Conan O’Brien was pretty much the best part of the 2021 Emmys.
Did he win anything? No, but that’s besides the point.
First, O’Brien, 56, causes a ruckus when Frank Scherma, chairman of the Television Academy, was speaking.
O’Brien began loudly and dramatically cheering for Scherma, making the audience divert their attention to him as he vigorously saluted the executive. The rest of us at home dearly wished the camera had followed as he continued throughout Scherma’s remarks.
Later, the “Conan” host headed up to the stage when Stephen Colbert and the writers of “The Late Show” won the Emmy for live variety special for “Stephen Colbert’s Election Night 2020: Democracy’s Last Stand Building Back America Great Again Better 2020.”
“We f---ing did it!” O’Brien exclaimed, raising his fists in the air and hugging Colbert, who lives in Montclair. The late-night host was not a part of the writing staff for the Showtime special.
As Colbert spoke, thanking his collaborators, O’Brien embraced people on the stage and cheerily nodded along.
“Most of the people behind me really deserve this Emmy right now,” Colbert said in a nod to O’Brien’s impromptu decision to join the staff.
Colbert, 57, thanked the Emmys-dominating series “Ted Lasso” and Emmy-winning late-night show “Last Week Tonight” for not being in the same category. When the COVID-19 pandemic shut down stages in 2020, he often filmed “The Late Show” at his home in Montclair.
Colbert has won 10 Emmys, his first as a writer on “The Daily Show” in 2004. He went on to win writing and variety series Emmys for “The Colbert Report.” This is his first Emmy as host of “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,” though he won for the Showtime special.
This year brought the last season for O’Brien’s show “Conan” on TBS, which was nominated for best variety talk series. The last episode aired in June. Next, O’Brien will host a weekly variety show on HBO Max.
John Oliver, host of “Last Week Tonight,” gave O’Brien a shoutout during his acceptance speech for best variety talk series.
“I think like many of us in this room, I was kind of rooting for Conan, so this is bittersweet,” he said. “Thank you so much, Conan, for 30 years of inspiring comedy writers.”
With that, the camera cut to O’Brien, who was all smiles. But in true Conan style, he suddenly dropped that expression for another: the sorely disappointed nominee.
“He’s fine, he’s fine!” Oliver insisted as someone handed O’Brien an Emmy out of pity.
O’Brien, who became a late-night talk show host in 1993 with NBC’s “Late Night with Conan O’Brien,” has won four Emmys over the course of his career. His won his first as a writer on “Saturday Night Live” in 1989 and his second for “Late Night” in 2007, after the show had accrued 11 consecutive writing nominations.
The comedy veteran, who is known for his “Conan Without Borders” travel specials, also won an Emmy in 2019 for creative achievement in interactive media within an unscripted program for his Japan and Australia episodes.
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