Emmy host Andy Samberg opened the 67th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards with a pre-taped musical act that mirrored his popular digital shorts during his tenure at "Saturday Night Live." The 37-year-old comedian even parodied the "I'd Like to Buy the World a Coke" commercial that was featured in the final episode of the AMC show "Mad Men."
Sunday's opening number showed Samberg desperately trying to catch up on all the incredible television shows that were nominated and on the air in the last year. He fell short. The pre-taped skit started with Samberg at a dinner party where he and the guests discussed popular TV shows that included "Game of Thrones," "Orange is the New Black," "Mad Men," "Empire," "House of Cards" and more. Samberg said he had not seen any of the shows mentioned and got overwhelmed at the number of shows that were discussed.
The "Lonely Island" member then broke into song and locked himself in a bunker so that he could catch up on the TV shows he had missed out on. Samberg emerged from the bunker one year later and exclaimed he "watched every show, every single episode."
Samberg then found "Mad Men" actor Jon Hamm and "Scandal" star Kerry Washington and told them he watched both their shows before he was informed by Nathan Fillion that he did not watch "Castle." He surfaced once again 151 hours later and announced he had finally seen every show.
Later in the Emmy broadcast, Samberg re-created a scene from the final episode of "Mad Men" that featured a famous Coco-Cola commercial. In the scene, Don Draper took up meditation after he hit personal and professional low points in his life, reported Variety. The experience led him to come up with the idea for the famous 1971 Coke commercial that showed young people from all over the world as they sung about world peace on top of a hilltop.
Check out both of Sandberg's hilarious pre-tapped Emmy bits below!
