Nate Bargatze used his 2025 Emmy Awards opening to joke about the year's biggest moments in television. The comedian, 46, opened the Sunday, September 14, awards show - held at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles - a skit costarring Saturday Night Live standouts Bowen Yang, Mikey Day and James Austin Johnson. "What we create here will one day bring the world shows that inform and education," Bargatze said, playing a scientist.