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The 70th Primetime Emmy Awards featured a wide range of sketches, songs and speeches. Some of them stole the show and others may have missed the mark.
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the The Emmy Awards spread love Sunday night, rewarding critical favorites ("The Americans"), recipients (Regina King) and award-winning award winners (Thandie Newton). More highlights from this year's show:

Opening issue on the theme of diversity, the monologue raises mixed reactions. The Emmys had their group of the most diverse nominees in history this year – a fact that guests Michael Che and Colin Jost have awkwardly slanted into their opening monologue, in which they roasted "The Handmaid & # 39; s Tale "(" It's Roots "for white women). ) and Roseanne Barr ("Roseanne" was canceled by herself, but taken up by white nationalists) .The jokes – as well as the star musical show that preceded her, on the problem of television diversity being "solved "- have been widely criticized as "Weird" and "uncomfortable" by users on Twitter.

"Maisel" makes a wonderful demonstration. HBO's fantasy film, "Game of Thrones," won its third prize in the drama series, but it was the breakthrough of "The Marvelous Mrs. Amazon's comedy about a comic book housewife reconverted in the 1950s swept through the five main categories in which she was nominated: the best comedy, the actress (Rachel Brosnahan), the actress (Alex Borstein), "creative Amy Sherman-Palladino).

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Hannah Gadsby pleads to become a future host of Emmys. Forced reviews between presenters are often bothersome and the Emmys were no exception, with particularly laudable random associations (Larry David and Rachel Brosnahan, Jimmy Kimmel and Tracy Morgan, and Fred Armisen and Maya Rudolph, who have been called upon several times). times on for lame rewards show "comment"). It was therefore a relief when the producers invited Droll "Nanette" to run for a solo award, making the most of his brief appearance.

"For someone like me – nobody from nowhere – to get that good gig, just because I do not like men?" Gadsby said. "Just jokes, guys, calm down. #NotAllMen, but a lot of em."

Henry Winkler won the award for his role as an actor in a humorous series for his role in "Barry", 42 years after his first nomination for playing Fonzie in "Happy Days". (Photo: Robert Hanashiro / USA TODAY & # 39; HUI)

"The Fonz" wins its very first Emmy. Despite six nominations, the "Happy Days" star, Henry Winkler, never won the highest television award until Sunday, winning the Best Actor Award in a comedy for "Barry" of HBO. "I wrote that 43 years ago," began Winkler. The entertainment lawyer, Skip Brittenham, "told me a long time ago that if you stay at the table long enough, the chips will come to you and tonight I have to clear the table." Shortly after Winkler left the scene, Barry's star and co-creator Bill Hader took his own Emmy for lead comedy actor.

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Glenn Weiss, who won his 14th Emmy Award on Sunday, offered his girlfriend Jan Svendsen at the ceremony. (Photo: Robert Hanashiro / USA TODAY & # 39; HUI)

The director of Oscars proposes to make a girlfriend on stage. The biggest winner of this year's Emmys was not your favorite actor or television show. It was Glenn Weiss, who won the statue for directing the Oscar broadcast this year, and used his time on the podium to propose to his girlfriend, Jan Svendsen – to kneel and give the ring of his mother to his really shocked fiancée, just two weeks after his death. The audience's reactions were almost as inestimable as the proposal itself, ranging from the sweet surprise (Leslie Jones) to the tears (Claire Foy).

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