with a string of jokes poking fun at the television industry. The show opened with a sketch where “Saturday Night Live” stars Mikey Day, Bowen Yang and James Austin Johnson joined Bargatze, who played television inventor Philo T. Farnsworth. The audience was …
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