At Emmy’s 2025, host Nate Bargatze delivered what quickly became a notorious piece from an affordable. It is enough to say, things did not go exactly how he planned – especially when it came to his own $ 250,000 donation to Boys & Girls Club.
When it comes to what Bargatze said he could have explained the rules a little better.
“I almost sent an E -mail,” he said on his “Nateland” podcast on Wednesday when discussing the price exhibition.
The unsent email ended up costing the comic-friend-Emmys host hundreds of thousands of dollars in the fall of a failed host. At the beginning of the night, Bargatze announced that he promised $ 100,000 to Boys & Girls Club of America. For every second, an acceptance number went over 45 seconds, but the host said he would take $ 1,000 from the pot, while every second would add $ 1,000 every second.
“They ask you to come up with a way to get everyone going shorter. Comics, I don’t think, is good to ask it, because I will try to really find a solution,” Bargatze said. “CBS was amazing. They loved it. But who, some of the people who talked about it, you go,” okay, so don’t find a solution. “As if you want to go,” you don’t want any of this tangled with.
“You go,” I found the most effective way to handle it, “Bargatzes Co-Host Aaron Weber joked.
However, the bit did not go to plane. While some speakers – especially early in the night – felt the pressure on the ticking clock, the pot began to decrease as the night went. Not even the presence of young children from the Boys & Girls Club could effectively shorten speech. At the end of the night, the donation was well in red, with Boys & Girls Club because of Emmys more than $ 50,000 at the end of the night. Bargatze and CBS swept in, with the comic promising $ 250,000 of their own money and the network adds the first $ 100,000.
“I thought it would be, you know, I don’t know, Netflix donation or Apple, you know? The series that won,” Bargatze said. “It’s not like I expected the child to give money-as I covered for that child-but it is, I thought that was what would happen. In my head I imagined it because they could then go long, but then be a hero. So it was like a win-win.”
The bit became a critical sore place on Emmys Night, with many reviews that at best called it a distracting element in the evening. Some audiences shook the truncated speeches from actors and creators finally received recognition on the Emmys scene. Gagen also raised the renewed complaint that although winners are always encouraged to speed through their speeches, presenter gags (which do not apply to Bargatz’s timer) to run out, often with unpleasant results.
However, Gagen was obviously not without its success. Weber said that Boys & Girls Club was “flooded” with donations, both from the Emmy ceremony itself and from the viewers at home.
“Many of the reviews did not like Boys & Girls Club,” said Bargatze. “It came from a real heart site. That was all I wanted. Everyone loved it. Everyone at home liked it. It was fun, it was entertaining to see money go down and all this. I thought it would be fun, I kind of, in my head, I did not try to make anyone in place, I did not try to make any donate, but in my head, I thought.”
Bargatze made it clear that he did not intend to overshadow speech, nor did he expect to let Boys & Girls Club go home empty. While he thinks that the night was overall successful, he noted that he might have helped the bit along.
“I don’t know if I just did not explain it enough in the room… They might know enough me, because they know me as a stand-up comedian, but I’m not around these people all the time. I don’t know it just know Came Out Another Way, But The Reasoning Was There. I Wasn’t Gonna Give That Money at the End. not. “
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