The 2016 Emmy Award victor for Best Supporting Actor is Louie Anderson, who won by channeling his mother for a complex role in FX’s challenging, refreshing, and amusing comedy Baskets.
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Louie Anderson’s work as Christine Baskets was one of the highlights of the 2015-16 television season.
“Mom – we did it”, shouted Anderson when he got his award.
“I have not always been a very good man, but I play one hell of a woman”, Anderson said during his acceptance speech.
The veteran stand-up from St. Paul took home an Emmy for supporting actor in a comedy series, the LA Times reports, upsetting the odds that had “Veep’s” Tony Hale and “The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt’s” Titus Burgess as favorites. “Who I stole every nuance, shameful look, cruel look, loving look, passive-aggressive line”. Reiterating his earlier tribute to his mother, Anderson added that he borrows many of his comic bits from her, saying “this is her award”, Anderson said Baskets is about “not fitting in, and then fitting in perfectly…”
He also thanked other members of the “Baskets” team including Louis C.K., Zach Galifianakis and Jonathan Krisel.
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Meanwhile, Ghostbusters actress McKinnon was another first-time Emmy victor, scoring the Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series for Saturday Night Live.
