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The 2025 Emmy Awards kicked off with a sketch celebrating “the most powerful medium ever created.”

First-time host Nate Bargatze teamed up with “Saturday Night Live” cast members Bowen Yang, Mikey Day and James Austin Johnson for the opening of the 77th Emmy Awards in a skit that imagined how television came to be. Bargatze portrayed Philo T. Farnsworth, the “visionary genius” who saw the potential of television’s future.

As Farnsworth, Bargatze waxed poetic about the medium that will “bring the world shows that inform and educate [and] shows that make us laugh and cry.” He went on to talk about the various channels he dreamed of that will exist for everyone’s interests, includ

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