Nate Bargatze’s Boys & Girls Club Emmys Bit Fell Flat and Was a Clumsy Exercise in Celebrity Humiliation

Winning an Emmy ought, under normal circumstances, to be the high point of an actor’s career.

For all the artists who won at this year’s Emmy ceremony, it was a moment they’ll remember for having been policed in the most sanctimonious and irritating manner possible.

Nate Bargatze, the ceremony’s disastrous host, set forth that he had set up a $100,000 pool of money to donate to the unimpeachable nonprofit the Boys & Girls Club. Money would be deducted from this pool, moment-by-moment, if a winner went over 45 seconds — and money would be added if they came in under time.