Jimmy Kimmel Delivers First Pandemic-era Monologue At Emmys 2020 To Fake Audience

It was announced in July that the 72nd Primetime Emmy Awards would be held virtually this year due to COVID-19, with nominees attending the ceremony from their homes. Kimmel said it might seem frivolous and unnecessary to organise an awards show during a global pandemic, but it is fun and we need fun. “This has been a miserable year. This has been a year of division, injustice, disease, zoom school, disaster and death. We’ve been quarantined and locked down. We’ve been confined to our homes like prisoners in a dark and lonely tunnel, and what did we find in that dark and lonely tunnel? I’ll tell you what we found: a friend who is there for us 24 hours a day. Our old pal, television, he said. During the monologue Kimmel was joined by actor Jason Bateman in an empty room, decorated with cutouts of this year’s nominees. Bateman, however, left soon after the host said he could only stay if he promised to laugh at all his jokes.

Kimmel remotely hosted the ceremony from a stage inside the Staples Center. PTI SHD SHD 09211225 NNNN.