Jeremy Allen White in The Bear. (FX)In a sketch that opened the 2025 Emmy Awards, host Nate Bargatze pokes fun at the nominated series The Bear, calling it a "laugh-out-loud" comedy that is also a "heartbreaking look at the emotional toll of trauma.""That sounds like a drama, sir," Saturday Night Live star Bowen Yang responds."And yet it is not," Bargatze replies. That's the joke - there aren't many jokes in The Bear at all.