LOS ANGELES (AP) — Nate Bargatze, the host of this year's Emmy Awards, Sunday with a string of jokes poking fun at the television industry.
The show opened with a sketch where “Saturday Night Live” stars Mikey Day, Bowen Yang and James Austin Johnson joined Bargatze, who played television inventor Philo T. Farnsworth. The audience was warm to Bargatze's jokes as he, while playing Farnsworth, opined on what the future of TV will be like.