Nate Bargatze used his 2025 Emmy Awards opening to joke about the year’s biggest moments in television.

The comedian, 46, opened the Sunday, September 14, awards show — held at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles — a skit costarring Saturday Night Live standouts Bowen Yang, Mikey Day and James Austin Johnson.

“What we create here will one day bring the world shows that inform and education,” Bargatze said, playing a scientist. “Shows that make us laugh and cry, and shows about people who when they go to work, they switch to different people in their brains who only remember what happens at work. And people who watch it won’t either, but by God, it will be on TV! I dream that one day there will be a channel for every interest.”

He also dreamed that there would be TV networks for “every in

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