Emmy Awards 2025 Opening tributes TV inventor Farnsworth

Comedian Nate Bargatze hosted the 77th Television Academy Emmy Awards last weekend with a tribute to the inventor of Philo Farnsworth.

Farnsworth: I dreamed that one day there will be a channel for every interest. The travel channel for travel. The food network for food and the history channel for ...

Engineer: history.

Farnsworth: No aliens

Nate also introduced an inventive way to keep award acceptance speeches from going over 45 seconds, he made a donation pledge of $100,000 to the Boys and Girls Club of America but removing $1000 for each second speeches go over their alloted time limit.

How much did Nate Bargetze donate to the Boys and Girls Club? At the end of the night they went over time way too long, but Nate increased his initial pledge to $250,000 with CBS adding another $100,000.