THE TUBE — The Emmy Awards were held Sunday night, celebrating all your favorite shows on streaming or TV, and the ones you keep telling your friends or co-workers that you'll watch someday — but you know you never will.
The annual awards show honors everything made possible after Utah native Philo T. Farnsworth invented the television nearly 100 years ago. And last night's ceremony opened with comedian and award show host Nate Bargatze rekindling his iconic "Washington's Dream" sketch from "Saturday Night Live," but this time as Farnsworth.
The opening sketch carried the same premise as the George Washington bit; yet, this time around Bargatze — sorry, I mean Farnsworth — proudly envisions a future where few people understand the plot of "Severance" and the History Channel exists to broadcast everything but history, while speaking with members of his laboratory a century ago.
The bit won over the crowd and the internet, as several people deemed it one of the highlights of the evening.
Did Farnsworth truly envision a world where streaming existed, or one filled with true crime documentaries? We'll never know, but he did share the same birthplace as Butch Cassidy, and that's pretty fitting when you think of the state of television now.
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