1. Stephen Colbert’s opening monologue was a musical number about how horrific the news is these days – sung while moving through all your favourite TV shows. Chance the Rapper popped up with a bit of rap halfway through too
2. At the ceremony itself, Alexander Skarsgård shifted Nicole Kidman while her husband Keith Urban watched on
“This is grand.”
Skarsgard won outstanding supporting actor in a limited series or movie for his role in Big Little Lies. Accidental lip contact? Probably.
3. Donald Glover made history
He also won writing and acting Emmys for his work on Atlanta.
4. Nicole Kidman delivered a powerful speech about domestic abuse after her outstanding lead actress in a limited series win
5. “At long last, Mr. President, here is your Emmy” – Alec Baldwin won for his SNL Trump parody, and mentioned the man himself in his speech
6. Much has been made of Sean Spicer’s controversial appearance - here’s James Corden kissing him on the cheek for some reason
7. Master of None writer Lena Waithe had the best consecutive Instagram posts of the day
8. It’s Always Sunny’s Rob McElhenney did what we’d all do if we didn’t get an invite
9. Gabrielle Union and Dwayne Wade were on point
10. As were Felicity Huffman and William H Macy
11. The cast of Veep took their loss well
12. Emmy problems for Jessica Biel
13. Alison Janney took her nephew along for the craic
14. Little Miles Brown from Black-ish made his dad’s dreams come true
15. SNL producer Lindsay Shookus rocked up with her new boyfriend Ben Affleck – and she was part of the SNL team that won outstanding variety sketch series
Ben Affleck is here at the #Emmys accompanying his girlfriend, who is part of the SNL team pic.twitter.com/EFsnWI9UEP
— Scott Feinberg (@ScottFeinberg) September 18, 2017
If you can’t see the video, click here.
16. John Oliver won outstanding variety talk series – so Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert had some lines prepared
Deep burn:
It’s a dry British cocktail
Yes, it’s really good. So high quality apparently they can only make one a week
Mine has extra bitters in it
Reese Witherspoon appeared to mouth “roasted”:
Fair.
17. Julia Louis Dreyfus took another Emmy for outstanding lead actress in a comedy series – and added to the plethora of Trump jokes: “We did have a storyline on impeachment, but we abandoned that because we were worried that someone else might get to it first”
An eventful night, all things considered.
