The 2026 Emmys have officially wrapped up, and now that we’ve admired all the outfits and evaluated Mariska Hargitay’s hosting chops (I think she nailed it, personally, but maybe she’s just genial enough to make me root for her in general), it’s time to look back at some of the night’s highlights. Below, find a roundup of the very best moments from the 2026 Emmys:

Nick Offerman’s weird “erotic painter” bit

Did I totally follow Hargitay’s bit of crowd work in which she asked celebrities about their first jobs and Offerman did a long riff about getting naked and painting houses? No, but that’s the joy of Nick Offerman.

Alan Cumming reminding everyone to register to vote

Tomorrow is National Voter Registration Day, and now we all know that because Cumming shouted it out while accepting the outstanding reality competition Emmy on behalf of The Traitors. How charmingly civic-minded!

John Mulaney going full Mulaney mode

It’s always a delight to see Mulaney at an awards show (there’s a reason I constantly rewatch the clips of him and Nick Kroll hosting the Independent Spirit Awards), but hearing him get bleeped for a very long time while quoting DJ Khaled and reading advice aloud from a guide to acting he found at the Glendale public library? That’s my designated comedian crush.

Rachel Sennott making fun of actor drama while presenting the Emmy for…outstanding supporting actor in a drama

“Two guys in wigs just slamming trailer doors because one of them looks taller on camera? Heaven.” Genuine LOL.

That Swiftie/SVU pretape

Watching Hargitay step into her Law & Order: SVU role as Olivia Benson to solve the case of whether Taylor Swift would be present at the Emmys ended in the most climactic way possible…with Swift herself showing up! Sort of! Never forget that one of her cats’ names is Olivia Benson!

Stephen Colbert’s sweet shout-out to his wife

“Yours is the laugh that I want for the rest of my life,” the comedian told his wife, Evelyn McGee Colbert, who was in the audience to watch him and his writing staff accept their last Emmy as a team (sob), for outstanding variety series. Funny and deeply romantic? Some girls have all the luck.

The tributes to Dolly Parton and Catherine O’Hara

I mean, was there a dry eye in the house when Reba McEntire took the stage to sing “Appalachian Memories” in honor of the recently departed country legend? What about when Macaulay Culkin, Dan Levy, and Annie Murphy reflected on working alongisde O’Hara? Well, there certainly wasn’t where I live.

Macaulay Culkin, Dan Levy, and Annie Murphy’s tribute to Catherine O’Hara

“That was Catherine. That was what she did. She showed up,” a visibly emotional Culkin said of O’Hara, with Murphy calling her laugh “a perpetual yes, and” and her Schitt’s Creek co-star Levy reflecting that O’Hara was always “miles ahead.”

Woody Harrelson and Matthew McConaughey simply enjoying each other’s company

When you’re presenting the last Emmy of the night, it behooves you to get a move on…unless you’re Harrelson and McConaughey, who came up to plug their new show Brothers and basically just cracked each other up by, among other things, taking forever to announce the winner of the outstanding comedy series Emmy. (Harrelson saying “Let’s really taffy it out” is now preserved in my brain forever.)

Jean Smart sweeping

With her fifth consecutive win for her performance as Deborah Vance on Hacks, Smart became the first actress to win an Emmy for every season of a show’s run. And she wasn’t the only person to make history on Monday night: Matthew Rhys also became the first man to win best lead actor in a drama, a comedy, and a limited series across his career—and to have two of those wins (for his work on Widow’s Bay and The Beast in Me) occur on the same night. (Rhys’s best-actor-in-a-drama-series victory came during his days on The Americans.)

This article was originally published on Vogue.com.