It would be hard for anyone to top the hilarious Stephen Colbert's sharp, politically-charged opening song and monologue at the 2017 Emmy Awards, but the show was actually surprisingly funny. Dolly Parton, Anna Faris and Jon Oliver all brought the funny, plus former Press Secretary Sean Spicer showed up and got a few laughs, probably at his expense, but still. Some of the most hilarious quips about the ceremony came not from inside the Microsoft Theater but from Twitter.

Here, some of the funniest Tweets about the show:

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Okay, that's all the Billy Eichner #content.

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And always...

From: ELLE US
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R. Eric Thomas

R. Eric Thomas is a columnist for ELLE.com, where he skewers politics, pop culture, celebrity shade, and schadenfreude. He is also the author of Here for It: Or, How to Save Your Soul in America, a memoir-in-essays.