Emmy producers on Nate Bargatze, Boys & Girls Club -Donations

If you look at the length of this year’s Emmy Awards at least, the running gag on Sunday evening about the Boys & Girls Clubs was a success. That is the word of Jesse Collins Entertainment producers Jesse Collins, Dionne Harmon and Jennae Rouzan-Clay, who all spoke with reports just a few minutes after the show was wrapped in the Peacock Theater in the center of Los Angeles.

“The show wasn’t that long, so it worked,” said Rouzan-Clay-en She is not wrong, the Emmy ended around 20:02 pt/11: 02 pm et. At one point during the show, the winners were so good to keep their speeches short that the Emmy’s actually fall short.

“Halfway we floated around, just like a minute to two minutes past, and then it started to spread a bit,” Collins said. “It was just a bit of ebed and flowed all night.”

The idea of ​​bringing the Boys & Girls clubs in the Emmy -Mix came from host Nate Bargatze, and from there the Emmy’s were all in it. The idea: Bargatze would start the night by pony pony for charity. And then he would deduct $ 1,000 for each second speeches went long and added $ 1,000 for every second winners who ended before the 45 seconds for thanks. By the end of the night the shortage was huge – but CBS still contributed $ 100,000, with another $ 250,000 from Bargatze itself.

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

At the beginning of the evening, the winners took on Bargatze’s plan to pay attention and keep their speeches relatively short; Finally, by later in the evening, you thank more and promised people on stage simply adding their own money to the pot. “I felt that most people spoke from the heart, and the people with longer speeches still had longer speeches, and the people who had shorter, made it a little moments, or maybe it was because they won several times,” Harmon said. “But I didn’t get the feeling that someone was holding something … There was a balance.”

Here are some of the other burning questions of Emmy’s from Sunday evening:

Eric Dane stopped as a presenter at the last minute and wrote the plans of the producers for a reference to the 20^one Birthday of “Gray’s Anatomy.”

As originally announced, DANE and colleague “Gray’s Anatomy” Alum Jesse Williams would present the Emmy to direct a drama series together. But Dane, who announced in April that he was diagnosed with him, could not be present.

“I don’t know the details,” Collins said. “I was just told that he couldn’t make it. And luckily Jesse could present himself.”

The original plan for Dane and Williams was not extensive; They just started acknowledging the ‘grey’s’ anniversary. Without DANE, the producers decided to delete the reference. “However, there was no set or something,” said Rouzan-Clay. “It was just a party with the two of them.”

The opening “Philo T. Farnsworth” sketch, reminiscent of Bargatze’s “George Washington” Skits on “Saturday Night Live”, was written by Mikey Day of the Show and Streeter Seidell. Given the “SNL “ness of it (cast members day, James Austin Johnson and Bowen Yang with Bargatze appeared, it was also approved by” SNL “Exec producer Lorne Michaels.

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

After the sketch was made, the decision was made not to have Bargatze a traditional monologue opener.

“Once we were locked up on the sketch that became the monologue,” Collins said. “Then he was character. He was not Nate at the time. So then it was a quick change after the price, and then it was more of a welcome in the show.”

Harmon added: “And explain the piece of Boys & Girls Club piece.”

There were no large set pieces or segments that were canceled this year before time.

“Nate had some things that were in his back pocket that he did not use,” Collins said. “But I think those were more creative choices.”

Bargatze’s denim joke – told during the introduction of presenter Sydney Sweeney – was indeed a reference to the recent controversy about her American Eagle Denim campaign.

“Yes, that was his joke for that,” Collins confirmed.

Stephen Colbert was chosen as the first presenter of the Night – handing out the protagonist in a comedy Emmy – to show off the show off with a powerful moment. And it worked: the entire Peacock theater gave Colbert a standing ovation.

“He deserved that,” said Harmon. Collins added: “We all had the feeling that it was a moment for him to walk on that stage, to be the first prize. And we were just happy that he was willing to do it. We had the feeling that it would be a moment.”

And Rouzan-Clay said it was “a nice wrap-around at the end”, when Colbert gave an exciting speech as the winner of the talk show.

This year’s Emmys also opened the main actress with two big prizes -immediately after Colbert and the Comedy Lead Actor category, Jennifer Coolidge in a comedy series Emmy.

“We wanted to give Colbert a price with some weight, and then Jen Coolidge, and just as we had such great presenters, let’s do it,” Collins said. Added

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

The Jesse Collins Entertainment team admits that it was a bit unusual to produce the Emmy’s when they were ready for Variety Special (live) with two nominations (for “Beyoncé Bowl” and the Super Bowl -rest time).

“It is interesting if you are for something and it is live, and you are sitting there, such as:” What will happen? “” Harmon said.

The category of course eventually went to “SNL50: The Anniversary Special.” “Lorne Michaels is of course an icon,” Collins said. “What he did with ‘SNL’, it is a great end to the ‘SNL 50’ story.”

The publicist of Beyoncé was in the audience, but it was never entirely clear whether Beyoncé and Jay-Z themselves would attend the Emmys.

“We discovered it when they were not on the seats,” Collins said. “Oh, you’re not coming!”

This year’s mix of reunions and tribute began to secure a segment dedicated to ‘The Golden Girls’.

“We led with ‘Golden Girls’,” said Rouzan-Clay. “That was a big one. As soon as we realized that it was 40 years old on the day the show came up, we knew that we had to do ‘Golden Girls’. And I think ‘law and order’ was actually the last one to come together.

Reba Mentire, who led the Singalong of the theme song ‘The Golden Girls’, suggested bringing Karen Fairchild and Kimberly Schlapman from Little Big Town.

“The thing about that song is that it is a country number, and we had a lot of help from Reba in casting,” Collins “told” Entertainment Tonight “. “And she loves those ladies. And we had something like that, let’s just use the trio.”

The tribute “survivor” contained real props of the show, courtesy host Jeff Probst.

“Jeff gave us props!” Collins said. However, the recesses of Michaels and John Oliver, as part of a ‘tribal council’ for those who would win the Scripted Variety category, was a surprise for both contenders. “We started to rag, only on that,” said Rouzan-Clay. Collins added: “We are just like, let’s just roll. Let’s not ask. We apologize afterwards!”

Harmon was only a few hours before the Emmys in the Vatican and produced the live concert event ‘Grace for the World’ for Disney+ on St. Peter’s Square co -directed by Pharrell Williams and Andrea Bocelli.

“It was on Disney+and the first concert ever on St. Peter’s Square in the Vatican,” said Harmon. “We had John Legend, Andrea Bocelli, Pharrell, Jennifer Hudson, a lot of people. The large part was the drones. There were 3000 drones over the Vatican. It is a real, really incredible show. We arrived the next morning, landed here and came here immediately.

Collins and Company will not find out for a while whether they will be back to produce the Emmys for a fourth consecutive time – next year on NBC.

“They usually take meetings in the spring,” Collins said. “So then we would go inside and make our pitch.”

Jesse Collins Entertainment will then again be part of the Super Bowl -Halftime show -producing team. But no, they are not ready to share details – even if Taylor Swift is indeed the performer.

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