John Mulaney Sneaks NSFW Swipe At DJ Khaled Into Emmys Sermon About Manliness

Presenting Lead Actor in a Drama Series at Monday's Emmys, John Mulaney delivered an extended riff on modern masculinity before naming a single nominee. He praised the category as full of men who aren't 'soft like the dad on Bluey,' invented a fake TV history in which Fonzie single-handedly introduced men to television, and worked in a reference to DJ Khaled's 2018 comments about oral sex.

He closed with a passage read from a 2007 book on being a 'man's man,' borrowed, he noted, from the Glendale library, before finally announcing the nominees. Social media reaction, per clips circulating afterward, treated the bit as a highlight of the broadcast, with one observer noting the joke drew more applause than several winners' speeches.

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