But it was Dame Maggie Smith, doyenne of British acting, who got special attention during Kimmel’s opening monologue. “If you want an Emmy you better get on a plane and get your Dowager Countess ass over here”.
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Mr. Kimmel added: “Thanks to Mark Burnett, we don’t have to watch reality shows anymore, because we’re living in one”.
“There are days when things we think of pale in comparison to that madman threatening Hillary Clinton not once but twice”, Mandel said.
Were it not for Trump having been hired to host “Celebrity Apprentice”, he wouldn’t now be running for president, Kimmel declared. “No, he would be at home right now quietly rubbing up against his wife Malaria while she pretends to be asleep” Kimmel joked, referring, of course referring to Trump’s wife, Melania.
There will be more than ego tallies at the awards, with diversity in Hollywood an ongoing issue. If ever the rumors about the TV series’ last two season are true, then most likely, people will be more in tune with the series and even be obsessed with it. “The Oscars are now telling people we’re one of their closest friends – we’re not by the way”.
Other than being glad her friends from Jacksonville were watching the Emmys, Martindale said she hopes her movie “The Hollars” is released in the area soon, because she’s eager for folks to see it. This prompted Aziz Ansari to get up from his seat in jest.
Jeb Bush returned to the public spotlight as Emmy’s host Jimmy Kimmel’s Uber driver. While the gesture was cute, it reminded us of the 2014 Oscars with Ellen DeGeneres ordering pizza.
“Saturday Night Live” cast member Kate McKinnon won the trophy for best supporting actress in a comedy for, officially, playing various characters.
“She goes to other awards!”
On the director’s side, people of color and women both made modest year-to-year gains during the 2015-16 television season.
Paulson, who played prosecutor Marcia Clark, brought her as a guest and singled her out from the stage. “Because there’s a little bit of Elliot in all of us, isn’t there?”
Let’s start with the first (surprising, deserving) victor of the night: Louie Anderson, Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series for his brazen, affecting matriarichal turn in Baskets.
Perhaps Kimmel’s most well-crafted remark, which sparked a roar of approval from the audience as much for its pithiness as its wit: The much-honored Amazon transgender series “Transparent”, he said, “was born a drama, but it identifies as a comedy”.
Actress Julia Louis-Dreyfus, accepting her fifth consecutive best actress Emmy for Veep, jokingly lamented that real politics was beginning to resemble the Washington world her comedy series pokes fun at.
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However, Martindale said she feels “The Americans” is starting to gain more attention from viewers. Later in the show, “Orange is the New Black” star Laverne Cox echoed the sentiment and said she would not be where she is without the producers who gave her the first chance.
