{"id":160730,"date":"2025-09-16T11:34:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T11:34:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/160730\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T11:34:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T11:34:06","slug":"john-oliver-kept-his-emmys-speech-short-to-cost-nate-bargatze-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/160730\/","title":{"rendered":"John Oliver Kept His Emmys Speech Short ‘To Cost Nate Bargatze Money’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tJohn Oliver<\/a> stopped by Jimmy Kimmel<\/a> Live after earning two Emmys for Last Week Tonight<\/a>, and took the opportunity to reflect on being forced to keep his acceptance speech short. <\/p>\n

\n\tOliver recounted how he managed to thank everyone in only 19 seconds after the Emmys host, Nate Bargatze<\/a>, kicked off a long-running<\/a> (and much-maligned<\/a>) bit where money was deducted from the Boys & Girls Club of America if a speech went over 45 seconds. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cMy motivating factor was just to cost Nate Bargatze money personally,\u201d Oliver told Kimmel. \u201cWhether or not it went to a good cause that was enough for me. The fact that it went to the Boys & Girls of America is great, but, again, it would have been fine if it was just set fire to.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tKimmel noted that even though Oliver kept his speech short, other winners didn\u2019t manage it quite as well. \u201cI thought I was in a good position,\u201d Oliver replied. \u201cI speak pretty fast on the show anyway.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe hosts also discussed Stephen Colbert<\/a> and The Late Show winning the Emmy<\/a> for Outstanding Talk Series despite their recent cancellation. \u201cI was backstage,\u201d Oliver recalled. \u201cI was obviously very happy. I got to see it because I stopped the interview so I could watch him get up and speak. So it was great. I think we were all very happy.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tHe added, \u201cI will say this. I know we wanted him to win. The right thing to happen was for him to win. The funniest thing to happen would have been if you had won.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\t\u201cYou\u2019re right,\u201d Kimmel replied. Oliver continued, \u201cMost of me wanted him to win. A part of me, the part of me that I like more, just wanted to see your face go \u2018Oh no, not like this.’\u201d <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tFollowing the Emmys, Rolling Stone wrote<\/a> that Bargatze \u201cat best seemed confused about why anybody watching at home should care about any of this, and at worst radiated absolute contempt for the whole thing.\u201d The review added that the ongoing bit about the deducting from a charitable donation for longer speech set a negative tone. \u201cBargatze, and the show, were actively rooting against people expressing joy at having won these awards, and they wanted the audience to root against them, too,\u201d the review noted. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"John Oliver stopped by Jimmy Kimmel Live after earning two Emmys for Last Week Tonight, and took the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":160731,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[10550,88,17114,11575,20991,22339,11448,3784,10674],"class_list":{"0":"post-160730","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-emmys-2025","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-jimmy-kimmel","11":"tag-jimmy-kimmel-live","12":"tag-john-oliver","13":"tag-last-week-tonight","14":"tag-late-night-tv","15":"tag-nate-bargatze","16":"tag-stephen-colbert"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160730\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}