An evening of nostalgia, a Child Reindeer sweep and unimaginable launching pad for the upcoming seasons of The Bear and Shōgun made up the 76th Annual Primetime Emmys.
Whereas the Household Levy didn’t precisely rock the L.A.’s Peacock Theater as the primary father-and-son hosts, breakout moments got here courtesy of TV’s outdated guard (yey, Sweet Bergen!) and Jodie Foster’s first Emmy win.
Listed here are among the nice moments, surprises and snubs from tonight’s telecast on ABC.
Nice Second when Eugene Levy made a crack about The Bear‘s file wins within the comedy class and the way, nicely, it’s hardly a knee-slapping collection. “Within the true spirit of The Bear we is not going to be making any jokes.”
Shock when Martin Brief, Steve Martin and Selena Gomez got here out proper after the Levy opening monologue and confirmed us the best way to actually make the Emmy viewers snigger on the prime of the present. (Take this little zinger from Martin when explaining how he converses with actors he doesn’t acknowledge: “I beloved your scene with Nicole Kidman.”)
Snub when Billy Crudup took the primary assumed-for-Shōgun Emmy within the supporting drama actor class. The rapid thought was that votes for Takehiro Hira and Tadanobu Asano canceled one another out and gave Crudup the win. No matter; it was value listening to him take the stage and name out his “eye sweet” spouse, Naomi Watts.
Shock when The Bear‘s Liza Colón-Zayas gained her first Emmy, beating out grand dames Meryl Streep (who everybody anticipated to win) and Carol Burnett (who everybody thought would win). It’s magical when the TV Academy defies expectations and truly honors the well-deserved underdogs.
Nice second when Murphy Brown‘s Candice Bergen joked about how “at present a vp would by no means assault a girl for having children, so my work right here is completed. Meow!”
Shock the way it by no means fails to shock that The Good Spouse’s Eli Gold, er, Alan Cumming, has a bonnie Scottish accent.
Nice second when Kathy Bates joined Antony Star and Giancarlo Esposito on stage to characterize TV villains and introduced down the home with these yuks: “You understand how arduous it was to get a date after Distress? And my American Horror Story was forgetting to thank Ryan Murphy after I gained my Emmy.”
Snub to Seth Meyers, who lastly bought his first nomination in Finest Speak Collection, solely to lose out to perennial favourite Jon Stewart who returned part-time to The Day by day Present this yr. Someone, ol’ buddy. Sometime.
Nice Second when Billy Crystal took stage and riffed for a bit about showing on Johnny Carson earlier than getting all the way down to enterprise, introducing the nominees for finest discuss collection. He then launched into a superb gag wherein he learn entries from his private diary about all of the instances he appeared on the nominees’ reveals. (Pattern joke: “The Late Present with Stephen Colbert. Good man, however I ponder if he’s ever seen himself bare.”) Crystal, we’ll by no means give up you.
Swipe to the actor Will Smith after the author Will Smith gained an Emmy for writing for Gradual Horses and make this quip, “Regardless of my title, I are available peace.”
Awkward moment between Ebon Moss-Bachrach and Taylor Zachary Perez at a bar with a bottle of Johnnie Walker (painful product placement? Your guess is nearly as good as ours) earlier than introducing the Writing For the Restricted or Anthology Collection or Film class.
Disappointing Shock that as a substitute of reducing to the standard digicam after In Memoriam, the Emmys introduced out Jimmy Kimmel who made an off-color joke about useless individuals profitable one thing earlier than sharing a number of extra factoids concerning the late Bob Newhart. This is one of the best they may do with Kimmel?
Nice Second throughout the oh-so-small Blissful Days reunion (You bought Richie Cunningham. So the place’s Potsie and Ralph?) when Henry Winkler bought the outdated juke field going by punching it — similar to the Fonz used to do.
Painful second once I realized that — after the “coaches” matchup of Brendan Hunt and Jane Lynch — this gimmick of bringing outdated TV characters to the stage was beginning to outstay its welcome.
However then Shock! Jimmy Smits, Don Johnson and Niecy Nash-Betts took the stage for a cop reunion, adopted by Viola Davis, Christine Baranski and Gina Torres for lawyer reunion, so all was good on the planet once more.
Nice Second when Jodie Foster earned a standing ovation for profitable her first Emmy for True Detective: Darkish Nation.
Smack Upside the Head to Bradley Whitford, who type of ruined the reunion of The West Wing by tweeting earlier than the present that he wouldn’t be on stage with Martin Sheen, Allison Janney, Richard Schiff, Dulé Hill and Janel Maloney to offer the Finest Drama Emmy to Shōgun.
Nice second within the Excellent Comedy class. The place to begin? First, presenter Catherine O’Hara stated she was “shocked and excited” to be saying this yr’s finest comedy winner, earlier than ripping up the cardboard over how fallacious it was to honor only one comedy. After which…
SNUB ON STEROIDS! Hacks — an precise comedy — gained the large prize, not The Bear. No, chef! Not this yr.
