2020 Emmys are not your typical Emmys, because nothing in the year 2020 is typical. The live, remotely produced awards show embraced the chaos, though, with host Jimmy Kimmel jokingly questioning why the Emmys were even happening at all this year.
Kimmel, hosting the Emmys for the third time, spent much of his opening monologue trying to explain and justify why the Emmys were happening in a year of the pandemic and political unrest and unceasing darkness.
And he wasn't really successful.After getting the greeting out of the way, he got right to it: "The big question that I guess we should answer is, why would you have an awards show in the middle of a pandemic?
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