Either it was a pretty predictable celebration of television or Stephen Colbert ’s audition tape or perhaps both, but the 77 th Primetime Emmys tonight sure ended up giving off a lot of Saturday Night Live midseason episode vibes.

From the opening creation of television skit with host Nate Bargatze joined by SNL ’s Bowen Yang, Mikey Day, and James Austin Johnson, the CBS -broadcast ceremony from the Peacock Theater was very much like the Peacock Network – – and not in a good way.

The starting skit had the repeated tagline of “nobody knows” from the viral NBC late nighter’s Bargatze fronted “Washington’s Dream” segments, which was funny the first time. However, after that, the recently CBS-pink slipped Colbert upstaged Bargatze by receiving the first standing ovation of

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