18 best moments from Emmys 2020

Due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, Emmys 2020, the 72nd edition of the awards that honour the best in television programming, was held virtually. Here are the best moments from the award ceremony. (Photo: The Television Academy and ABC Entertainment via AP)

Host Jimmy Kimmel made the most of the award ceremony despite the absence of television heavyweights in the audience. (Photo: The Television Academy and ABC Entertainment via AP)

Jimmy Kimmel with Emmys 2020 nominees in the background. (Photo: The Television Academy and ABC Entertainment via)

Regina King won the Emmy in the Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie category for her performance in Watchmen as Angela Abar/Sister Night. She defeated heavy-weights like Cate Blanchett and Octavia Spencer. The actor began by saying, "This is so freaking weird," basically encapsulating what all of us thought while watching the awards ceremony. (Photo: The Television Academy and ABC Entertainment via AP)

Eugene Levy, left, hugs his son Daniel Levy, after the latter's win in the Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series category for Schitt's Creek.

Schitt's Creek, about a formerly wealthy family that has to move to a small town that they purchased as a joke, swept the comedy category at the Emmys. (Photo: The Television Academy and ABC Entertainment via AP)

Jeremy Strong is all smiles as he accepts the Outstanding Lead Actor In A Drama Series award for HBO's Succession. (Photo: The Television Academy and ABC Entertainment via AP)

Zendaya is Euphoric? The actor-singer won an Emmy trophy in the Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series category for her performance in HBO's Euphoria. (PhotoThe Television Academy and ABC Entertainment via AP)

Mark Ruffalo won his first ever acting Emmy. Here he is seen with the Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie award for his performance in HBO miniseries I Know This Much Is True. (Photo: The Television Academy and ABC Entertainment via AP)

The Watchmen team, including the creator Damon Lindelof, during the Emmy ceremony. The comic-book series won 4 trophies. (Photo: The Television Academy and ABC Entertainment via AP)

Comedian and political commentator John Oliver looked suitably delighted as he accepted the Emmy trophy for Outstanding Variety Talk Series for his HBO show Last Week Tonight. (Photo: The Television Academy and ABC Entertainment via AP)

Presenter Jennifer Aniston and host Jimmy Kimmel, literally, set the stage on fire by trying to "sanitise" the envelopes. (Photo: The Television Academy and ABC Entertainment via)

The Emmys 2020 had a little Friends reunion with the female cast of the iconic sitcom, Lisa Kudrow, Jennifer Aniston and Courteney Cox, making a surprise appearance. (Photo: The Television Academy and ABC Entertainment via AP)

Jason Bateman may not have won the Emmy trophy (for Ozark in the Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series category), but he did manage to make a splash. He interrupted Jimmy Kimmel's monologue by hiding among the cardboard audiences at Staples Center. (Photo: The Television Academy and ABC Entertainment via)

Randall Park appeared at the ceremony with an alpaca. The Always Be My Maybe actor joked, "I learned that when you read an email too quickly, the phrase, ‘You’re presenting with an alpaca’ looks a lot like the phrase, ‘You’re presenting with Al Pacino.’" (Photo: The Television Academy and ABC Entertainment via)

Jason Sudeikis got a Covid-19 swab test done as he presented the award for Outstanding Comedy Series during the broadcast. (Photo: The Television Academy and ABC Entertainment via)

Veteran talk show host David Letterman presented the award in the Outstanding Variety Talk Series category from a remote location. The trophy went to John Oliver. (Photo: The Television Academy and ABC Entertainment via)

Christopher Cassidy, an astronaut with NASA and a US Navy captain, spoke from the International Space Station. (Photo: The Television Academy and ABC Entertainment via)

The Emmys paid tribute to late jurist and feminist icon Ruth Bader Ginsburg in the In Memoriam segment. (Photo: The Television Academy and ABC Entertainment via AP)

The In Memoriam segment also remembered Chadwick Boseman, the Black Panther star who died due to colon cancer earlier this year, sending shock waves across the industry. (Photo: The Television Academy and ABC Entertainment via AP)