At the 2026 Emmy Awards on Monday night, Noah Kahan took the Peacock Theater stage to perform “Bridge Over Troubled Water” as the awards ceremony paused for its traditional In Memoriam segment. This year, the ceremony looked back on lost stars including Rob Reiner, Sam Neill, Tim Curry, Isaiah Whitlock Jr., James Van Der Beek, and Catherine O’Hara.
O’Hara received a special tribute at the beginning of the ceremony from her past screen children Macaulay Culkin, Annie Murphy, and Dan Levy, while Jamie Lee Curtis came out to remember late TV director James Burrows as well as Reiner.
Prior to the show, producer Jesse Collins told Variety that Kahan chose the Paul Simon song because it’s “very meaningful to him. Paul Simon is one of his favorite artists. So it was really about coming up with an arrangement that does the song justice. He’s such a pure musician, and he’s worked really hard with our team to create something I think people are going to love.”
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Watch Kahan’s performance below and other clips from the In Memoriam segment below, and check out the full Emmys 2026 winners list from the night.
Catherine O’Hara is honored by Macaulay Culkin, Annie Murphy and Dan Levy in an emotional tribute at the #Emmys: “She was our mama.”
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— Variety (@Variety) September 15, 2026
James Van Der Beek, Eric Dane, Hayden Panettiere, Robert Duvall, Dolly Parton, Rob Reiner e Tim Curry são alguns dos homenageados do In Memoriam do #Emmys pic.twitter.com/7uqwkShNDv
— Hugo Gloss (@HugoGloss) September 15, 2026