John Mulaney wasn’t letting any jabronis take the stage at the 2026 Emmy Awards.

The celebrated comedian proved why he is one of the greats as he presented the award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series during the Sept. 14 Mariska Hargitay-hosted ceremony at Los Angeles’ Peacock Theatre with a hilarious monologue that left the crowd keeling over with laughter.

“This award is for the guys, just men being men,” Mulaney exclaimed. “Finally, something for the fellas.”

The 44-year-old called the group—consisting of Sterling K. Brown (Paradise), Gary Oldman (Slow Horses), Mark Ruffalo (Task), Rufus Sewell (The Diplomat) and the night’s winner, Noah Wyle (The Pitt)—“a crop of prom kings.”

“They're not soft like the dad on Bluey. No! Guy’s a joke,” Mulaney quipped. “Since the creation of television, men have been historically unrepresented.”

In fact, the Saturday Night Live alum claimed that during the first years of television, “there were no men,” and there were only “beauty contests and children talking to hand puppets until the early ’60s.”

He added, “Until a man walked out and said, ‘Enough. My name is Fonzie and the president's been shot.’”

Mulaney then switched back to the nominees, joking that some of them “do method acting and some do regular, less annoying acting.”

“They can play anything, these nominees,” he continued. “Not just doctors. They can play a cop or an FBI agent or a secret agent. And then that's it. No other examples.”

And in perhaps one of the more surprising moments in his monologue, Mulaney laughed that “it was DJ Khaled who said, ‘Real men don't go down on their wives.’”

“But these nominees know that that is BS,” he mused. “They know there's often less pressure on them if they do that first.”

He then drew the crowd’s attention to a book he was holding, A Guy’s Guide to Being a Man’s Man by actor Frank Vincent, which he pointed out he’d checked out from the Glendale Public Library.

Mulaney began quoting a passage from the book that read, “A man's man can be wearing the best clothes, drinking the finest wine, sitting with the most beautiful woman in Las Vegas, but if he doesn't treat everyone around him with respect and class, he's not a real man's man. He's just a jabroni in a good suit.”

The entire monologue drew peals of laughter from the crowd, who tried to control themselves as Mulaney finally announced all the nominees before calling Wyle up as the winner.

To see who else has taken home an Emmy at the 2026 ceremony, keep reading.

Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie

Sarah Pidgeon, Love Story: John F. Kennedy Jr. & Carolyn Bessette

Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie

Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie

Constance Zimmer, Love Story: John F. Kennedy Jr. & Carolyn Bessette

Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie

Outstanding Host for a Reality or Reality Competition Program