LOS ANGELES ¨C Some 11.4 million Americans watched Sunday¡¯s Emmy awards on television in a ceremony marked by jokes and jibes at U.S. President Donald Trump and where ¡°Saturday Night Live¡± was the biggest winner.
Broadcaster CBS said on Monday that the 2017 audience was in line with that of last year, which attracted a record low of 11.3 million viewers.
Emmys host Stephen Colbert has ruthlessly attacked Trump on his ¡°The Late Show,¡± and many of the winners and presenters made barbed comments about Trump and his policies during Sunday¡¯s three-hour ceremony honoring the best of television.
NBC¡¯s satirical sketch show ¡°Saturday Night Live¡± won nine Emmys, including statuettes for Trump impersonator Alec Baldwin, Melissa McCarthy¡¯s skits on former White House spokesman Sean Spicer, Kate McKinnon¡¯s turns as losing presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and White House aide Kellyanne Conway.
Spicer, who resigned in July, also made a surprise appearance at Sunday¡¯s ceremony doing an impression of himself, and he later did the rounds of industry after-parties in Los Angeles.
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