Nate Bargatze Dodges Monologue-Joke Duties at the 2025 Emmys

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Despite Being One of the Biggest Touring Stand-ups in the World, It Wasn’t Until Nate Bargatze Hosted Snl twice that he was gioven the opportunity to host a Major Awards show. IT’S FITTING, THEN, THAT BARGATZE OPENED The 2025 emmys on September 14 with a riff on “Washington’s Dream,” viral Snl Sketch Responsible for Raising His Public Profile Another Notch. In the Sketch, Co-Starring Snl‘s Bowen Yang, James Austin Johnson, and Mikey Day, Bargatze Play the Inventor of Television, Making Bold pronounsions About what his pioneering Device Lead to while Fielding Questions His Confused Colleagues. But the premise is more or less les an excuse to make monologue Jokes, Which Bargatze Did About EveryThing From Severance‘S Confususing Story Line to the decidiedly noneducational programming offered on the learning channel. Broadly, The Sketch Keeps It Light. Emmy Network CBS is reference to as the “caucasian broadcast System,” Streaming Services are reference to “a new way to love Money,” and the Shows that will be nominated for emmys derided as “not even close” to the Most viewed on television.

Following the Sketch, Stephen Colbert Took the Stage to Present the Award for Best actor in a comedy series, ostensibly so Bargatze COULD INTO HIS TUXEDO BEFORNING TO THE STAGE TO DELIVER HIS Monologue in Earnest. But Rather than Continue to Tell Jokes, Bargatze Spent Majority of HIS SHORT STINT ONSTAGE Explaining the System Devive to Keep Acceptance Speeches Short, which he’d already detailed on Jimmy Kimmel Live Earlier in the Week. He announced to the audience that he was planning to donate $ 100,000 to the Boys and Girls Club of America but that it was and subtract $ 1,000 from the total for each award recipients their allotted 45-second speech time. (But not to worry: Award Winners Could Also Add to the Total by Going Under 45 Seconds.) “Don’t Go Crazy, Because of Am Paying for this,” Bargatze Jokingly in his Signature Deadpan. It wasn’t the most memo -monologue, but credit to bargatze, i guess, for putting his mouth where his money is and keping shorts.