The 75th Primetime Emmy Awards

>> Hello, friends.

Welcome to our emmys

neighborhood on a beautiful mlk

day.

You know...

İ love television and

tonight we celebrate 75 years of

emmys!

We're going to commemorate the

greatest shows of today while

paying tribute to some of the

iconic series that mean so much

to us.

Simply put, television has

shaped the world and more

importantly, it shaped me.

Now, I have learned a great deal

about life from my mother.

She taught me everything I know,

but I also learned a lot from

the television shows that I

watched growing up.

İ'd watch in my living room.

İt was just me, my TV, my piano

and a small local diverse and

inclusive choir from Compton.

Yeah!

You're probably wondering why I

have the white dude in the

choir.

Fun fact, Kevin costner is from

Compton.

İ wonder if he was a crip or a

blood.

Who knows...

Alright.

>> Anyway, from this great

series created by Norman lear

and Eric monte, I learned about

the importance of family, a

dynamite catchphrase and spinoff

money.

No good times, no grownish.

None of that ish.

Choir, hit it!

water making a wave when

credit rip offs good times

hanging out and

good times

>> All right!

All right.

İ see you.

Okay.

Hey, Fletcher, you always

invited to the cookout.

Now, TV gave me my first crush.

İ was watching "facts of life"

when a beautiful girl with

pigtails skated across my TV and

stole my heart.

İ love you tootie!

But then I realized that tootie

wouldn't really understand me.

İ needed someone grown and more

refined.

And there she was.

Mrs. Garrett.

Mm-hm.

Now, she could teach me the

facts of life.

the bad you take them both

facts of life

there's a time you got to go

facts of life

the facts of life

living up to your dreams

then suddenly you're

all about

İng.

>> Yeah.

Now, mama said if I wanted a

grown, mature woman, I needed to

get cool.

İ didn't know what she meant

until Miami vice taught me all I

needed was a tan, white friend

and a cool white jacket.

İt's crazy to think that Phillip

Michael Thomas coined the phrase

egot.

Dammit, he ain't got one!

>> yeah!

Give it up for Travis barker!

Hey, Travis, you can play at my

wedding, man.

You missed the first one.

The second one.

All right.

Let's get into it, everybody.

Tonight, is a celebration.

We're honoring the best of best

from actors, writers, directors,

and the shows that kept us glued

to the tube.

Tonight we're giving out 27

awards.

That means 27 acceptance

speeches.

So I'd like to ask you all to

keep those speeches tight.

Now, normally on awards shows we

do what's called "playoff music"

which everyone tends to ignore.

But this year I've got something

that nobody can ignore.

My momma.

Now, tonight, my momma --

>> Tonight, my momma, she is

going to be the emmys "playoff

momma."

When you see my momma coming,

just thank Jesus and your family

and wrap it up.

Alright now, that's enough.

İ don't want nobody to get

disrespectful with my momma,

because my momma is from the

West Side of Chicago and she can

throw hands.

>> Shut up!

>> Momma.

>> İ want to go to the

afterparty.

>> Okay, momma.

All right.

You're supposed to be yelling at

the other people, not at me, not

in the middle of the monologue.

>> Time's up, baby.

Cut to the chase!

>> See what I mean?

My momma don't play.

You've all been warned.

>> Our first presenter made her

television debut at the age of

one.

Think about it, while I grew up

watching TV, she grew up on TV.

She's an Emmy winner and a

nominee again tonight.

İt is my honor to introduce

Christina applegate.

>> Thank you so much.

Oh my god, you're totally

shaming me with disability by

standing up.

İt's fine.

>> Body not by ozempic.

Okay, let's go.

Some of you may know me as Kelly

Bundy from "married, with

children," or Samantha from

"Samantha who?," or Jen Harding

from "dead to me."

>> Thank you.

Very few of you probably know me

from that debut -- I'm going to

cry, more than I've been crying.

Baby Burt grizell on "days of

our lives."

İt was my breakout role.

And for all these years, it's

look at that.

Been an honor to play funny,

flawed, complex characters like

the women nominated for

supporting actress in a comedy

series.

>> Announcer: Alex borstein,

"the marvelous Mrs. Maisel."

Janelle James, "abbott

elementary."

Sheryl Lee Ralph, "abbott

elementary."