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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 …

One of the biggest challenges an awards show host faces is helping the producers keep time, and the No. 1 offender is acceptance speeches. Everything else can be planned out and rehearsed, but the winners’ thank yous are unpredictable. Live awards shows have traditionally battled the issue with music meant to play off the winner when they got long-winded — …

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 …

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 …

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. …

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 …

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 …

Emmys host Nate Bargatze has a novel — and potentially expensive — plan to keep acceptance speeches short this year. During a visit to Jimmy Kimmel Live on Wednesday, the comedian revealed that he plans to donate $100,000 to the Boys & Girls Clubs of America after the awards ceremony. However, the exact contribution amount will depend on whether the various winners …

Inside linebacker Nate Landman‘s Rams debut got the attention of the rest of the league. Landman on Wednesday was announced as the NFC Defensive Player of the Week for Week 1. The fourth-year pro’s late-fourth quarter forced fumble – knocked out of Texans running back Dare Ogunbawale’s grasp peanut-punch style – helped clinched Los Angeles’ 14-9 victory over Houston last …

I notice Nate Bargatze’s car before I notice him. The burnt orange Porsche has just pulled up to the bustling Nashville restaurant where we’ve agreed to meet, and the valet is signaling for Bargatze to park out front. Once he’s made his way inside, he’ll tell me that his primo spot is a perk of driving a stick shift — what …