Kenan Thompson made audiences laugh at the history of primetime television while hosting the Primetime Emmy Awards on Monday night.
“I, Mayor of Television, Kenan Thompson!” He said, at the opening of the show. “TV is more than just a way to make a living. It’s also how our clients make a living!”
He continued, “Tonight we gather together to honor the greatest invention in human history.” “If it wasn’t for TV, what would we do in our spare time? Read books? No one in this room has read a book in the last 50 years. Watching Tik Tok? You mean small vertical TV? Do you have sex? Gross! TV is all we have.” , from “Netflix and chill” to “Paramount + and dine alone.”
“And what sound fills us with more joy and anticipation than the familiar opening flick of legally licensed television? We have always been able to sing to them but have not been able to dance to them… until now.”
Then, a group of dancers joined Thompson on stage to dance to the tunes of a remix of “Friends,” “The Brady Bunch,” “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit,” “Stranger Things,” and “Game of Thrones.” After the ‘Friends’ part of the boogie dance, he joked, “Hey, have you ever seen ‘Bachelorette Live’? I really think you’ll love it!”‘—noting the many similarities between ‘Friends’ and the Queen Latifah-led sitcom, which aired for the first time.
In his monologue, he joked about some of the more subtle dramas of 2022—and the less-used platforms of the TV scene: “”Better Call Saul” was hard to watch because it was so scary. It was hard to watch “Squid” because it was so violent. It’s hard to watch “Yellowjackets” because it was on Showtime.”
He also noted that Zendaya, who is the main Emmy nominee for “Euphoria”, turned 26 recently. “26 is a strange age in Hollywood. You are young enough to play a high school student, but too old to date Leonardo DiCaprio.”
Thompson is best known for being the longest-running cast member on “Saturday Night Live”, making his first appearance on the series in 2003. His work on “SNL” has earned him nominations for Supporting Comedy Actor Emmy in 2018, 2020, and 2021, as well as original music and Emmy lyrics in 2017 and 2018. He won a Music and Lyrics Award in 2018 along with Eli Brueggemann, Chris Redd and Will Stephen for the song “Come Back Barack” performed with Chance the Rapper.
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