Comedian Anthony Anderson may’ve hosted the seventy fifth Emmy Awards on Monday night time, but it surely was his mother, Doris Hancox, who stole the present.
At the awards ceremony at Peacock Theater in Los Angeles, Anderson, 53, kicked off the present with a nostalgic monologue about traditional TV exhibits, together with “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood,” “Good Times” and “Miami Vice.”
Anderson revealed that this yr’s present could be sans conventional orchestral play-off music every time a winner went over their allotted speech time.
Explaining that 27 Emmys could be handed out by way of the night and that winners would wish to forgo lengthy acceptance speeches to maintain the present on schedule, he revealed he’d tapped Hancox to be the “play-off mama” to good-naturedly heckle individuals to wrap it up in the event that they talked too lengthy.
“Tonight, my mama, she is going to be the Emmys’ ‘play-off mama.’ When you see my mama coming, just thank Jesus and your family, and wrap it up,” Anderson joked to the gang.
He added: “And I don’t want nobody to get disrespectful with my mama, because my mama is from the west side of Chicago, and she can throw hands.”
Not too lengthy into the “Black-ish” star’s speech, his mom stood up and blasted him for taking too lengthy.
“Shut up!” she advised the 11-time Emmy nominee. “I want to go to the after-parties.”
Clearly Anderson received his comedic chops from his mother as a result of her response to him persevering with his monologue was priceless.
“Time’s up, baby,” she fired again at Anderson. “Wrap it up.”
Though the star-studded present’s viewers appeared tickled by his mother’s no-nonsense spirit, some X (previously Twitter) customers discovered the bit to be a cute concept gone unhealthy or simply downright “rude.”
Other X customers discovered Anderson and Hancox’s strategy to be “genius.”
See an entire record of winners from the seventy fifth Emmy Awards right here.
