Despite being one of the biggest touring stand-ups in the world, it wasn’t until Nate Bargatze hosted SNL twice that he was given the opportunity to host a major awards show. It’s fitting, then, that Bargatze opened the 2025 Emmys on September 14 with a riff on “Washington’s Dream,” the viral SNL sketch responsible for raising his public profile another notch. In the sketch, co-starring SNL ’s Bowen Yang, James Austin Johnson, and Mikey Day, Bargatze plays the inventor of television, making bold pronouncements about what his pioneering device will lead to while fielding questions from his confused colleagues. But the premise is more or less an excuse to make monologue jokes, which Bargatze did about everything from Severance ’s confusing story line to the decidedly noneducation

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