Nate Bargatze opened the 2025 Emmy Awards with a throwback to his most popular “Saturday Night Live” sketch.

The stand-up comedian, 46, played the inventor of television, Philo T. Farnsworth, in a new take on his past “SNL” skit where he played George Washington.

This time, he was joined by “SNL” stars Bowen Yang, Mikey Day and Austin Johnson, following the show’s Season 51 cast shakeup , and they mocked the state of television.

Bargatze joked that streaming is “a new way for companies to lose money” with stars that mostly feature “murderers, real-life murderers mostly.”

Bargatze took jabs at some of the nominated shows, including “Severance,” saying, “It’s shows about people, who when they go to work, they switch to different people in their brains who only remember what happens a

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