Hooray, Abbott Elementary!
Yay, Squid Game!
Dance numbers, noooooooo!
Emmys 2022 host Kenan Thompson performs a musical number.Kevin Winter/Getty Images
“That’s the Game of Thrones, bitches!”
declared hostKenan Thompson, closing out the unfunny choreography in a Daenerys wig.
“Put a little Ice-T in your lemonade.”
Kenan Thompson hosts the Emmy Awards 2022.PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images
All awards shows are too much lately.
Nothing is ever just an auditorium.
The big concept here was SCREENS, as in NEVER TOO MANY SCREENS.
Host Kenan Thompson dances during the 74th Emmy Awards.Kevin Winter/Getty Images
I lost count of all the stages people spoke from.
Some winners would be thanking 10 people while anonscreen chyronwould show 13 other people they wanted to thank.
Those chyrons are bad, all new ideas about speeches are bad, let speeches be speeches!
The de facto Emmys mood is triumphalist lately, which is a tad delusional given the evaporating viewership.
Some amazing shows and wonderful artists won on Monday, but the TV Academy always overstretches.
Two montages celebrated Doctor Shows and Police Shows, coincidentally all Shows That Barely Get Nominated Anymore.
and “Here are two cops no one wants to see defunded!”
Bart prank-called Moe about Botox:Ay caramba!
She set the gadget on his stomach and itthudded off him onto the floor.
That’s a perfect mockumentary visual gag Brunson conjured on the fly.
Some people are just in the zone.
I really thoughtAbbottwould pull out Best Comedy.
But who is the dreamer?"
IfTed Lassocan embed David Lynch arcana into the Emmys, I guess that damned show reallycando anything.
(Respectfully, no table looked more fun than theYellowjacketstable.)
The funniest moment came whenVanessa BayerandMolly Shannonpresented the Emmy for Outstanding Directing in a Comedy Series.
you’re free to’t blame her.
There have to be stormtrooper jokes becauseStar Warsis TV now.
There has to be a viral-baitingFriendsgag, becauseFriendsseems to be the one referenceeveryonedefinitely understands.
Considering how vibrant the current TV scene is, all the nostalgia felt like time poorly spent.
Maybe theChristopher Meloni-Mariska Hargitaynear-kiss did it for you.
This SNICK kid got at least half a thrill from Kel Mitchell ordering aGood Burgerwith Kenan.
Lame skits, dead-air laugh lines, a brutal speech clock for everyone besidesMichael Keaton?
