“Our show started out as a political satire, but it now feels like a sobering documentary”, she said, drawing laughs from the crowd before concluding on a serious note about the death of her father on Friday.
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Veep won the Outstanding Comedy Series award for the second year in a row, while its star Julia Louis-Dreyfus won Outstanding Lead Comedy Actress for the fifth time, thus making Emmy record. “It’s called the Maggie Smith Rule”, Kimmel joked, in a bit that became a running gag during the awards show.
Surprisingly, ABC, CBS, NBC, and Fox, the four main channels that host the Emmy broadcast, only received four of the 27 awards.
“Saturday Night Live” cast member Kate McKinnon won the trophy for best supporting actress in a comedy for, officially, playing various characters. The majority went to linear TV broadcasters (two to Adult Swim/Cartoon Network and one to FX Networks).
“Mom, we did it!”, Anderson shouted, hoisting his trophy and dedicating the award to his late mother, Ora Zella Anderson.
Master of None scored its first Emmy award, winning Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series.
Other Emmy newcomers included Canadian Tatiana Maslany, a surprise best drama actress victor who beat out presumed front runner Robin Wright for playing a woman with multiple cloned personalities in ‘Orphan Black‘.
Donald Trump’s Twitter plate is packed for tomorrow morning, compliments of tonight’s politically jammed Emmy Awards.
“Look, it’s an election year and after careful consideration I decided I’m going with Trump, which is why I’m also recommending we get rid of all all Muslim and Hispanic nominees from the ceremony immediately”.
Jill Soloway, creator of the show “Transparent” launched the event’s most direct attack on Trump, calling him a “monster”.
His opening skit included jokes with former GOP presidential candidate Jeb Bush (“Did you know you can make $12 an hour driving for Uber?”) and his opening monologue tweaked Donald Trump by goofing on Mark Burnett, who created “The Apprentice”.
“Simpson” for best limited series was the most widely predicted victory of the night, and the show – a scripted drama recounting the American football star’s shocking fall from grace – swept up acting prizes.
Drama Series: “Game of Thrones” (HBO) Comedy Series: “Veep” (HBO) Mini-Series or Movie: “The People v”.
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Jeffrey Tambor won best lead actor in a comedy series for his role in the Amazon series Transparent and urged the TV industry to provide more opportunities for transgender actors. In her acceptance speech, Paulson apologized to Clark for the vitriol she had to endure during the O.J. Simpson trial in the mid-1990s. The FX anthology show, which revisited the murder trial of O.J. Simpson, almost swept its nominated categories with awards for best limited series, outstanding writing and acting (for Sterling K. Brown, Sarah Paulson and Courtney B. Vance).
