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When the Emmys go live Sept. 14 from the Peacock Theater, Nate Bargatze will take the stage in the dual role of first-time host and first-time nominee, for his Netflix special Your Friend, Nate Bargatze<\/em>. He will be following in the footsteps of Johnny Carson, who hosted the Emmys from 1971 to 1974 and was nominated three of those years, for The Tonight\u00a0Show<\/em>.<\/p>\n Back then, THR<\/em>\u2018s reviews of the awards broadcast were unsurprisingly effusive about the king of late night TV, calling him a \u201cwonderful host\u201d who \u201cpresided over the show with his usual charm and humor.\u201d After the 1974 ceremony \u2014 the last one he\u2019d ever MC \u2014 Carson went on the record calling to abolish competitive Emmys as they existed at the time, to be replaced with a more selective system akin to the Peabody Awards. \u201cYou don\u2019t say there\u2019s a category for drama, a category for comedy,\u201d Carson told THR<\/em>. \u201cIf Mary Tyler Moore deserves an Emmy, and she does, for her consistent quality, you give it to her. But you don\u2019t make her compete against Carol Burnett. If Carol Burnett also deserves one, you give one to her, also.\u201d<\/p>\n More from The Hollywood Reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n Carson went on to win four competitive Emmys, and in 1980, the Television Academy honored him with its third-ever Governors Award. Much like what he had advocated, the special award is given to those who have \u201cmade a profound, transformational and long-lasting contribution\u201d to television.<\/p>\n This story first appeared in an August stand-alone issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine. To receive the magazine,\u00a0click here to subscribe<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n Best of The Hollywood Reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n Sign up for THR’s Newsletter<\/a>. For the latest news, follow us on Facebook<\/a>, Twitter<\/a>, and Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When the Emmys go live Sept. 14 from the Peacock Theater, Nate Bargatze will take the stage in the dual role of first-time host and first-time nominee, for his Netflix special Your Friend, Nate Bargatze. He will be following in the footsteps of Johnny Carson, who hosted the Emmys from 1971 to 1974 and was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1969475,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[115552,349796,349795,333496,341106],"class_list":["post-1969474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-carol-burnett","tag-mary-tyler-moore","tag-nate-bargatze","tag-television-academy","tag-thr"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Johnny-Carsons-Emmy-Era-Host-Nominee-Critic.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1969474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1969474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1969474\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1969475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1969474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1969474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1969474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}