What followed was Kimmel catching rides with everyone from late night host James Corden to politician Jeb Bush and even a dragon from “Game of Thrones”.
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“Veep” star Julia Louis-Dreyfus won her fifth consecutive lead actress in a comedy award.
“Thank you to the BBC who we love above all bakery”.
The show, based on George RR Martin’s novels, has now scooped 38 Emmys, beating Frasier’s record of 37 to become the most-awarded narrative show in Emmy history. Aziz Ansari and Alan Yang won for writing on a comedy series for the Netflix series “Master of None”.
Jeffrey Tambor won best lead actor in a comedy series for his role in the Amazon series Transparent and urged the television industry to provide more opportunities for transgender actors.
“I’d like to dedicate this to my father. who passed away on Friday”, she said. Defeated Republican presidential hopeful Jeb Bush played a cameo role driving an Uber vehicle for hire, boasting to his passenger that he could earn $12 per hour, and asking what it felt like to be “nominated”.
“I’m so glad that he liked Veep because his opinion was the one that really mattered”. “Our show started out as a political satire, but now it seems like a documentary”.
“When Trump builds that wall, the first one going over is Mark Burnett”, Kimmel said mocking Trump’s plan to build a wall between Mexico and the United States. The win broke the record for most Emmys in that category, a three-way tie previously held by Louis-Dreyfus, Candice Bergen and Mary Tyler Moore.
Rami Malek was named best lead actor in a drama series for his role in Mr Robot, while Tatiana Maslany won best actress in a drama series for her performance in BBC America series Orphan Black.
The perennial victor for her role as the Dowager Countess on “Downton Abbey” seldom shows up for the ceremony, and Kimmel threatened her with a total revocation of her awards if she fails to come personally collect them.
Once Kimmel safely took the stage flanked by fiery digital screens, he worked through jabs at numerous year’s major nominees.
The fantasy series also won for writing for a drama (David Benioff and D.B. White), and directing (Miguel Sapochnik).
Did the HBO series “Veep” help set the stage for Donald Trump’s rise in politics?
“A lot of you may not have known who I was but you checked the box anyway, and that makes me very, very happy”, he said.
The Emmys for “The People v. O.J. Simpson” helped boost FX, the 21st Century Fox-owned cable network that has positioned itself as a sanctuary for creative freedom on an ad-supported TV platform.
The series won five trophies, including the award for limited series, movie or special. Sarah Paulson also won her first career Emmy for her portrayal of prosecutor Marcia Clark, whom she brought to the Emmy ceremony.
Clark was not the “the two-dimensional cardboard cutout that I saw on the news” but a “whip-smart” woman dedicated to justice for the case’s victims, Nicole Brown and Ronald Goldman.
Tom Hiddleson, who starred in The Night Manager, presented the award for outstanding directing in a limited series or movie to the show’s director Susanne Bier.
Louie Anderson’s win for supporting actor in a comedy on the FX series “Baskets” was also a refreshing move.
Somewhere out there Jonah Ryan is probably taking credit for this, but everyone knows that’s a lie.
“He calls women pigs if they don’t look like beauty pageant contestants, he blames Muslims and Mexicans for our problems, he makes fun of disabled people”, she said angrily.
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Clinton tweeted back: “Congratulations on your Emmy, Kate!”
