I really don’t want to bang on and on about the Emmys. Trust me, by the end of the day, you are going to be SICK OF IT. You won’t be able to read a blog or watch TV without being absolutely inundated with recaps and whatnot. But I did want to post Andy’s absolutely adorable opening song-and-dance number, because it was the highlight of my night. My week. MY LIFE. I fell in love with him all over again.
Via Rolling Stone:
Making his Emmy hosting debut, Samberg started things off with the musical number, in which he discovers how much good television he’s missed out on. (“So many shows, and so little time, I’m just a normal man, how can I possibly keep up?”) The star of Fox’s Brooklyn Nine-Nine then locks himself in a “viewing bunker” to catch up on every single show on TV, emerging months later with a Last Man on Earth beard and horrible smell in order to tell Jon Hamm and Kerry Washington all about his exploits. However, an encounter with Nathan Fillion opens his eyes to Castle, which sends Samberg back into the bunker for another 151 hours.
The song then transformed into a Les Miserables-inspired musical with Will Forte in the Javert role and Billy Eichner as Samberg’s son before the host impressively begins listing countless shows on television, fromBetter Call Saul and Homeland to Pawn Stars and Cajun Pawn Stars. The tune also spotlighted the staggering number of shows with “wives” in the title: Army Wives, Basketball Wives, The Good Wife, Sister Wives, Mob Wives, the entire Real Housewives oeuvre, just to name a few.
Watch the opening number, below. And the opening monologue after that
And check out Trey’s roundup of the evening’s biggest moments here.
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