Father-son duo Eugene and Dan Levy will take a “gentler strategy” to their Emmys internet hosting gig this Sunday. The TV stars stated this week they hope to pay tribute to tv with their highlight.
“Simply paying tribute to tv, definitely the nominees, however to the medium that gave us each our begins,” Eugene stated in a Los Angeles Occasions profile he shares along with his son. “It’s at all times hit me in a humorous approach when jokes are completed on the expense of people who find themselves nominated — they’ve put within the work, and it’s their night time, actually, and it’s a must to have sufficient respect for the awards present itself. In any other case, why are we right here?”
Dan added they each need the present “to really feel celebratory” whereas nonetheless sustaining “a little bit of an edge.” Come Sunday, he and Eugene would be the first father-son duo to host tv’s large night time.
“Individuals, from what I’ve been informed, are type of excited that we’re not hard-edged comics, that there might be a type of heat to the room,” Dan continued. “It’s making an attempt to marry all of these issues with out being boring, in the end. However we’re getting there.”
Eugene stated the wedding of heat and edge that Dan referenced hopefully leads to “a kinder, gentler strategy.”
“It’s true, we’re not comedians, however we’re type of humorous working collectively,” Eugene added. “It’s a relationship that was solid on Schitt’s Creek, and it appears to proceed. It actually works for each of us, and I assume for whoever stated, ‘Come on and do it.’”
Elsewhere within the profile, Dan revealed that this 12 months wasn’t the primary time he and his father have been requested to host the ceremony.
“We had been requested earlier than and it didn’t really feel like the appropriate time for no matter purpose,” he stated. “Then we had been requested once more this 12 months, and I believe ran out of causes to not do it. It appeared like a enjoyable little problem — not little, fairly large really.”