We knew the 2020 Primetime Emmy Awards were going to be different, with celebrities basically Zooming into the show from all over the globe on Sunday. Telecast producers anticipated designer pajamas and outlandish at-home moments, and it’s fair to say their expectations were exceeded. It all puts The A.V. Club’s Emmys uniform of laundry-day knockarounds to shame.
Here are some of the best moments and fashions from the 72nd annual Emmys.
If you’re looking for a list of the winners or our liveblog commentary, we have that too.
The trophy presenters
Cavalcade Of Stars
Jennifer Aniston and Jimmy Kimmel
…realizing they didn’t actually put the fire out the first time and it’s not TV magic and they may burn the Staples Center down.
Catherine O’Hara
Eugene Levy
(and Dan Levy in a kilt, because of course.)
Tracee Ellis Ross
Jimmy Kimmel and Anthony Carrigan
Maybe combining all our 2020 elections fears in one entity, Anthony Carrigan channeled his Russian Barry character impersonating a mail carrier.
Zendaya
Annie Murphy
(And Dan Levy freaking out)
Alex Borstein
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel actress lost to Annie Murphy, but she won the nominee cam.
David Letterman
Gabrielle Union
Gabrielle Union apparently stopped on her way to the shower to stump for Insecure during the announcement of the nominees for Outstanding Comedy Series.
John Oliver
The Outstanding Variety Talk Series winner was awarded with a Jack-in-the-box surprise. What do you think the rest of the nominees will do with their empty boxes they now have?
Regina King
Reminder: It’s been 188 since Breonna Taylor was murdered.
Mark Ruffalo wins
Something tells us we wouldn’t have gotten that reaction from Mark Ruffalo’s wife, Sunrise Coigney, if they’d been in an arena surrounded by other people when he won Outstanding Lead Actor In A Movie. Maybe this remote ceremony is a good thing.
Randall Park and Isabelle the alpaca
“‘You’re presenting with an alpaca’ looks a lot like ‘You’re presenting with Al Pacino.’”
Reese Witherspoon and Kerry Washington
The Little Fires Everywhere crowd decided to give up on 2020.
Tatiana Maslany
During a video package of how celebs have been spending their quarantine, the Perry Mason star joked that she’s been making wine at home…and that it’s not good.
Mindy Kaling’s cross stitch
Same.
Bob Newhart
It’s always good to see Bob. 91, y’all.
David Spade as Joe Exotic
Take that, Nic Cage.
Tracey Ullman…we mean Morgan
The Oustanding Supporting Actress In A Limited Series or Movie nominees—with Tracy Morgan standing in for Tracey Ullman. “Us Trac(e)ys have to stick together,” he explained. Now we want to see Ullman do a 30 Rock reboot.
Cynthia Erivo
H.E.R.’s In Memoriam
Friends reunion
RuPaul Charles
The Jack-in-the-box bit worked even better when RuPaul Charles accepted the Outstanding Reality-Competition Program award.
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Welp. That’s 37 slides I’m not going to waste time clicking through.I get it, you want more clicks, but Jesus, could you just make it something we can choose to turn on and off?
Please stop doing slideshows.
Is…is this it? This is a new low even for slideshows (top tip – view on a phone or portrait oriented tablet, or make browser window narrow. This forces the slideshow to go into single page mode). “37 mostly context-free pictures hastily slapped together with barely any writing to explain why the author thought they were best”Also the stylesheet is terrible. A bunch of buttons don’t show up unless you hover over them for a start.
Yeah this is fucking awful. Even *with* the context it’s still painful. “Almost burns the staples center down”? In what way exactly? Oh it’s click bait.
This is staggeringly poor design.In both style and substance. I can’t imagine for the life of me that whatever few advertising dollars squeezed out of this antiquated, off-putting slideshow would be worth alienating any sentient being trying to engage with this site.I understand this is a venture that requires money to operate, but none of the decisions made since Silent Hill Partners bought this place feel like they’re even remotely in service of keeping this place vibrant and intact. It’s such an obvious parasitic venture capitalist siphon it just bums me out.
I would like to make my voice known and say I agree with @electric dragon. I first was looking at this on my phone and thought the text wasn’t loading properly. So, I’m now on my computer and see that my phone was working fine. There’s just very little explanation of why these images were the best moments at the Emmys.
It would be nice if the page worked, too. I thought it was
bad when I had to continually scroll down to read the caption, then up
to click ‘next slide’. But now I see that I can only view one comment
(or one comment plus a bit of the next one). Though I can pick whether I
see the most recent, least recent or most popular comment. Great.[and
it could be great if the ‘best moments’ weren’t things like a picture
of Oprah Winfrey and then the caption ‘Oprah Winfrey’. That’s not a
moment, that’s a stock photo. How about in future they pick particularly
interesting moments from the event they’re covering, and then write
brief explanations describing the moment and why it was great?Rather
than just give us a stock photo of someone who may or may not have been
in some unspecified way involved with the event somehow.]…and I had to reload the page twice in order for the “publish” button to show up for this post…
To add insult to injury, I can’t even get the images to show.
i made it all the way to Anthony Carrigan before I finally clicked the comments to see if some kind, pure soul has just told me if it was gonna keep being pointless. Thank you.
No.
Why?You mean, there’s a night where these people give awards to each other? And people watch it? Did they do anything really of note, or help their communities or the planet as a whole? I’m not understanding.
This is nothing. Over at Jezebel a writer was questioning Rob Reiner’s social-consciousness because he’s wealthy. So it’s style AND substance! So wishing AV Club could be scrumtrulescent again. Instead all the sites are riddled with CancerAids.
This is a case where the slideshow format works well, I think. It’s a visual recap of the event, not a discussion of its content.More slideshows in this context would be fine.
sad garbage :c these slide shows are ROUGH
This is so incredibly lazy. Seriously? A bunch of photos with no context or explanation? It’s basically just a list of actors who were at the Emmys.
Didn’t realize I’d switched AV Club to night mode. /s
This could have been accomplished with a simple article, but you guys know that. I hope this format is paying you guys more than the previous, otherwise it’s not worth it.
Emmys were terrible. They niggerized everything.
I actually clicked on this right after it was posted and yeeted myself the fuck right out immediately. I came back now to see if there were any comments. Big surprise, this cancerous format murdered any hopes of that.This is a goddamned tire fire. And why is it black??! I’m clicking to comment, the box is white, good god, this is a mess. I HATE it.I’ve been a regular visitor to this site for 13 years. Yes, really. No one knows my username (and wouldn’t recognize my original one) because I never felt the need to comment for 12/13 of those years. Most of the time I just enjoyed things, especially the comments. They were really the best on the internet. I wept from laughing so hard. The people back then were geniuses, truly. Y’all were getting free content, you didn’t even know it. (I think they did though.)It’s all been thrown away. I will never not be sad. I will never not grieve for the loss of this community. I don’t care if that makes me a dork. THIS USED TO BE THE PLACE FOR DORKS.Anyway, this terrible, seemingly purposefully anti-comment friendly slideshow just made me remember the depth of that loss again, a little bit. The last five years have sucked big time. That’s all. Please try harder.
The design of this page is broken on my end, and i can’t read the comments
Please stop publishing slideshows until you can consistently make the entire comments section appear under them instead of just an excerpt of the top comment.