This 'Westworld' Sketch at the Emmys Will Make You Laugh and Cringe at the Same Time
Not sure we ever needed to see Stephen Colbert like that.
Ever wonder how awards-show hosts keep such an even keel while giving their various monologues? During Sunday night's Emmys, Stephen Colbert revealed the secret: "Hosts" for awards shows are actually "hosts." You know, from Westworld.
The maze was not meant for you, Host Colbert.@StephenAtHome @colbertlateshow #Westworld #Emmys pic.twitter.com/i6sg5cEJZBSeptember 18, 2017
Colbert "glitched" during the show, and was brought to Westworld to get recalibrated via Jeffrey Wright. "Have you ever questioned the nature of your reality?" Wright asks a starkly naked Colbert (though, for propriety's sake, he of course still wore a bow tie). "Every day since November 8," Colbert replies.
Doesn’t look like anything to us, @StephenatHome. #Emmys #Westworld pic.twitter.com/Uap9XxXuPYSeptember 18, 2017
Wright goes on to accurately describe the Emmys as "a day when all the beautiful men and all the beautiful women gather to give golden statutes to Julia Louis-Dreyfus" before testing Colbert's impression of every awards-show stereotype in the book.
#Emmys: Stephen Colbert gets naked for a 'Westworld' "host" sketch https://t.co/BSvSRm4pS4 pic.twitter.com/uGlsQcAcTZSeptember 18, 2017
Watch the full clip here:
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Megan Friedman is the former managing editor of the Newsroom at Hearst. She's worked at NBC and Time, and is a graduate of Northwestern's Medill School of Journalism.