Overview

• Fey delivered the joke while presenting Outstanding Live Variety Special during Sunday’s Emmy telecast.
• She said, “If Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl halftime special wins I’m really going to hear it from Drake… and Drake and I are supposed to play pickleball tomorrow.”
• Reports described the line as landing with the room, drawing audible laughter from the audience.
• Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl Halftime Show lost the category to Saturday Night Live’s 50th Anniversary Special.
• Coverage emphasized that the bit invoked the ongoing Drake–Kendrick rivalry on a mainstream stage, and neither artist has publicly responded.