Andy Samberg To Host 2015 Emmy Awards Show

Find Out The 'Who' and 'Where'

Story by David Clark

Emmy Award winner Andy Samberg has been selected to host the 2015 Emmy Awards show at the Nokia Theatre (Los Angeles) in September. The national broadcast will be airing live on Fox. An interesting decision given that it will be in direct competition with the ever popular National Football League’s Sunday night game. If aired two weeks earlier, the awards show would not have had such stiff competition.

Programming aside, for the people at home who enjoy watching celebrities win trophies, this year's show should be entertaining. Samberg should be a solid selection to take the show back to the heights reached when hosted by individuals like Conan O’Brien and Neil Patrick Harris. A host is integral to maintaining the attention of the audience, and to command the ratings a network hopes to receive when backing this type of an event. Being able to stand center-stage and carry the attention of an audience is not something everyone can do.

Samberg is the type of well rounded individual that was born to be a host. His resume is loaded with awards and nominations for his writing, acting, singing, and producing. He has extensive experience in performing live under pressure from his time on Saturday Night Live. He has a great sense of what does and does not work when performing comedy because of his time as a writer. His comedic timing has been honed from years of starring in movies, performing live, and from acting on television. Simply put, he has already done almost everything a person can do in the entertainment industry except host an awards show.

Bruce Rosenblum, Chairman and CEO of the Television Academy, worded his opinion of Andy Samberg like this:

“It’s wonderfully fitting that we have Andy Samberg, an Emmy Award winner himself, as our host for this year’s Primetime Emmy Awards… Andy has excelled in all aspects of the television universe, both from behind and in front of the camera. His humor, insights, and charisma will be an exciting addition to our annual celebration of television's best and brightest."

While experience does not guarantee a hosts performance will be great, it is unlikely that Samberg's hosting will be compared to the poor jobs done by hosts like Bryant Gumbel (1996), David Pierce (1999), or even of the most recent hosting performance by the stiff Seth Meyers (2014).

The Emmy Awards show is still six months away but Samberg has already warned people to, "Buckle your seat belts, Emmy Viewers!" Until the Emmys, Samberg can be found working as a lead character and detective on the comedy show Brooklyn Nine-Nine.

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Sources: Emmys.com; CBS