If life was fair, the Boys & Girls Clubs of America would owe Nate Bargatze a lot of money right now. The Emmys host kicked off the 77th annual TV awards ceremony on Sunday night with a contest for the charity; it aimed to prevent the live broadcast from running into overtime due to long-winded acceptance speeches. He started with a pledge of $100,000 to the nonprofit after-school group, and promised to add another grand for every second that winners remained under their 45-second speech allotment. But—for every second they went over that limit, he would subtract $1,000.

By the end of the broadcast, when The Studio was collecting its best comedy series award, the fluctuating fundraiser stood at negative $60,000 . Nice going, TV industry elites. There were a few more awards to give

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