Perhaps a little bit lost among other story lines earlier this seek, comedian Nate Bargatze opened the Emmy Awards Sunday night dressed as Utah legend Philo T. Farnsworth.

The award show host introduced his Farnsworth character as “the inventor of television,” while wearing round wire-frame spectacles and a white lab coat — and poked fun and the quirks of modern television.

Farnsworth — nicknamed “the father of television” — was born near Beaver, Utah, in 1906, and studied at Brigham Young University for two years before dropping out. He is credited with producing the first all-electric television image, per Utah History Encyclopedia . At the time of his death, Farnsworth held over 300 patents in the U.S.

The sketch, set 100 years ago, was a play on Bargatze’s “Saturday Night Live” bi

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