LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – The Emmy awards show was peppered with political jokes and pointed speeches on Sunday, as host Stephen Colbert took shots at U.S. President Donald Trump, Sean Spicer made a surprise appearance and Trump won an Emmy – sort of. <\/p>\n
Alec Baldwin, who won a comedy supporting actor Emmy for parodying Trump on NBC\u2019s sketch series \u201cSaturday Night Live,\u201d accepted his award on stage and said, \u201cI suppose I should say, at long last Mr. President, here is your Emmy.\u201d <\/p>\n
Trump\u2019s lack of an Emmy win during his long-running stint hosting NBC\u2019s \u201cThe Apprentice\u201d and \u201cThe Celebrity Apprentice\u201d has been a sore spot for the now president, who has bemoaned not winning in previous years. <\/p>\n
Colbert opened Sunday\u2019s Emmys ceremony with a musical number that touched on climate change, news media and included Julia Louis-Dreyfus, dressed as her foul-mouthed fictitious president Selina Meyer from \u201cVeep,\u201d singing \u201cImagine if your president was not beloved by Nazis.\u201d <\/p>\n
Colbert later poked fun at Trump, calling him \u201cthe biggest TV star of the last year,\u201d and criticizing the television academy for not previously giving Trump an Emmy award. <\/p>\n
\u201cWhy didn\u2019t you give him an Emmy? If he had won an Emmy, I bet he wouldn\u2019t have run for president,\u201d Colbert quipped. <\/p>\n
Many of the stars taking the Emmys stage on Sunday also threw jabs at the president. <\/p>\n
Donald Glover, who won two Emmys including best comedy actor for his FX show \u201cAtlanta,\u201d joked on stage, \u201cI want to thank Trump for making black people number one on the most oppressed list, he\u2019s the reason I\u2018m up here I think.\u201d <\/p>\n
Louis-Dreyfus, who won best comedy actress for a record sixth time for her role as Meyer on \u201cVeep,\u201d said of the upcoming season, \u201cWe did have whole storyline about an impeachment, but we abandoned that because we were worried that someone else might get to it first.\u201d <\/p>\n
Former White House press secretary Spicer walked onto the Emmy stage wheeling a podium and stunning the star-studded audience, including Melissa McCarthy, who won a guest actress Emmy for portraying him on NBC\u2019s \u201cSaturday Night Live.\u201d <\/p>\n
\u201cThis will be the largest audience to witness an Emmys, period, both in person and around the world,\u201d Spicer said while pointing his finger at Colbert. <\/p>\n
\u201cWow, that really soothes my fragile ego,\u201d the host deadpanned, before pointing at Spicer and saying, \u201cMelissa McCarthy everyone, give it up,\u201d as Spicer laughed and shook his head. <\/p>\n
Spicer burst onto the public stage in January as Trump\u2019s first press secretary, with a scolding rant against reporters accusing them of lowballing the size of the Inauguration Day crowd. He left the White House this summer, sparking a flurry of speculation as to his next career move. <\/p>\n
Reporting by Piya Sinha-Roy and Lisa Richwine; Editing by Mary Milliken<\/p>\n
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