Though the show itself was largely a snooze (if “they gave out awards and nothing mind-meltingly stupid happened” is boring to you), one highlight of the 2022 Emmy Awards was a blink-and-miss-it cameo from Kel Mitchell—the old Nickelodeon comedy partner of Emmys host Kenan Thompson. It came in a completely unrelated skit that Thompson was doing with “honorary bartender” Kumail Nanjiani, during which Nanjiani fumbled with bottles and lamented the fact that “honorary bartender” was a job and no...

Though the show itself was largely a snooze (if “they gave out awards and nothing mind-meltingly stupid happened” is boring to you), one highlight of the 2022 Emmy Awards was a blink-and-miss-it cameo from Kel Mitchell—the old Nickelodeon comedy partner of Emmys host Kenan Thompson. It came in a completely unrelated skit that Thompson was doing with “honorary bartender” Kumail Nanjiani, during which Nanjiani fumbled with bottles and lamented the fact that “honorary bartender” was a job and no...