But I would argue that Jimmy Kimmel didn’t need to pull off the TV event of the year or some kind of miracle that would make viewers forget that this broadcast is completely different from the previous 71 Emmys ceremonies.
It just needed to go off with as few hitches as possible.
Was the Emmys broadcast a three-hour block of nonstop laughs, with the exception of the more poignant speeches and the In Memoriam segment that opened with talk show legend Regis Philbin and closed with Marvel star Chadwick Boseman?