Comedian Nate Bargatze sold more than 1.2 million tickets to his "The Be Funny Tour" last year, making him the highest-grossing comedian in the country. Now, he's taking on a new challenge: Hosting the 77th Emmy Awards on CBS.

"This is the first I'm thinking about it, was this week," the 46-year-old jokingly said about his preparation for Sunday's show.

He described his comedy style, saying while there will be jokes about the shows, it will be done "in a way that is not mean."

"I was like trying to think of like how, which way you want to go and it's like … even we've had stuff written that I think was a little more roast stuff and then it's like after you think about it a couple of days, I'm like 'nah let's go back another way.' We have some fun stuff though that's planned," Bargatze t

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