Emmys 2021: Cedric the Entertainer, a Biz Markie rap fest, and ‘Ted Lasso’ kick off the festivities

Host Cedric the Entertainer and a trio of celebrated rappers — LL Cool J, Lil Dicky, and, um, Rita Wilson? — kicked disconnected the enactment astatine the Emmys connected Sunday with a TV-centric mentation of the precocious Biz Markie’s astir celebrated song.

“TV … you’ve got what I need,” they and nominees from Michael Douglas and Billy Porter to Anthony Anderson and Tracee Ellis Ross sang arsenic the Emmys returned to an in-person mounting this year. “But you accidental he’s conscionable a friend, you accidental he’s conscionable a friend.”

And hey, TV is our friend, and who’s friendlier than Ted Lasso and his pals connected the eponymous Apple+ comedy?

Two of Ted’s friends took location the archetypal 2 awards handed retired connected Sunday, with Hannah Waddingham and Brett Goldstein taking location the awards for champion supporting histrion and histrion successful a drama for their roles successful “Ted Lasso.”

“Jason, you changed my beingness with this, and much importantly my babe girls. Oh my god, I’m giving a code astatine the Emmys,” said an exuberant Waddingham.

Goldstein, successful turn, took the signifier and announced he’d been told helium perfectly was not allowed to curse connected signifier — and past ended up with a bully 4th of his code muted for that precise reason.