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Hey there, I'm Johnny Mack with your daily comedy news.
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I'm still bothered by the Emmys, and I'm particularly bothered
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because they just prepped this podcast and read all the
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Emmy recaps. It seems like I'm not wrong. A writer,
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Michael Markowitz on Threads posted for the Emmy writers to
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keep sending Naperghatzy out there with nothing but a tote
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board is WGA malpractice Writers Guild. The sitcom writer slang
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term for this is a knackamoora. The story is that
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The Bob Newhart Show had a joke about a Knockamora
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tape recorder that died, and the writers knew that there
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were a lot of Knockamora jokes to come and they
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would surely die too. You don't go all in like this,
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It's unprofessional. I kept thinking about how Nate did arena
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shows over the weekend. No, normally we hear that whoever's
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hosting the Awards shows usually does like a couple of
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club sets on the down low and works out the
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material for the week. But Nate didn't even do a monologue.
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The whole thing was weird. Paul Shecher posted why are
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we so obsessed with cutting off award speeches? Nobody's at
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home going. Oh, get back to the presentations and montages.
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Less of the humans. I like having a genuine moment, well,
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said Paul Sheer Variety's review. The Emmy's exciting winds were
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overshadowed by an uninspiring host and countdown clock gimmick. Yeah,
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I had recommended that we hold our innate berghatzy stock.
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Now I'm wishing we had sold on Friday. We're definitely
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selling this week. I'll tell you that, Variety rights. From
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his opening monologue, Burghetzi said an almost lackadaisical a political
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tone for the evening. He lacked the enthusiasm and gumption
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needed to lead a three hour long award program, and
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often seemed stunned to be in the spotlight. Well that's
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kind of his act. At one point, he even done
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a dreadful Canadian tuxedo which was like made out of
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denim and like I didn't get the joke until somebody
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pointed out, which may have been a nod to Sidney
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Sweeney's controversial genes ads. He was wearing that to introduce
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Sidney Sweeney. I didn't even put that together Friday Ads.
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It would have been nice if this and many of
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Bargatzie's other jokes lended more clearly. Then they get into
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the timer thing that we talked about yesterday. Winner seemed
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flustered and rushed, almost racing through their big moment instead
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of being allowed to bask in something they've worked so
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hard to obtain. Amen. Brother. This misstep became glaringly obvious
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as presenters droned on and on, eating up the time
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that could have been given to the winners. There was
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also the random caveat of Burgatzy enlisting JB. Smooth and
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four adorable children to represent the Boys and Girls Clubs,
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which lets you obviously confuse children coming out each time
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to help escort presenters and winners off the stage. Yeah,
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did you catch that? The kids were like, what do
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we do? It like? It just didn't work, and in
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the end, Burghetzie announced the whole thing donation Frenzy had
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been a bad joke. Of course, he and CBS were
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donating three hundred and fifty thousand dollars to the Boys
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and Girls Club after all, even though the speech club
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was very much in the red. If they wanted to
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look at wasted time. The call was coming from inside
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the house. Now many things can be true at once.
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One three hundred and fifty thousand dollars is a very
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generous donation. You know, no one made the make so
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it's very generous too. How much was an add on
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the Emmys. I tried looking that up. I couldn't find anything,
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so I won't speculate. The big winner of the night
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Stephen Colbert. Early on he got a standing ovation, standing
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center stage in a tuxedo when he looked all the
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part of the host. And then there were the nominees
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for Outstanding Talk Series. The winner Stephen Colbert. He gave
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a great speech, Let's listen.
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May you to children, May you children, thank you, thank you,
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thank you for this honor. I want to thank CBS
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for giving us the privilege to be part of the
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late night tradition, which I hope continues long after we're
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no longer doing this show. I gotta thank that these people,
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those people up there, the two hundred incredible professionals.
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You are the pros from Dover.
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And I'm so proud to be one of you. We
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got to thank the people who've supported us for the
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last twenty years Carrie By, like James baby Doll Dixon personally. Personally,
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I want to thank my beautiful, brilliant wife, Evvy, who's
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the real brains of the outfit, my three children, Matteline,
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Peter and John. I'm going to dedicate this to my
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mom and dad, her mom and dad, and a young
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woman who should be here tonight, Amy Cole's. Ten years ago,
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in September of twenty fifteen, Spike Jones stopped by my
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office and said, Hey, what do you want this show
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to be about? And I said, Ah, Spike, I don't
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know how you could do it, but I kind of
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like to do a late night show, you know, a
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late night comedy show that was about love. And I
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don't know if I ever figured that out, but at
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a certain point, and you can guess what that point was,
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I realized that in some ways we were doing a
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late night comedy show about loss, and that's related to love,
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because sometimes you only truly know how much you love
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something when you get a sense that you might be
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losing it. Ten years later, in September of twenty twenty five,
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my friends, I have never loved my country more desperately.
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God bless America, Stay strong, be brave, and if the
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elevator tries to bring you down, go crazy and punch
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a higher floor.
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Whoa Democrats? You should call him now. If you're curious,
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who was Amy Cole that was referenced in the speech.
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Amy Cole was Colbert's executive assistant for many years. She
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passed away in March twenty twenty five. Her obituary red
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working with Colbert for sixteen years was more than a
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job to Amy. He gave her a purpose and provided
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an opportunity to showcase herself as an incredible teammates everyone involved.
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She was adored by her entire late show work family,
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and she will be greatly missed. Her cause of death
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was not publicly shared. However, one of the producers from
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the show had posted on Twitter at that time f cancer.
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John Oliver during his unnecessarily rushed speech was bleeped out.
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We have found out what he said. John said, thanks
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to h especially thanks to Casey and Elena. Thank you
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to our staff especially. He then said, f you, Nate Brigetzi,
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this is a lot of money for you. You can
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add enough to the swear jar as well. That's got
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to be enough. Thank you. Goodbye, and then rushed off
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the stage unnecessarily website. The playlist did their best and worst.
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Under worst, they have the Boys and Girls Club embarrassment.
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I know I'm beating the dead horse here, but I
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this annoyed me. In case you can't tell, they write
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this is spaghetti stick to play with the donation clock
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all night long? And why did we waste time with JB.
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Smooth propping up kids from the club when speeches are
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being cut? And who thought having the ticket displayed on
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screen next to the talent when they went over was
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a good idea? Listen, giving the charity is a great idea,
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but this was a passive, aggressive bit that disrespected not
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only the charity but the winners in their one moment
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in the spotlight. And it just got worse and worse
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as the night went on. They also added under their
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worst Nateprigetzi, a super popular stand up comedian Forgetsie, was
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always a questionable choice to host. He's not industry enough
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to even throw out the casual jokes regular viewers would
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chuckle at, and he's never demonstrated consistent acting talent. Shockingly,
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his opening monologue was almost entirely setting up the aforementioned
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bit either, which here the producers thought would get winners
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to keep their speech a short. As it started to fail,
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he began to flounder. At one point he even joked
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had never been doing this again, that is true. Honestly,
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we had sympathy for Baghetzie until we realized the ind
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of production had no intention of giving up the penalty
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clock bit. He almost seemed embarrassed, and not in a
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comedic way, that it was going so badly. The l
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eight Times was more generous. They wrote, If your goal
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was to avoid insulted celebrities, social media outrage, or petulant
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notes from the White House, you could have done no
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better than the higher Baghetti. His appeal is not so
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much mainstream, which is to say, soft edge, as it
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is broad, something for everybody. However, the state of the
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world was addressed presenter Julianne Nicholson. Instead of living in
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a post apocalyptic bunker in Paradise, great show if you've
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never watched it. She compared that show to current headlines
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as positive, feel good TV. Again in the Apocalypse If Hiller,
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who won Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series, thank the
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writers for writing a show of connection. And love in
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this time when compassion is seen as a weakness. Last
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week Tonight writer Daniel O'Brien dedicated the award to all
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writers of political comedy while that is still a type
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of show that's allowed to exist. Gene Smart ended her
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speech saying, let's be good to each other. Let's just
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be good to each other, and Hannah ein Bender finished
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with I just want to say go birds, f ice
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and free Palestine. Time magazine's review was naperghets he might
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be stand Up's biggest star, but he blew it at
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the twenty twenty five Emmys. They made the same point
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most other articles did. My favorite review comes from my
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favorite reviewer, Daniel Feinberg and The Hollywood Reporter. He writes,
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given that I live in Los Angeles and work for
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an entertainment industry trade publication, I'm not supposed to admit this,
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but most of the country, not most, but probably more
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than some, has a particular perception about Hollywood writers and
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directors and producers and movie stars. You sometimes hear live
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in a liberal bubble and emerge only for the occasional
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awards shows. Gallus dedicated to famous people patting themselves on
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the collective butt, espousing left wing talking points and generally
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ignoring the possibility of the whole whole industry is having
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a corrosive effect on society, especially young people. I'll jump
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in there, the padding themselves on the back thing. Yeah,
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no surprise that the studio won a lot of awards.
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I find that show very overrated. Daniel wriits very few
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minds will likely to have been changed by the emmes.
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He then gets into the forty five second bit. Instead,
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it was left to CBS, a network perceived as churning
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over its ideological keys, to Donald Trump to donate one
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hundred thousand dollars, and Brigetzie, a compulsively wholesome comic from Tennessee,
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to donate two hundred fifty thousand dollars. So the Boys
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and Girls Clubs of America ended up big winners on
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Sunday thanks to a network eager to befriend the administration
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and to a red state comic, and no thanks to
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the Hollywood elite. Was that a narrative the producers or
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CBS or Baghettie not a political comic in any way
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intended to build a show around or just want to
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happen hard to tell. But if you asked me to
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summarize the plot of Sunday's Emmys, that's the plot let.
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It never be said the Burghetzie and the producers didn't
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have a tough job, made even tougher by the precariously
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polarized nature of our country, perhaps more this week than
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ever before. They failed completely, But I'm not really sure
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what success would have looked like. Now I don't agree
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with this next sentence. Don't worry, Joe Coy. You still
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hold the distinction of being the worst host in my
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not insignificant memory. That's taylor'sw's fault. Joe Coy was way
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better than Nate. Come on, way better. I'm not saying better,
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I'm saying way better, Dander says of the Emmys. It
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was an ill conceived mess, punctuated by well deserved winds
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and emotional and effective speeches, but rarely helped by Burghetzie's
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consistently uneasy performance. I figured he was more likely to
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deliver a low key charm, keep everybody comfortable, and spend
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very little time in the spotlight. Instead, he decided to
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make everybody uncomfortable, sometimes as a choice and sometimes just
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as a matter of course, Burgetzy bungled the names of
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people and shows, rarely looked at home finding and addressing
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the correct camera, and somehow was given only one recurring
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piece of business, that tally of how much money Hollywood
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stars were trying to steal from kids. Wow. The only
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thing saving Burghetzy and the show from its natter status
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is that there was no sense of hostility in the room,
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which could not be said when Joe Coy was bombing
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at the Globes and decided to turn on his writers
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and then basically vanish from the show. Structurally, brigets He's
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hosting was strange. There was no monologue, and Steady repurposed
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his extremely funny George Washington's sketches, et cetera, et cetera.
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It has to be said nobody was played off. So
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if that's among your criteria, it was a success. Well.
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If there's anything Hollywood loves more than patting itself on
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the butt, it's taking money from children. Outstanding Comedy Series
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Winner of the Studio, Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series,
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seth Rogen the Studio, Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series,
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Gene Smart Hacks, Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series
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Jeff Hiller Somebody Somewhere, Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series.
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Hannah Einbinder hacks Outstanding Writing for Comedy Series The Late
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Show with Stephen Colbert beating out The Daily Show and Kimmel.
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Outstanding Variety Special Live SNL fifty The Anniversary Special beating
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out Beyonce Bull, The Oscars, the Super Bowl Halftime, and
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SNL's Homecoming Concert. Many people think the home comedy concert
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was actually better than a special. I kind of agree.
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Outstanding Scripted Variety Series, John Oliver beats out SNL. Outstanding