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Kimmel wins the prize as cheeky, easygoing Emmy host

“Park Bench With Steve Buscemi”, featuring the part-time Ulster County resident, won the Emmy for Outstanding Short Form Variety Series.

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Much lauded: It was Smith’s third supporting actress win at the Emmys for her portrayal of Dowager Countess Violet Crawley in the drama Downton Abbey, pictured.

Is it too late to make Jimmy Kimmel the host of next year’s Oscars – and, while we’re at it, the Grammys, Tonys and VMAs?

“She goes to other award shows”.

Kimmel introducing Emmy nominee Sarah Paulson’s date Marcia Clark: “Everyone in LA knows that if you want to win, sit next to Marcia Clark”.

Under Kimmel’s leadership, the glitterati in the audience got a snack break as the kids from Netflix’s “Stranger Things” delivered peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwiches Kimmel said were prepared by his mother, who was seen in a remote kitchen hard at work.

In a video of Kimmel’s attempt to reach the award show, he hops into a limo when he discovers that Bush is “in between jobs” as a driver.

“Parts Unknown”, featuring the former Vassar College student who graduated from the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, won the Emmy for Outstanding Informational Series or Special.

Mom, Dad, I know I just thanked you, but you need to be escorted out right now, I’m so sorry.

She’s treating us like the People’s Choice Awards. “I play a young man who is, I think, like so many of us, profoundly alienated”, he told the crowd. But is she here in this audience tonight?

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Kimmel’s best Trump slam blamed Celebrity Apprentice producer Mark Burnett for Trump scoring the presidential nomination. He even let himself be made the butt of a joke, as Matt Damon came out to mock him for losing to John Oliver in the talk show category. So I certainly do promise to rebuild that wall and make Mexico pay for it. Cuba Gooding Jr. read aloud one that said, “I loved you in Snow Dogs”. “And I’m so glad that he liked “Veep” because his opinion was the one that really mattered”. I mean, are you rooting for O.J.to win this time?

Jimmy Kimmel Host of Emmy's 68th