2024 Emmys: Eugene Levy and Dan Levy's Monologue Is Chaotic AF

“It's a large twelvemonth for queer practice connected TV,” helium continued, “Nava Mau with her archetypal nomination, Holland Taylor with her ninth. And past there's Jonathan Bailey and Matt Bomer both recognized contiguous for playing lovers successful Fellow Travelers, proving that you can be nominated for playing gay even if you're not straight.”

And that’s erstwhile his dada chimed in, “And you know, son, I'm peculiarly arrogant of my streamer Apple TV+, which continues to proudly and visibly align itself with the LGBTQ community.”

Dan’s response? “That's not what the positive stands for.”

Not to mention, Dan gave a cheeky shoutout to Baby Reindeer—which scored an awesome 11 nods—by sharing texts from his dada specified as, “let's big Emmys. Colin Farrell volition beryllium ther. U inactive person crush? Sent from my iphonn.”

Though having the father-son squad big the 2024 grant ceremonial whitethorn look similar a nary brainer, Dan revealed the brace had really turned down the accidental successful the past.

“We were asked earlier and it didn’t consciousness similar the close clip for immoderate reason,” the 41-year-old precocious told the LA Times successful a associated interview with his dad. “Then we were asked again this year, and I deliberation ran retired of reasons not to bash it. It seemed similar a amusive small challenge—not little, rather immense actually.”

A situation they were blessed to accept, but hesitant to instrumentality on.

“We were some evidently benignant of nervous, due to the fact that it’s benignant of a pugnacious happening to do,” Eugene explained. “You’re letting yourself retired determination and whatever, whatever, is it worthy it? We could seashore into the autumn rather easy without doing this and person a amusive clip watching it connected TV. But I conjecture thing was drafting america into it.”

But arsenic Dan—who, on with his father, racked up rather a fewer Emmys successful the past for their enactment connected Schitt’s Creek—noted, they were assured successful their quality to acceptable the tone.

“It truly comes down to wanting it to consciousness celebratory, not wanting it to beryllium excessively hard but inactive wanting a spot of an edge,” helium added. “People, from what I’ve been told, are benignant of excited that we’re not hard-edged comics, that determination volition beryllium a benignant of warmth to the room. It’s trying to wed each of those things without being boring, ultimately.”

Read connected to spot each celeb successful the gathering astatine the 2024 Emmys.