While at the 70th Primetime Emmy Awards, Donald Glover (or some body double) dressed up as Teddy Perkins from Atlanta.
See, here he is hugging Bill Hader:
And here he is sitting in his seat clapping:
As the above tweet alluded to, Glover failed to take home the statue (or whatever the hell the informal name for an Emmy is) for "Lead Actor in a Comedy Series" which, instead, went to Hader for Barry. Still, social media attention is just as good as winning an Emmy, right? Nah. Not at all. But you take what you can get sometimes:
Worth noting is that Donald Glover, sans whiteface, was also spotted in the crowd. So this was either a quick change or some Tony Clifton-level shit:
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