As Hollywood’s finest celebrated their wins or nursed their loses after the Emmy Awards Sunday night, there was one man who all the stars wanted to get their picture taken with – and no it wasn’t host Stephen Colbert.
Former White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer, who made a surprise appearance at the television awards show, was the belle of the ball, making even the most famous celebrities reach for their phones for a selfie.
And Spicey seemed to be lavishing in the attention, as he rubbed shoulders with the likes of Alec Baldwin, Dolly Parton and James Corden.
Sean Spicer was the belle of the ball after the Emmy Awards on Sunday. He’s pictured above with Alec Baldwin, who has portrayed President Trump on Saturday Night Live
Spicer also got a picture with Emmys host Stephen Colbert, who made several jabs at Trump throughout the night
The Late Late Show host James Corden went so far as to plant a kiss on Spicer at the awards show
Spicer made a surprise cameo at the 69th Emmys to mock his old boss, President Trump.
During the show, he was shelled out onto the stage on a White House-esq podium and re-created his now infamous Trump inauguration claim that it had the biggest attendance in history.
As he appeared ‘Spicey’ cracked: ‘This will be the largest audience to witness an Emmys. Period. Both in person, and around the world.’
Spicer was brought out to a surprised room full of celebrities whose jaws dropped when they saw the president’s former mouth piece at the Microsoft Theater in LA.
As the former White House flack was wheeled offstage, Colbert said ‘Thank you Melissa McCarthy!’ a nod to the actress’s fantastic impersonation of Spicer on Saturday Night Live.
Country music star Dolly Parton posed for pictures with Spicer at the Microsoft Theater, where the awards were held
Spicer appeared to have a lighthearted talk with LL Cool J at the Emmys
Spicer is pictured above with actor Michael Kelly, of House of Cards fame, at the Netflix Primetime Emmys party at NeueHouse
Spicer grins next to House of Cards star Gerald McRaney at the awards
Spicer appeared after Colbert unleashed a blistering string of jabs about Trump, calling him a ‘morally corrupt anti-hero,’ a ‘whiter Walter White’, poking fun at his obsession with ratings and tweeting.
The Late Show host also performed a song which included the lyrics ‘treason is better on TV’, while flashing a shot of Trump and Vladimir Putin, and ‘Imagine if your president was not beloved by Nazis’. He also took a shot at his failure to win the popular vote during the election.
Spicer and Colbert were joined by a long line of celebrities who criticized the president and his policies throughout the three-hour CBS broadcast, where politics was placed firmly in the spotlight.
Jane Fonda called him a bigot, Alec Baldwin ridiculed his failure to win an Emmy, Donald Glover accused him of oppressing black people and Julia Louis-Dreyfus made an impeachment joke.
Spicer was wheeled out during Stephen Colbert’s opening monologue at the Emmys, to the shock of celebrities sitting in the audience at the Microsoft Theater in LA Sunday
Stephen Colbert cracked that if Donald Trump had gotten an Emmy for ‘The Apprentice’ maybe he wouldn’t have run for President
McCarthy was surprised to see her SNL ‘doppelganger’ wheeled onstage. She led the star-studded audience in their shock at the former press secretary’s cameo
Veep star Anna Chlumsky’s face summed up the audience’s reaction as Spicer was wheeled onstage behind the podium
EVERY JOKE AND JAB AT TRUMP AT THE EMMYS
Colbert’s opening monologue took a more benevolent turn when he urged people to keep donations coming to those in need after hurricanes ravaged both Florida and Texas
STEPHEN COLBERT
‘Of course, there’s no way anyone could possibly watch that much TV, other than the president, who seems to have a lot of time for that sort of thing. Hello sir, thank you for joining us! Looking forward to the tweets.
‘We know that the biggest TV star of the last year is Donald Trump. No, we may not like it, but he’s the biggest star. And you know, Alec Baldwin, obviously. You guys are neck and neck. And Alec, you’re up against a lot of neck.
‘However you feel about the president, and you do feel about the president, you can’t deny that every show was influenced by Donald Trump in some way. ‘All the late night shows, obviously, ‘House of Cards,’ the new season of ‘American Horror Story’.
‘We all know that the Emmys mean a lot to Donald Trump because he was nominated multiple times for ‘Celebrity Apprentice,’ but he never won. Why didn’t you give him an Emmy? I’ll tell you this — if he had won an Emmy, I bet he wouldn’t have run for president. So this is all your fault. I thought you people love morally compromised antiheroes. You like Walter White.
‘And he never forgave you, and he never will. The president has complained repeatedly that the Emmys are rigged. He even went after the host a few years back, tweeting, ‘That Seth Meyers is hosting the Emmy Awards is a total joke. He is very awkward with almost no talent. Marbles in his mouth!’ Wow, marbles in his mouth, that’s harsh. That’s quite an accusation, do you have a response Seth? (Camera pans to Meyers, with marbles falling out of his mouth).
‘And even during the campaign, he wouldn’t let it go. This actually happened, this exchange actually happened in the debates. (Goes to video showing Clinton mentioning Trump’s Emmy loss in debate)
‘But he didn’t. Because unlike the presidency, Emmys go to the winner of the popular vote. Where do I find the courage to tell that joke in this room? Of course, what really matters to Donald Trump is ratings. He’s got to have the big numbers, and I certainly hope we achieve that tonight.
‘Unfortunately, at this point, we have no way of knowing how big our audience is. I mean, is there anyone who could say how big the audience is? Sean, do you know? (Moment Sean Spicer comes out on podium).
‘The Americans has hotter spies than the Russia inquiry, even treason’s better on TV’
In a skit spoofing HBO hit, Westworld, Colbert was asked by Jeffrey Wright if he’s ‘ever questioned the nature of [his] reality?’ Colbert responds: ‘Every day since November 8th.’
SEAN SPICER
‘This will be the largest audience to witness an Emmys. Period. Both in person, and around the world.’ Sean Spicer in a nod to the former WH flack’s now infamous claim President Trump’s crowd was the largest in history.’
COLBERT RESPONDS: ‘Wow, that really soothes my fragile ego. I can understand why you’d want one of these guys around. Melissa McCarthy everyone, give it up! Beautiful.’
‘Imagine if your president wasn’t loved by Nazis’ Veep star Louis-Dreyfus sang during the show’s opening song
JULIA LOUIS-DREYFUS
‘Imagine if your president wasn’t loved by Nazis’ Louis-Dreyfus sang during the show’s opening song.
‘We did have a whole story line about an impeachment but we abandoned that because we were worried that someone else might get to it first.’
ALEC BALDWIN
‘I suppose I should say, at long last, Mr. President, here is your Emmy,’ Baldwin said while accepting the award for his portrayal of the President on SNL.
‘Orange wig proved to be effective’ birth control, cracked Baldwin during his acceptance speech after he said he and wife Hilaria haven’t had a child in three years.
JANE FONDA, LILY TOMLIN AND DOLLY PARTON
‘Back in 1980 in that movie (9 to 5), we refused to be controlled by a sexist, egotistical, lying, hypocritical bigot.
‘And in 2017, we still refuse to be controlled by a sexist, egotistical, lying, hypocritical bigot.’
DONALD GLOVER
Glover ‘thanked’ Trump for ‘making black people number one on the most oppressed list’ during one of his Emmys acceptance speeches.
‘He’s the reason I’m probably up here,’ he added.
Donald Glover accepts Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series and thanked the president for making blacks in America ‘number one on the most oppressed list’
JOHN LITHGOW
‘First and foremost, I want to thank Winston Churchill. In these crazy times, his life reminds us what courage and leadership in government looks like.’
KUMAIL NANJIANI
‘They (the nominees for Outstanding Reality-Competition Program) also celebrate people who frantically race across international borders, and those who can scale walls really, really quickly. In other words, the president’s worst nightmare.’
SETH MYERS
The late night hoset took on physical comedy as Trump had previously called him ‘marble mouthed’ when he was hosting in 2014 on Twitter. The tweet flashed on screen as cameras cut to Meyers drooling marbles
Politics even made its way into the winners. The Handmaid’s Tale with took home six goings for its bleak portrait of an authoritarian America.
The glitzy ceremony in downtown Los Angeles – the first under the administration of President Donald Trump – was widely expected to have a strongly political flavor.
‘However you feel about the president, and you do feel about the president, you can’t deny that every show was influenced by Donald Trump in some way,’ Colbert began.
‘All the late night shows, obviously, ‘House of Cards,’ the new season of ‘American Horror Story.”
This will be the largest audience to witness an Emmys. Period. Both in person, and around the world
Colbert also jokingly scolded Emmy voters for not giving Trump an Emmy for ‘The Apprentice,’ posing that maybe if he had his own an Emmy he wouldn’t have run for President.
‘I thought you guys loved morally compromised antiheroes,’ he said of Trump, then called him ‘Walter Whiter,’ in reference to the ‘Breaking Bad’ character who won several Emmys for Bryan Cranston.
He also hilariously noted: ‘Unlike the presidency, Emmys go to the winner of the popular vote.’
The awards show put Trump’s seeming obsession with the Emmys front and center when they showed his 2012 tweet in which he shared his dismay over his reality show ‘The Apprentice’ not scoring the coveted golden statue
The president in 2012 vented his frustrations after his reality show The Apprentice did not get one of the coveted gold statues given at the Emmys.
Unlike the presidency, Emmys go to the winner of the popular vote
‘The Emmys are all politics, that’s why, despite nominations, The Apprentice never won–even though it should have many times over,’ Trump tweeted at the time.
During a spirited opening song with several celebrity appearances, Julia Louis-Dreyfus sang how nice it would be to have a president who ‘was not beloved by Nazis.’
With Colbert chiming in ‘Even treason’s better on TV,’ as an image flashes of Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump.
Later in a skit spoofing HBO hit, Westworld, Colbert was asked by Jeffrey Wright if he’s ‘ever questioned the nature of [his] reality?’ Colbert responds: ‘Every day since November 8th.’
Marble mouthed 2014 Emmy host: Trump called Seth Meyers hosting gig a ‘total joke’ in 2012 when he was upset he didn’t win an Emmy for ‘The Apprentice.’ Colbert flashed Trump’s tweet as Meyers drooled marbles out of his mouth
Loser no more? Trump didn’t win an Emmy for his show The Apprentice in 2014 taking to his perennial favorite platform Twitter to call Meyers ‘very awkward with almost no talent’
Alec Baldwin smiled in the audience as Colbert cracked at the actor’s impersonation of the president on SNL this season
Several celebrity presenters and those accepting awards decided to keep the spotlight on Trump, as the hits on his reign kept on coming later in the program.
The president has complained repeatedly that the Emmys are rigged. He even went after the host a few years back, tweeting, ‘That Seth Meyers is hosting the Emmy Awards is a total joke. He is very awkward with almost no talent. Marbles in his mouth!’ Wow, marbles in his mouth, that’s harsh. That’s quite an accusation, do you have a response Seth? (Marbles fall out of Meyers’ mouth).
Trump called Seth Meyers Emmy’s hosting gig a ‘total joke’ in 2014.
Colbert started off by saying ‘He even went after the host a few years back, tweeting, ”That Seth Meyers is hosting the Emmy Awards is a total joke. He is very awkward with almost no talent. Marbles in his mouth!” Wow, marbles in his mouth, that’s harsh. That’s quite an accusation, do you have a response Seth?’
Cameras cut to Meyers dribbling marbles out of his mouth in response.
Baldwin came to the stage accepting the Emmy and started off his speech by saying: ‘At long last, Mr. President, here is your Emmy.’
After its most-watched season in 23 years, ‘Saturday Night Live’ won nine Emmys, including best variety sketch series, for actress Kate McKinnon and for Melissa McCarthy’s turn as Spicer.
Soon after Baldwin picked up the accolade, Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin and Dolly Parton, came on stage to present an award and made a joke about their 1980s movie 9 to 5, at Trump’s expense.
Tomlin and Fonda said in 1980 they didn’t put up with a ‘sexist, egotistical, lying, hypocritical, bigoted boss’ and they won’t today either, in a clear knock at Trump.
Donald Glover won his first Emmy win for Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series, making him the first black director to ever win the category.
He used the speech to make a jibe at the president.
Glover ‘thanked’ Trump for ‘making black people number one on the most oppressed list.’
Julia Louis Dreyfus who is starring in the hit show ‘Veep’ as President Selina Meyer on the HBO comedy, jested ‘We did have a whole story line about an impeachment but we abandoned that because we were worried that someone else might get to it first.’
The joke received a rousing applause from the fairly liberal Hollywood elite crowd.
Meanwhile, several celebrities walked the carpet wearing blue ribbons, but it wasn’t a new trend.
Stars were showing their support for the American Civil Liberties Union and their ‘Stand With the ACLU’ initiative.