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10:10, 27-Apr-2018
'Saturday Night Live' stars to host the Emmy Awards
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“Saturday Night Live” performers Colin Jost and Michael Che will host the Emmy Awards in September while Lorne Michaels, the creator of the satirical sketch show, will produce the ceremony which honors the best in television, broadcaster NBC announced on Thursday.
Jost and Che are the anchors of the spoof television news segment, “Weekend Update”, on “Saturday Night Live”.
The Emmy ceremony also will feature other cast members from “Saturday Night Live,” which is enjoying its biggest audiences in more than 20 years largely due to skits skewering key players in the US President Donald Trump administration.
Emmy nominations will be announced on July 12 and the winners will be presented on Sept. 17 in Los Angeles.
Late-night talk show host Stephen Colbert was host of the ceremony last year when “Saturday Night Live” won nine Emmys, including honors for Alec Baldwin’s withering impersonation of Trump and Melissa McCarthy’s turn as former White House spokesman Sean Spicer.
This year viewership is slightly down to about 9.4 million viewers, according to ratings data.
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Source(s): Reuters