But the Emmys faced football as direct competition, too, thanks to NBC’s Sunday Night Football, which doubtless dragged down the Emmy audience.
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Tambor was first nominated in 1993 for a supporting role of Hank Kingsley in “The Larry Sanders Show”, which garnered three more nominations, but no win.
The Emmy Awards kicked off Sunday after stars walked a sweltering red carpet at the Microsoft Theater in downtown Los Angeles.
On the other side of the fiery event, “Game of Thrones” cast and crew such as Peter Dinklage, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Gwendoline Christie and Sophie Turner celebrated their fantasy show’s four wins.
” Awards won by “Modern Family” after being the best-comedy victor for five years running: One ” for sound mixing.
Jill Soloway won for outstanding comedy director for the “Best New Girl” episode of Transparent.
She added: “If it’s been 67 years since and actress of colour has won an Emmy, then there’s certainly been a line and it needs to be acknowledged just like the emperor being naked in the room”.
“Veep” won the Emmy for outstanding comedy series, with Mel Brooks presenting the award. “It’s so ironic that she came out of jail to “Eye of the Tiger” when you consider how many dudes have boned each other to that song”. It has been a rough year for the actor, who underwent a stint in rehab and broke up with a longtime girlfriend, and the emotion showed on his face. Some of us thought it was time for Mad Men to step back into the breach, but it turns out that the Emmys didn’t just fall in love with Breaking Bad, they fell out of love with Mad Men. The political satire additionally won for Best Comedy Writing, Best Comedy Supporting Actor (Tony Hale), and Best Comedy Actress (Julia Louis-Dreyfus).
After 40 years as one of comedy’s most beloved character actors, Jeffery Tambor won his first Emmy for his transformative performance in Amazon’s Transcendent. Its wins included the coveted prize for Best Drama, a directing gong for David Nutter, and a writing gong for David Benioff and DB Weiss’s work on ‘Mother’s Mercy’.
In her acceptance speech, Ms. Janney told her fellow nominees, “I feel like I won the lottery, because you are all fantastic as well”.
It wasn’t the first Trump joke of the night, as Andy Samberg invoked the Republican presidential candidate in his opening monologue, moving on to joke about Bernie Sanders and Kim Davis.
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“I turned around and realized that people were clapping for me”, he said later backstage. I have to give the show’s producers props for one thing, though: they actually ended the ceremony on time.
