A Nate Bartgatze Joke So Bad the Reference Went Unnoticed

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I’m not going to harp on Nate Bargatze’s bad hosting job at last night’s Emmys all day — last post, I promise (probably!) — because the entire Internet seems to be beating him up today over the awful Boys & Girls Club donation bit. As I wrote in my write-up this morning, it was the only bit he had in the entire show .

That apparently wasn’t true. There was another joke he tried, but until this interview with Variety , I had no idea it was supposed to be a joke. Watch the first 35 seconds here.

The pertinent section: “I have a blue-jean tux on for some reason. We had, like, a joke. There’s a cummerbund, and I forgot what it is. I don’t know. Alright. Please welcome two-time Emmy nominee,

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