Eugene and Dan Levy are passing the baton to a different comic for the 2025 Emmy Awards.
On Wednesday, April 16, CBS introduced that Nate Bargatze will host this 12 months’s ceremony on Sunday, Sept. 14.
The 46-year-old comic stated in an announcement, “It’s an enormous honor to be requested to host such an iconic awards present and I’m past excited to work with CBS to create an evening that may be loved by households all over the world.”
Cris Abrego, chair of the Tv Academy, known as Bargatze “one of many hottest comics within the enterprise” as he praised his “exceptional and hilarious model of comedy that deeply resonates with multi-generational audiences across the globe” within the press launch.
“We’re thrilled to have the ability to leverage his one-of-a-kind perspective to entertain TV followers watching this 12 months’s Emmy telecast,” Abrego stated.
The Emmys will mark the primary awards present internet hosting gig for the comic, who instructed ipromiseyoumedia earlier this 12 months that he feels he owes a lot of his success to his two internet hosting gigs on Saturday Evening Stay.
“SNL‘s actually carried out lots of stuff for me,” Bargatze, who hosted the present in 2023 and most lately in October, stated. “I owe lots of this to SNL, and [creator] Lorne [Michaels].”
Noting the “20 years” he is spent within the enterprise, he credited Michaels for providing him alternatives which have had a “large” affect on his profession. “When you have a look at his historical past of SNL, it is all about discovering the subsequent group after which the opposite group strikes out and the brand new group is available in.”
Final 12 months’s hosts Eugene, 78, and Dan, 41, had been very a lot “not stand-up comics,” as Dan instructed ipromiseyoumedia forward of the present, in order that they approached the gig “from a really completely different place.”
“We’re each actually onerous employees and we’re decided to make it as nice as it may well presumably be. We wish to create an environment that feels actually welcome and celebratory. It is a large evening in so many individuals’s lives and we simply wish to be there to form of make it as festive as attainable for everyone.”
Eugene stated on the time that he and his son had been hoping that the present “can have sufficient laughs, sufficient appeal, sufficient goodwill and sufficient love for the medium that gave each my son and myself a begin on this enterprise.”
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The 2025 Emmy Awards will air stay on CBS and Paramount+ on Sunday, Sept. 14 at 8 p.m. ET.
