Nate Bargatze opened the Emmys dressed as Philo T. Farnsworth, the inventor of television, in a sketch with “Saturday Night Live” stars Bowen Yang, Mikey Day and James Austin Johnson. The bit, set 100 years in the past, was a play on Bargatze’s famous “SNL” sketch “Washington’s Dream,” as the comedian make jokes that pointed out the absurdity of the contemporary television landscape.

As Yang, Day and Johnson tinkered with a prototype of a TV, Bargatze told them, “Do not get discouraged. What we create here will one day bring the world shows that inform and educate. Shows that make us laugh, and cry!”

Then, in a nod to the most-nominated show this year, “Severance,” Bargatze added, “And shows about people who, when they go to work, they switch to different people in their brains who on

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