Emmy Awards

TOPIC: 2017 Emmy Awards

(FYI: The Emmys is an annual award show that honors the best in U.S. prime-time television programming. This year's ceremony acknowledged fan-favorite TV shows, movies, actors and directors from June 1, 2016 to May 31, 2017, as chosen by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.)    

FACT: The 69th Annual Prime-time Emmy Awards took place at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles this year, and was hosted by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert's very own comedian Stephen Colbert. :)  

Shocking moments go hand in hand with every award show known to man, but the 2017 Emmys definitely took those moments to a whole other level. After making a notably controversial joke about follow comedian Bill Maher, Colbert brought out former White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer in the middle of his opening monologue -- and let's just say things got spicy. The moment Spicer set foot on stage to play along with Stephen Colbert's monologue, not only were the crowd of celebrities visually speechless, but the show kept cutting to actress Melissa McCarthy, who famously played the press secretary on the most recent season of Saturday Night Live, since she was clearly flabbergasted to say the least.

Some of the night's sketches were also pretty memorable, my favorite being when RuPaul portrayed a real life Emmy statue in a sit down interview with the host of the night, gossiping about other famed award statues including Oscar and Tony.

Another honorable moment of the 2017 Emmys occurred when Melissa McCarthy and Dave Chapelle walked out on stage to present an award, where Chapelle gave a shout-out to D.C. Public Schools. Following this surprising shout-out, comedian and show-host John Oliver sparked a trending hashtag on Twitter during his acceptance speech for the Outstanding Writing For A Variety Series award, stating, "Like Dave Chapelle, I would like to unexpectedly thank D.C. Public Schools because I think it would be great if it started trending tonight on Twitter for no reason whatsoever. So, if you're tweeting about the Emmys at home, please use the hashtag D.C. Public Schools."

The award show also had a very politically inspired theme, commonly poking fun at President Donald Trump. At the beginning of the night, Colbert made a jab about Trump being nominated for an Emmy many times for his show The Apprentice, but failed to actually win the award. So when Alec Baldwin accepted his award for Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series, he mentioned that this one was "for him".

Lastly, The Handmaid’s Tale made history for Hulu that night when they won the Emmys for Outstanding Drama Series and Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series while their respective cast members won for supporting and lead actress. Other nominated series included The Crown, Stranger Things, House of Cards and This Is Us, while multiple winners throughout the night coincidentally decided to thank the one and only Oprah Winfrey in their acceptance speeches, primarily because she was sitting dead-center in the first row.

All in all, it was a night you did not want to miss!