Winning an Emmy ought, under normal circumstances, to be the high point of an actor’s career.

For all the artists who won at this year’s Emmy ceremony, it was a moment they’ll remember for having been policed in the most sanctimonious and irritating manner possible.

Nate Bargatze , the ceremony’s disastrous host, set forth that he had set up a $100,000 pool of money to donate to the unimpeachable nonprofit the Boys & Girls Club. Money would be deducted from this pool, moment-by-moment, if a winner went over 45 seconds — and money would be added if they came in under time. (Bargatze brought real children, announced as beneficiaries of the Boys & Girls Club, to the ceremony, and they were super cute! They came to feel, though, more and more like props in the proceedings — supremely unfair

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