Oliver recounted how he managed to thank everyone in only 19 seconds after the Emmys host, Nate Bargatze, kicked off a long-running (and much-maligned) bit where money was deducted from the Boys & Girls Club of America if a speech went over 45 seconds.

Nate Bargatze, the host of this year's Emmy Awards, kicked off the ceremony Sunday with a string of jokes poking fun at the television industry.

The dollar amount flashed on the screen as award recipients delivered their speeches, inserting a game show element into the proceedings.

The Boys & Girls Clubs of America may end up being the biggest winner of Sunday night's Emmy Awards. The afterschool youth programming nonprofit is now seeing a donation surge after a controversial fundraising bit at the center of television's biggest night.

When Bargatze finally did take the mic for some unusually brief introductory remarks, he posed a typically self-deprecating question: “A lot of people are wondering, like, why am I hosting?”

At 15 years old, Cooper stole the show when he made history as the youngest male actor to win Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie thanks to his role in Adolescence....