The ramp was signed off by an engineer as ADA compliant. Stewart, however, said that’s “quite simply wrong. But after the show, he told Variety that the network “lied to me.” After earlier filing an ADA complaint about the telecast, LeBrecht had been told there would be one. On Sunday, disability rights advocate James LeBrecht said he was “furious” with CBS after he didn’t see a fully accessible, visible ramp on the Emmys stage. Meanwhile, Stewart also wanted to clear up the confusion over whether there was an ADA-compliant ramp connected to the stage. What you sort of hope is that at least when they hear the music, which wasn’t overpowering, they’d say, ‘ OK, my time is up, I probably should get off here.’ As I say, just out of respect to your fellow nominees, there’s just a thing called time. That’s the problem with cutting the mic or playing the play off music over them, when they may be saving the very poignant thing to say to the end, and you’ll just ruin the moment for them,” he said. And also, of course, you don’t know what they’re about to say. Stewart said he doesn’t cut microphones, however, because you never know if that’s the moment the acceptance speech is about to get emotional or personal. It’s just incredibly disrespectful to your fellow nominees.” If you think that you have to speak for four or five minutes, that means somebody else can’t. I’d love them to be able to speak for half an hour if they wanted to. So they know what they are doing and the simple fact is, they know there’s only a finite amount of time. They understand what’s going on, it’s their industry. “I don’t want to go through that again,” Stewart said. That’s because he took time to hug people (which, insiders note, included his competitors in the category as a sign of gratitude) on the way to the stage, and then didn’t acknowledge multiple attempts by the producers to raise the music and tip him off that he needed to wrap things up. So, it’s deeply frustrating.”Īs for Frank’s speech, from the time his name was announced until the time he left the stage, it was over four minutes (longer than Cedric the Entertainer’s monologue). I’ve done 50 productions nearly in COVID and not have people get sick. We work in this industry, we’re desperately aware of COVID. Because we wanted the audience to know how safe it was in there. “And then we just sort of played catch up. “It made three months of very hard work and many, many discussions to get it absolutely right feel a little bit wasted, really,” Stewart says. The show producers quickly made sure that host Cedric the Entertainer and the night’s DJ, Reggie Watts, spelled out the lengths the producers went to keeping the tent - which was still much more flexible for safety concerns than holding it inside a theater - and its attendees were compliant. “We’re in a hermetically sealed tent right now. “What are we doing? They said this was outdoors. Kicking off with the first award of the night, Rogen jumped into a standup chunk on the fact that the Emmys had gathered 500 to 600 people together in a large tent. This is the health authorities’ decision as well, to say that it’s a completely safe environment if you do all those things.” So, I just felt it was an unfortunate misdirect from him. Everyone was negative tested in that audience. We were signed off by LA County, we came up with a plan with them. “We’ve worked with all the health authorities. “We have worked for months and months to make that a safe space,” Stewart said. What steams Stewart is that Rogen had participated in a rehearsal earlier that day, and very well knew the tent setup for this year’s show and how the COVID safety precautions had been put in place. They also addressed Conan O’Brien’s also very unexpected show interruptions - which were very much welcome - and what we didn’t get to see (including Bernie Sanders) as the telecast went long.īut what got traction at the start of the night was Rogen’s chastising of the ceremony. On a much brighter note, the duo celebrated this year’s ratings uptick, which they hope is a positive sign for all awards shows.

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