{"id":149270,"date":"2025-09-17T00:57:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T00:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/149270\/"},"modified":"2025-09-17T00:57:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T00:57:07","slug":"the-sydney-sweeney-bit-at-the-emmys-that-everyone-missed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/149270\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sydney Sweeney Bit at the Emmys That Everyone Missed"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tIf sense of humor is genetic, then Nate Bargatze<\/a>\u2019s got great genes.<\/p>\n

\n\tBargatze was not at his peak hosting Sunday\u2019s Emmy Awards<\/a>, but even a bad Bargatze is better than most stand-up comedians on their best night. His material was hit and miss<\/a>, relying a bit too much on a fun fundraiser wrinkle. One unrelated joke was very miss \u2014 as in, most of us completely missed it.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI have a blue jean tux on for some reason,\u201d Bargatze said at a throwaway point about midway into the show and between awards presentations. \u201cWe had, like, a joke. There\u2019s a cummerbund, and I forgot what it \u2014 I don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tHe was, indeed, wearing blue jeans and a blue denim dinner jacket over a crisp white dress shirt with a blue denim bowtie and blue denim cummerbund \u2014 a real, true Canadian Tuxedo for the Nashville native.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cAlright, please welcome two-time Emmy nominee Sydney Sweeney<\/a>,\u201d Bargatze said.<\/p>\n

\n\tSweeney then took the stage in a formal red gown \u2014 a far better fashion choice \u2014 to present best supporting actor in a limited series. Owen Cooper<\/a>, the recipient of the award as the 15-year-old star of Adolescence, immediately became the envy of all his mates \u2014 and only a little bit for the winning-an-Emmy<\/a> part.<\/p>\n

\n\tThis particular Bargatze bit bumped me. It was just him, standing on stage in a weird (but not particularly outrageous) tuxedo, pointing out that he was in a weird tux. People wear weird shit to these things, so that in and of itself doesn\u2019t really qualify this particular outfit as a sight gag.<\/p>\n

\n\tA colleague, clearly more plugged in to fabric-based controversies than I, asked, \u201cWas that [a] Sydney Sweeney joke? The jeans tux?\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tMy response, verbatim: \u201cI don\u2019t think so? Unless I missed some dialogue\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tShe was right, I was wrong. Well, I was sort of wrong. Though I didn\u2019t miss any dialogue, I do believe the joke was missing dialogue. That was by design, a person with knowledge of the bit told The Hollywood Reporter. Bargatze, an outspoken Christian who works squeaky clean, doesn\u2019t degrade and doesn\u2019t wade into controversy. The denim tux was him going there about Sweeney\u2019s controversial American Eagle billboard<\/a> and ad, in which the Hollywood \u201cIt\u201d girl<\/a> poses alone with the double entendre copy, \u201cSydney Sweeney Has Great Jeans.\u201d Basically, some of the chronically-online found the message to be that only blonde-haired, blue-eyed white women have \u201cgreat genes.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe suit was the setup and the Sweeney intro was the punchline. What was spoken in the middle was simply Bargatze-patter \u2014 there wasn\u2019t actually \u201ca joke\u201d he \u201cforgot,\u201d as he stated.<\/p>\n

\n\tUnfortunately, the \u201cjoke\u201d doesn\u2019t stand on the visual itself. Bargatze was in a tux, while Sweeney, at her most denim-y, wore jeans and a jean jacket. Other versions of the ad dressed the Euphoria star in a white t-shirt or a white tank top and bleached jeans. Yes, Bargatze\u2019s formal wear and Sweeney\u2019s dressed-down modeling moment both featured denim-based outfits, but this side of cotton, denim is probably our most common textile \u2014 parody only works when the original work is recognizable within the spoof. Multiple people attending the awards show told me that they didn\u2019t pick up on the joke, and a source who was backstage acknowledged a tepid response to the moment.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\"\"<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\tSydney Sweeney stars in American Eagle\u2019s fall 2025 campaign.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCourtesy of American Eagle<\/p>\n

\n\tTo call the joke \u201csubtle,\u201d as a number of my colleagues did, would be endorsing it for a level of cleverness and recognizability. Even with the info I have today, I cannot get on board with that classification. Not to overstate the importance of the moment, but a comedic cost-benefit analysis would probably conclude that, given what Bargatze had to work with, the risk of confusion outweighed its potential benefit. And as we all know, the best comedy comes out of economists\u2019 tools.<\/p>\n

\n\tFor her part, Sweeney took to the stage with no acknowledgment of the moment and no interaction with Bargatze \u2014 not in a rude way, just in a doing-the-job way. Sweeney either didn\u2019t catch the joke, didn\u2019t hear it, or ignored it, which could have been her choice or a choice made for her for the sake of the joke.<\/p>\n

\n\tEither way, the joke needed more \u2014\u00a0like, I don\u2019t know, a joke?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If sense of humor is genetic, then Nate Bargatze\u2019s got great genes. Bargatze was not at his peak…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":149271,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[3042,49,48,361,15066,39509,75,73739,8917],"class_list":["post-149270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-awards","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-celebrities","tag-emmys","tag-emmys-2025","tag-entertainment","tag-nate-bargatze","tag-sydney-sweeney"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149270\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}