Emmys Use Magic Box, David Letterman to Present 'Last Week Tonight' With Another Variety Talk Series Award

 Reese Witherspoon  and  Kerry Washington  are ready for 2020 to be over. The Little Fires Everywhere co-stars rang in the New Year early on Sunday during the virtual 72nd annual Emmy Awards.

Reese Witherspoon and Kerry Washington are ringing in the new year a few months early.

Amy Sherman-Palladino and Dan Palladino took fans to Stars Hollow during Sunday night's live virtual Emmy Awards. Both were nominated this year for Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series for their respective work on.

The 72nd Primetime Emmy Awards were unlike any of the previous 71.

72nd Emmy Awards.Host Jimmy Kimmel, 52, opened the ceremony by delivering his monologue to an apparently full audience sans masks or social distancing that confused viewers at home. However, he soon revealed it was old footage (with the real audience being a mix of empty chairs and cardboard cutouts), and then he moved into a room filled with an entire wall of screens showing this year’s nominees video-conferencing in remotely.

Host Jimmy Kimmel didn’t mince words with his audience. Conducting a live Emmys telecast during a global pandemic is pretty frivolous.

Watchmen, Succession and Schitt’s Creek were the big winners during a politically charged Emmy Awards and a ceremony unlike any before.

Will Thorne Staff WriterJohn Oliver won his fifth variety talk series Emmy in a row on Sunday night, and immediately afterwards questioned whether the ceremony should even be taking place this year because of the coronavirus pandemic.Host Jimmy Kimmel, who lost out to Oliver once again, jokingly asked asked the same question earlier on during his opening monologue.“I don’t have a sense of if people are enjoying this or not,” Oliver said in the virtual media center backstage after his win.

Harvard Law Review, the second woman appointed to the highest court in the United States, advocating for gender equality through landmark cases such as and , advocating for same-sex marriage in , and for opposing Texas' strict abortion laws in the 2016 case . Before images of late actors , , Jerry Stiller, Regis Philbin, John Witherspoon, Diana Figg, and Diahann Carroll moved across the screen during the in memoriam segment, Jimmy Kimmel honored Justice Ginsburg.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who died on Friday at the age of 87, received a tribute at the 2020 Emmy Awards. Ginsburg, who has been portrayed by Kate McKinnon on, and by Felicity Jones in the 2018 film, was remembered by host Jimmy Kimmel ahead of the In Memoriam segment.«On Friday, we lost a great American. Ruth Bader Ginsburg was a compassionate and tireless champion of equality and justice.

Catherine O'Hara's favorite season. During Sunday's Emmy Awards, O'Hara took home Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series for her portrayal of the matriarch in the series' final season.Presented by Jennifer Aniston and Jimmy Kimmel, O'Hara accepted the award amoungst her cast mates.

Jimmy Kimmel poked fun at MAGA in his opening monologue to a fake crowd during this Sunday’s Emmy Awards.

In an unprecedented year for the television industry, due to the still-ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, we definitely are expecting a unique telecast for the 2020 Primetime Emmy Awards. This year’s show is hosted by Jimmy Kimmel, returning for his third time, which may very well be the only recognizable part of the evening’s festivities as the event goes digital.

The 2020 Emmy Awards will be a virtual event, but Jimmy Kimmel will still be hosting the show from a studio!

seems to be the message from the Television Academy for Sunday’s unprecedented virtual 2020 Emmy Awards  — hosted for the third time by late-night comic Jimmy Kimmel — in lieu of an in-person event at LA’s Microsoft Theater.