Ema Honors: Host Liza Koshy Opens the Show

We are so fortunate to have an actual force of nature, an actual force of nature, the most beautiful and authentic young advocate who just happens to have about 50 million followers, a multifaceted influential talent and entrepreneur, her relatable comic sensibility, physicality, and characters have made her one of the industry's hottest stars, recently topping Forbes Hollywood 30 under 30. Longtime environmentalist and multifaceted influential talent and entrepreneur, Liza Koshy. Thank you, Debbie. She smells good, like clean vegan fragrances and formulas. Hello, everybody. Well, I hope everyone made sure to turn the lights off before they left the house tonight because otherwise that's pretty awkward. If you need to get up and go home and go do that, you can go use my electric bird scooter that I rode here. I parked it right outside for you guys. But hey, thank you all for coming tonight on your birds, your bikes, your Teslas, your Prius. Don't give yourself too much credit, though, because that's a hybrid. Just kidding. They're our sponsor. Thank you, Toyota. Thank you. Now, we are all here for a reason. I am here tonight because, well, Greta Thunberg could not host tonight. She is trying to enjoy her childhood. And since she deserves that, I will accept the honor of hosting the EMA honors tonight. I am so proud to stand here tonight and in the future with the Environmental Media Association, an organization that's using the power of storytelling to write a greener and greater future that's better for Greta and the rest of us, too. She can use that hashtag in her presidential campaign. Thank you to the wonderful Debbie. Thank you to the incredible Ed Begley, Jr. Come on. Give it up for them both. And thank you to everybody clapping right now, to this inspiration of a generation. Now, thank you to all of you who I would also describe with very positive adjectives. Big fan, big fan of you all. But to you all who have made improving the quality of our life a priority of their own lives. You are taking care of my children before I've even had a chance to make them. So my future family and I thank you very much for your service. Now, I also, yeah, you can clap for yourself. Go ahead. Yeah, you did that. Now, I also want to share my admiration for your activism and your words, which have spoken to me. Your powerful use of your platform empowered me to step up on this one tonight. Look what you've done. I am one of the many differences you've made and one of the many influences that you've had. Now, my journey began as a Girl Scout. We got any Girl Scouts in the audience? Yeah, y'all are Women Scouts now. Now, on my honor, I will try to serve God in my country and to help all people at all times and live by the Girl Scout law. Yes, I remembered that. I worked on my Gold Award as an environmentalist to help reduce the amount of pollution in Texas lakes. Now, that's how I got started. Yes, but since then, I've continued to work for our world. I am so honored to have had the privilege to work with Vice President Al Gore this year on his climate reality project. His actions caused a reaction within me. And since then, I have continued to align myself even more with those who share the environmental mentality. Now, my mom taught me what would become my life mission, which is to leave it better than I found it. As a younger kid, this was to leave my friends' homes better and cleaner than I found it. But now, it's still my friends' homes. It's our home. It's our world. Now, one example of that is my new role as an ambassador promoting vegan, cruelty-free cosmetics. It's called Saint Moi. It's a great company. Look at my face. There's proof. Now, look what you've done. This is because of you. This is what your work has inspired me to do in my own life. So, let's continue this change and this chain reaction. So, that's a little something about me and my story. So, enough about me. How are y'all feeling tonight? Y'all feeling good? Yeah, you're feeling good and you're looking good. You look good too, Liza. Oh, thank you. It's sustainable, girl. And also, it's pants. I just want to throw that out there. Y'all didn't see that coming. Hello. Now, we put the stars underneath the stars tonight. And evening, the EMA Honors continues to go above and beyond for. Literally, look down. It's beyond me. It's good. It is a sponsor tonight and a game-changing company that is positively impacting climate change by removing the animal from the protein production chain. Snaps for that. Now, I am extremely thankful and invested in their mission. So, our choices as individuals to reduce, reuse, and recycle culminates into another R I would like to add in. Reward. And that reward we receive is our future and the future of those to come after us. And today, your reward may be an award. Yes. So, let's live it up tonight so we can keep living tomorrow and the next day and the next day and the next. Which is why I'm so grateful to Greta for giving us another important wake-up call. And I know we are all here to answer. We need answers. We need solutions from us, from the U.S., and from the world. So, thank you in advance for giving the world even more of an example to follow through all of your work. The desire for sustainability creates a community, right? And I am proud to be part of that celebration tonight. So, please, raise your not single-use plastics but instead maybe your reusable double-insulated cup with a stainless steel straw as we celebrate you all tonight. Cheers. I forgot to bring it up here, but cheers. That's right. That's right. I am excited to continue this journey with you. So, thank you, EMA, for giving this eco-friendly girl a little eco-family. And that corny conclusion shall transition us into the awards you've all been waiting for, working for, and so rightfully deserve. So, it is yet another great honor of mine to introduce our first presenter of the night. He is not just one of the most beloved actors in history, and I'm not just a suck-up, because he's also the beloved godfather of our first honoree. Ladies and gentlemen, please give it up for the Emmy-winning star of Barry, Henry Winkler.