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It’s finally the night. After months of waiting, hours spent researching on Google and plenty of praying, it’s the night you sat down to watch the entertaining 2016 Emmys Awards.
Ariel Winter ended up twinning with Kylie Jenner on the red carpet, but the real focus of the night were the winners. Various outstanding women took home awards tonight, such as Julia Louis-Dreyfus who won “lead actress in a comedy” for “Veep,” Sarah Paulson who won “lead actress in a limited series” for “American Horror Story: Hotel” and Tatiana Maslany who won “lead actress in a drama” for “Orphan Black.”
But aside from tonight’s award winners, the Emmys is also a great source of entertainment. So instead of reading about all the people who won, let’s dive into the top 10 craziest Emmys moments from 2000 up to now (with some help from NY Daily News, InStyle and Vogue).
Like most people, you might have marked “September 16, 2001” on your calendars as the night for the Emmys. Like most people, though, by that September 16, you had bigger problems on your mind than movie awards: the terrorist attacks that occurred only a few days before. Out of respect for what is now referred to as 9/11, the Emmys was moved to October 7, 2001 … only the beginning of the war in Afghanistan struck, so it was re-re scheduled to November 4, 2001. If you ever feel like you’re constantly re-scheduling dates with your girlfriends, just imagine the Emmys producers’ frustration!
By the time you’re 78 years old, you might have given up on the idea of a handsome stranger sweeping you off your feet like soulmates in a romance film. When “Everybody Loves Raymond” star Doris Roberts walked on stage to receive her award, however, comedic celeb Matthew Perry shocked everyone by giving her a little something extra: a big kiss.
Remember the countless memes for Leonardo DiCaprio when it seemed like he would never win a Oscar (until he finally did)? Sarah Jessica Parker knew exactly how he felt; since 1999, she was nominated for an Emmy for her role in “Sex and the City.” In 2004, all those nominations finally paid off.
If you’re so clumsy that you’re constantly covered in bruises and forget what you run into, you probably appreciated Helen Mirren’s 2006 speech. As she stepped up to the podium to celebrate the Emmy win for “Elizabeth,” Mirren immediately said: “My great triumph is not falling a** over t*t as I came up those stairs.” Young Emmys-fans, cover your ears!
Have you ever wanted to watch the Emmys, only it keeps dragging on and on until it’s way past your bedtime? Conan O’Brien didn’t want the 2006 Emmys to have that same fate, so he came up with a safe, logical solution: locking host Bob Newhart in an air-tight glass box with only three hours of oxygen. Perhaps his eccentric motivation worked; the Emmys ended three minutes early that year.
In 2007, Sally Field seemed to dedicate her acceptance speech (for her work on ABC’s “Brothers and Sisters”) to a good cause: US troops. When the audience began clapping, however, she shouted, “Quiet!” only to seem to have lost her train of thought. The Fox network took the Emmys off-air moments later.
You might remember 2011 as the year you started your first real job or began dating your present partner. For Emmys fans, though, it was the year of the (bizzare) Lonely Island. During the award ceremony, the trio performed a three-minute mash of their greatest (and most sexual?) hits, including “I Just Had Sex,” “3-Way” and a version of “Jack Sparrow.” As InStyle explains, the finale featured a mix of Captain Jack Sparrow, an American flag, dancers right out of your mom’s 90s workout videos and a “#1 Sex Champions” banner. Now that’s how to put on a memorable performance.
Have you ever gotten stage fright? 2013 Emmys-award-winner Merritt Wever can relate. In fact, she was so shocked at winning Best Supporting Actress that her acceptance speech sounded more like a line from the end of a bad date: “Thank you very much … um, I got to go. Bye.”
In 2014, Bryan Cranston took that phrase quite literally when Julia Louis-Dreyfus won the Outstanding Lead Actress award. As she walked toward the stage, Cranston grabbed her and started a random make-out session … or it at least looked random until you remembered their characters’ make-out session in “Seinfeld.”
With the political elections rapidly approaching, Donald Trump was the center of many conversations this year. Jimmy Kimmel kicked off the show by calling out producer Mark Burnett who helped make Donald Trump a star with the “Apprentice” franchise and suggested to throw Mark Burnett over Trump’s wall. “Transparent” creator Jill Soloway, on the other hand, compared Trump to Hitler while “The Voice’s” EP Mark Burnett made a comment about how Hillary Clinton called him to thank Kimmel for “an extra free five minutes of ABC publicity.”
On more brighter news, though, Jimmy Kimmel’s mom also made about 7,000 peanut butter and jelly sandwiches to hand out to the audience because, as Kimmel points out, many of the celebrities “[hadn’t] eaten since labor day.”
What do you think will happen next year?
