Don’t tune into tonight’s 2025 Primetime Emmy Awards on CBS anticipating any political commentary from host Nate Bargatze. The comic says he’s avoiding hot-button subjects as he emcees the awards present.
Through the Emmys press preview on Thursday, Leisure Weekly requested Bargatze how political this yr’s Emmys would get, to which he stated, “Not. Under no circumstances.”
Bargatze elaborated, saying, “I do know there’s heartbreaking stuff that’s been taking place proper now, however I would like this evening to be an escape, and I feel that’s why I used to be introduced on. I feel lots of people are watching — and I do know they watch my stand-up — for that cause, so I don’t need to break that belief I’ve in them, and simply make the evening a enjoyable evening.”
The Emmys come simply days after the killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk at a Utah Valley College occasion, an incident that kicked off a political firestorm, particularly on cable information. However Bargatze stated 2025 Emmys joke writers “had been by no means actually going to do something [political] to start with” for the present.
“It was simply attempting to remain within the lane that we’re in,” he stated. “I’m not above something. It’s past me. It’s like, the saddest factor on this planet. So let this evening simply be this evening, and , all people has to emphasize all day lengthy, so I need to be simply that one escape once they can flip one thing on and hopefully loosen up and simply have enjoyable.”
In reality, Bargatze’s inoffensive model of comedy — The Atlantic known as him “the nicest man in stand-up” — appears to have gotten him employed for the Emmys gig within the first place.
“At a time when a lot comedy is polarizing — half the nation loves it, half the nation hates it — you’ve this genius in Nate, who’s simply attempting to deliver us all collectively,” CBS CEO George Cheeks, a longtime Bargatze fan, instructed The Hollywood Reporter for a current profile of this yr’s Emmys host. “He’s not preachy, he’s not didactic, he’s simply human — and to me, there’s nothing extra refreshing.”
77th Primetime Emmy Awards, Sunday, September 14, 8/7c, CBS and Paramount+