When the Emmys go live Sept. 14 from the Peacock Theater, Nate Bargatze will take the stage in the dual role of first-time host and first-time nominee, for his Netflix special Your Friend, Nate Bargatze . He will be following in the footsteps of Johnny Carson , who hosted the Emmys from 1971 to 1974 and was nominated three of those years, for The Tonight Show .

Back then, THR ‘s reviews of the awards broadcast were unsurprisingly effusive about the king of late night TV, calling him a “wonderful host” who “presided over the show with his usual charm and humor.” After the 1974 ceremony — the last one he’d ever MC — Carson went on the record calling to abolish competitive Emmys as they existed at the time, to be replaced with a more selective system akin to the Peabody Awards. “Yo

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