{"id":180727,"date":"2025-09-25T11:52:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T11:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/180727\/"},"modified":"2025-09-25T11:52:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T11:52:07","slug":"nate-bargatze-kind-of-thought-studios-would-get-in-on-his-emmys-donation-bit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/180727\/","title":{"rendered":"Nate Bargatze kind of thought studios would get in on his Emmy’s donation bit"},"content":{"rendered":"

As viewers of the ceremony know, first-time Emmy\u2019s host Nate Bargatze came up with a novel (if mildly controversial<\/a>) method to get award recipients to cut their acceptance speeches short at this year\u2019s show: Every second winners went over their allotted 45-second window, Bargatze would deduct a thousand dollars from a planned $100,000 donation he intended to make to the Boys & Girls Club Of America. As viewers of the show also\u00a0know, the gesture backfired from a couple of different angles. Reviewers of the show weren\u2019t wild about seeing that kind of social pressure applied to getting winners to wrap it up more quickly\u2014overages might irritate CBS, the network airing the show, but a lot of folks like the speeches. But also, it essentially failed as a deterrent: By the end of the night, the number was actually more than $50,000 in the hole, which caused CBS to step in and cover the original $100,000 donation, while Bargatze pledged another $250,000 of his own money<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Which wasn\u2019t exactly how it was supposed to go down, according to an appearance that the comic made on his own\u00a0Nateland\u00a0podcast this week. Saying he \u201calmost sent an email out\u201d ahead of the show to try to explain his intent, Bargatze says he initially envisioned the studios stepping up\u2014or being encouraged to step up by their stars\u2014to cover when talent overran their time. \u201cIf someone was giving these long speeches, I just thought they could be like, \u2018and Netflix is gonna cover my overage,’\u201d Bargatze explained, saying it would have allowed stars to \u201cGo long, but then be a hero.\u201d<\/p>\n

To be clear, Bargatze isn\u2019t complaining about having to pony up himself: He\u2019s one of the most successful stand-ups on the planet, with Billboard estimating that he\u2019s made something north of $80 million from touring alone. (He did, after all, end up donating significantly more than he initially said he would at the outset of the show, basically just to give the whole thing a feel-good ending.) In the podcast, he seems more lightly annoyed that nobody else was on his wavelength with the bit, even while asserting that both CBS and audiences at home<\/a> enjoyed the concept.<\/p>\n

Your Friend, Nate Bargatze will host the 2025 Emmys<\/a>Nate Bargatze isn’t winning fights or career day in Your Friend, Nate Bargatze trailer<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As viewers of the ceremony know, first-time Emmy\u2019s host Nate Bargatze came up with a novel (if mildly…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":180728,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[236,88],"class_list":["post-180727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180727","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=180727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180727\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}