Breaking Bad stars Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul team up with Julia Louis-Dreyfus for Emmys video

BREAKING Bad co-stars Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul have reunited for a new Emmys video — and Julia Louis-Dreyfus is along for the ride too.

IN a bid to get you to watch the Emmys next Tuesday, the awards show has managed to assemble a few of everyone’s favourite nominees for a short comedy sketch.

In the spoof of a pawn shop reality show, Julia Louis-Dreyfus attempts to pawn one of her four Emmy Awards (she won one for Seinfeld, one for The New Adventures of Old Christine, and two for Veep) to pawn shop clerks played by former Breaking Bad stars Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul. The negotiations eventually lead to Louis-Dreyfus’ discovery of the illicit business the pair is running out of the back of the shop, and it’s not the one you might expect.

All three actors are up for awards on Monday — Louis-Dreyfus for lead actress in a comedy, and the Breaking Bad co-stars for lead (Cranston) and supporting (Paul) actor in a drama. The six-minute spoof is itself reminiscent of an awards show — star-studded, occasionally funny, and about twice as long as it needs to be — but it’s still nice to see Walt and Jesse back together again.

Julia Louis-Dreyfus drops by to hock her prized Emmy award.

This article is republished with permission from Slate.

Originally published as Breaking Bad stars Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul team up with Julia Louis-Dreyfus for Emmys video