The first-time Emmy host opened with a sketch with Bargatze portraying television inventor Philo Farnsworth explaining the all-too-real and baffling ways the medium would be used in the future.
Flanked by SNL cast members Bowen Yang, Mikey Day and James Austin Johnson, the sketch was a variation on Bargatze’s beloved “Washington’s Dream” sketch from his debut hosting Saturday Night Live last year.
As Farnsworth, Bargatze told the celebrity-filled Peacock Theater audience in Los Angeles that streaming services would be “a new way for a company to lose money.”
He said there would be a network with content for Black audiences called BET — and one for white people called CBS.
He also explained how shows about murderers would be popular and be watched by “your wife, my wife,…
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