The Emmy Awards on Sunday night gave a boatload of awards to just a couple of shows: The Studio in the comedy categories, and Adolescence in the limited series categories. The Pitt took home the top prize in the drama category, but it wasn’t all a three-show parade. We’ve got a few takeaways from a night that was a real mixed bag.

It was not a good telecast

In a long opening bit, host Nate Bargatze made a series of jokes about television, all about how The Learning Channel doesn’t have learning anymore and The History Channel has shows about aliens. (It is not your imagination; these are very stale jokes.) Then Stephen Colbert gave out the first award, to Seth Rogen for The Studio , and then Bargatze introduced his disastrous evening-long bit by taking several boring minutes to c

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