Host Nate Bargatze opened the broadcast with an old-timey sketch spoofing the creation of the television set, in which he played an exaggerated version of real-life inventor Philo Farnsworth.
On a Frankenstein-esque laboratory set, Bargatze, flanked by “Saturday Night Live” players Bowen Yang and Mikey Day, predicted how a crude little box would come to captivate billions of viewers around the world. One of the “SNL” boys asked who would make the programming. Bargatze responded: “Actors, writers, directors and, most importantly, producers.” Day followed up, “And what does the producer do, sir?”
Bargatze stared into the camera and deadpanned, “Nobody knows!”
The punchline got a big laugh, as it has for decades when Hollywood feigns ignorance about the role of capital-p Producers. And yet the entertainment industry runs on their passion and drive.
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