It is not Saturday night, and the 2025 Primetime Emmy Awards aren’t taking place live from New York, but there were still some major Saturday Night Live vibes in the cold open for the awards show on Sunday (September 14) night.

This year’s Emmys host, Nate Bargatze , recruited SNL stars Mikey Day , Bowen Yang , and James Austin Johnson to help him with a “Washington’s Dream” circa Season 49 -style sketch about the conceptualization of television that took shots at certain networks, along with the state of television as a whole, to begin the show on a funny note.

“I dream that one day, there’ll be a channel for every interest. A travel channel for travel, a food channel for food, and a history channel for history — no, aliens,” Bargartze said in a period-style monologue.

“The

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