Emmy producers on Nate Bargatze, donations of boys and girls clubs

If you are looking at at least the duration of this year’s Emmy Awards, the Sunday evening race gag on boys and girls clubs was a success. This is the word of entertainment producers Jesse Collins Jesse Collins, Dionne Harmon and Jennae Rouzan-Clay, who all spoke with reports a few minutes after the enveloped show at the Peacock theater in downtown Los Angeles.

“The show was not so long, so it worked,” said Rouzan -Clay – and she’s not wrong, the Emmys ended around 8:02 p.m. PT / 11:00 HE. At one point in the show, the winners were so good to join their short speeches that the Emmys were really short.

“Halfway, we planted just like a minute to two minutes, then he just started to spread a little,” said Collins. “It was just a little reflected and sunk all night.”

The idea of ​​bringing the boys and girls clubs to the mixture of Emmy came from the host Nate Bargatze, and from there, the Emmy were all. And then, he subtracts $ 1,000 for each second speech went long – and added $ 1,000 for each second winner finished before the end of the 45 -second period for you. At the end of the night, the deficit was enormous – but CBS has always contributed to $ 100,000, with an additional $ 250,000 of Bargatze itself.

“I think it worked well,” said Collins. “I mean, look, they came while waiting for $ 100,000 and they ended with $ 350,000. So, I think he was a win-win for the Boys & Girls Club. ”

At the beginning of the evening, the winners took the Bargatze plan to take into account and keep their relatively short speeches; Finally, later in the evening, these thanks went to you longer and people on stage simply promised to add their own money to the pot. “I had the impression that most people were talking about the heart, and people who had longer speeches still had longer speeches, and people who had shorter moments made moments, or maybe it was because they won several times,” said Harmon. “But I did not have the impression that someone kept something because of that … There was a balance.”

Here are some of the other burning questions of the EMMYS on Sunday evening:

Eric Dane abandoned as a presenter at the last minute, deleting the producers’ plans for a reference to 20^th Anniversary of “Gray’s Anatomy”.

As originally announced, Dane and his colleague “Gray’s Anatomy” Alun Jesse Williams had to present the Emmy to direct a dramatic series together. But Dane, who announced in April that he had received a diagnosis of SLA, was not able to attend.

“I don’t know the details of this,” said Collins. “I was just told that he couldn’t get there. Fortunately, Jesse was able to present by himself. ”

The original plan for Dane and Williams was not developed; They were just going to recognize the anniversary of “Gray”. Without dune, the producers decided to delete the reference. “There was no set or anything, however,” said Rouzan-Clay. “It was just a celebration with both.”

The opening of “Philo T. Farnsworth”, recalling the sketchs “George Washington” by Bargatze on “Saturday Night Live”, was written by Mikey Day of the show and Streeter Seidell. Given the “SNL” -Seth (actors’ day, James Austin Johnson and Bowen Yang appeared with Bargatze), he was also approved by the executive producer “SNL” Lorne Michaels.

The sketch met “probably three, four weeks,” said Collins. “It was great to be able to do that. And Lorne blessed him so that we can do it. We loved the flip on it, the tone of George Washington, but the way they did it was brilliant.

After the creation of the sketch, the decision was made not to make Bargatze make a traditional open-monologist.

“Once we have locked the sketch that has become the monologue,” said Collins. “Then he was of character. He was not nate at that time. So it was a quick change after the price, then it was more welcome in the show.”

Addition of Harmon: “And explaining the play of the club of boys and girls.”

There were no major parts or segments that were rebuilt for time this year.

“Nate had stuff that was in her back pocket he ended up not using,” said Collins. “But I think they are more creative choices.”

The jeans joke of Bargatze – told during the presentation of the presenter Sydney Sweeney – was indeed a reference to the recent controversy on his American Denim Eagle campaign.

“Yes, it was his joke on this subject,” confirmed Collins.

Stephen Colbert was chosen as the first presenter of the night – by distributing the main actor in an Emmy comedy – to launch the show with a powerful moment. And that worked: the whole Peacock Theater gave Colbert a standing ovation.

“He deserved it,” said Harmon. Collins added: “We all felt like it was a moment for him to go out on this scene, to be the first prize. And we were just happy that he was ready to do it. We had the impression that it would be a moment.”

And Rouzan-Clay said that it was “a beautiful envelope at the end”, when Colbert delivered an exciting speech as the winner of the talk show.

The Emmys of this year also opened with two Grands Prix – just after Colbert and the main actor category of the comedy, Jennifer Coolidge distributed the main actress in a series of comedy Emmy.

“We wanted to give him a price to Colbert with a little weight, then Jen Coolidge, and just as we had such great presenters that we were, do it,” said Collins. Added

Rouzan-Clay: “You also want to keep your audience intrigued and also committed from the start and everywhere. So you don’t want to load it or have at the back.”

Jesse Collins’ entertainment team admits that it was a bit unusual to produce Emmys when they were ready for Variety Special (Live) with two nominations (for “Beyoncé Bowl” and the Super Bowl at half-time).

“It’s interesting when you are ready for something and it’s live, and you sit there, like” what will happen? “” Said Harmon.

The category, of course, finally went to “SNL50: The Anniversary Special”. “Lorne Michaels is an icon, of course,” said Collins. “What he did with” SNL “is an excellent end of the story” SNL 50 “.”

Beyoncé’s publicist was in the audience, but he was never quite clear if Beyoncé and Jay-Z would attend the Emmys themselves.

“We understood when they were not in the seats,” said Collins. “” Oh, you don’t come! “”

The mixture of reunion and tribute this year began by securing a segment dedicated to “The Golden Girls”.

“We led with” Golden Girls “, said Rouzan-Clay. “It was a big problem. As soon as we realized that it was 40 years for the day the show took place, we knew that we had to make “Golden Girls”. And I think that “order” was actually the last to come together.

REBA MCENTIRE, who directed the theme song of “The Golden Girls”, suggested bringing Karen FAIRCHild and Kimberly Schlapman from Little Big Town.

“The thing about this song is that it’s a country song, and we had a lot of help from Reba on the cast,” Collins told “Entertainment Tonight”. “And she loves these ladies. And we were like, simply use the trio. “

The “Survivor” tribute presented real accessories from the show, the courtesy of courtesy Jeff Probst.

“Jeff gave us accessories!” Said Collins. The cutouts of Michaels and John Oliver, as part of a “tribal council” for those who would win the category of scripted varieties, was however a surprise for the two contenders. “We have become thugs, just on that one,” said Rouzan-Clay. Adding Collins: “We are like, ride.

Harmon was at the Vatican a few hours before the Emmys, producing the live concert event “Grace for the World” for Disney + to St. Peter’s Square co-produced by Pharrell Williams and Andrea Bocelli.

“It was on Disney +, and the first concert of never on the Place Saint-Pierre at the Vatican,” said Harmon. “We had John Legend, Andrea Bocelli, Pharrell, Jennifer Hudson, a ton of people. The large part was drones. There were 3000 drones above the Vatican. It’s a really, really incredible show. We are doing very well on a plane tonight. ”

Collins and Company will not discover for a while if they will be back to produce the EMMYS for the fourth consecutive time – next year on NBC.

“Usually they take meetings in the spring,” said Collins. “It was then that we were going and made our argument.”

Then, Jesse Collins Entertainment will once again be part of the Super Bowl production team at halftime. But no, they are not ready to share details – including if Taylor Swift could indeed be the interpreter.

“I don’t even know who plays!” Collins joked.