Emmys host Nate Bargatze issued a challenge to award winners on TV’s big night:

Stick to 45-second speeches, or you’ll pay.

That payment would come in the form of thousands of dollars of money subtracted from a charitable donation to the Boys & Girls Clubs of America .

“If you wanna do more than that, do it on social media later,” Bargatze advised Emmys nominees. “More people are gonna see it there anyway.”

Bargatze explained to the assembled celebrities and TV talents at the 77th Emmy Awards that he was planning to make a $100,000 donation to the Boys & Girls Club. (See the setup in Bargatze’s opening monologue below.)

But for every second that Emmy winners went over the 45-second mark in their speeches, $1,000 would be deducted from that $100,000.

“That’s tough,” Bargatze s

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