The “Jimmy Kimmel Live” host unveiled a reel of such screw-ups Monday night back on his own talk show, when he barely had a voice left.
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Jimmy Kimmel (L) accepts the award for Outstanding Supporting Actress In A Drama Series on behalf of Maggie Smith for “Downton Abbey” and says she has to pick it up in the lost and found. The night also saw a few big upsets in the supporting actors drama category, as Ben Mendelsohn won for Bloodline and Maggie Smith won for the final season of Downton Abbey.
On Sunday, comedic bits were weaved into the show, with host Jimmy Kimmel making himself the butt of the most hilarious joke of the evening.
Actress Julia Louis-Dreyfus, accepting her fifth consecutive best actress Emmy for Veep, jokingly lamented that real politics was beginning to resemble the Washington world her comedy series pokes fun at. I feel the Emmys have been overly gracious to me.
Viewership for the 68th Emmy Awards fell slightly to a new ratings low as “Sunday Night Football” and a JonBené t Ramsey documentary on CBS chipped away at ABC’s broadcast of the television industry’s awards ceremony.
LOS ANGELES | The 68th Primetime Emmy Awards, which recognize the best in U.S. television, drew in a record low 11.3 million viewers, according to preliminary data released by Nielsen on Monday.
When Burnett won as producer for “The Voice”, Kimmel joked that the show’s judges Miley Cyrus and Alicia Keys would be the country’s “next Supreme Court justices”.
Rami Malek won the Outstanding Actor for a Drama Series award for his role in “Mr. Robot”. However, not very much appreciated in the past years. She showed up at the Oscars to get an Oscar. She is the second female SNL cast member to win an Emmy for her work on the show after Gilda Radner in 1978. But is she here in this audience tonight? What is wrong with us?
“I have a message for you, Lame Maggie Smith, if you’re even bothering to watch”, he said.
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One of the most hilarious moments of the evening consisted in him jumping off stage and handing an Emmy to Jeffrey Tambor, victor of Best Actor in a Comedy Series for “Transparent”.
