Late night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel is the host of the 68th Annual Primetime Emmys – but he didn’t take the most conventional route to the awards ceremony.
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Jeb Bush is ready to poke fun at his failed presidential bid and skewer his former rival Donald Trump.
He was apparently driving an Uber in the sketch. “If you run a positive campaign, the voters ultimately will make the right choice, Jimmy”, Bush said, alluding to his unsuccessful primary fights with Donald Trump, the Republican nominee.
Kimmel was then invited to sit up front with the driver, Bush, who quipped: “I’m in-between jobs right now”.
Some impressive comedic timing for Bush.
The 2016 Emmys began with the most groanworthy premise for an opening video imaginable, the “I’m late to the awards show” thing that was already exhausted when Jimmy Fallon did it back in 2005.
McKinnon, a tearful victor of a supporting actress award in comedy for her work on “Saturday Night Live“, thanked Clinton upon accepting.
Kimmel said the show would celebrate all the shows we’ll never get around to watching. While Kimmel assures the crowd Trump is not in the house (instead “he’s probably quietly rubbing up against his wife Melania while she pretends she is asleep”). The perennial victor for her role as the Dowager Countess on Downton Abbey seldom shows up for the ceremony, and Kimmel threatened her with a total revocation of her awards if she fails to come personally collect them.
“If Donald Trump gets elected and builds that wall, the first person we are throwing over it is Mark Burnett”. It worked, you sneaky little crumpet muncher. “If you’re a person of color – especially if you are a nominee – please find a white person”.
“Here to present the first award, which means they are that much closer to being black-ish-out drunk-ish…”
Kimmel saved some of his best material for, who else, Dame Maggie Smith.
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The Master of None writer/actor, who had just thanked his parents for his writing for a comedy series win earlier in the night, warned them they “need to be escorted out”.
