Overview
- The 77th Primetime Emmys air Sunday, Sept. 14 at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT on CBS and stream live on Paramount+.
- Each acceptance speech gets 45 seconds, with $1,000 docked from Bargatze’s $100,000 pledge for every second over and $1,000 added for every second under.
- Children from Boys & Girls Clubs of America will be in the theater to underscore the incentive and its charitable target.
- Bargatze says he will keep his material clean and largely apolitical, favoring self-deprecating humor over mean-spirited jabs.
- He sought advice from Jimmy Kimmel, Conan O’Brien and Nikki Glaser, and says any nod to Stephen Colbert’s show cancellation would only be used if it isn’t hurtful.