When the victor was called for outstanding supporting actress drama series the audience let out a bout of laughter to learn it was Smith.
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If you missed the Emmys, you may have missed host Jimmy Kimmel’s joke about Maggie not deserving her award because she wasn’t there.
When Minnie Driver and Michael Weatherly announced the star had won the award during Sunday’s ceremony, Jimmy jokingly grabbed the gong and said: “Maggie, if you want this, it will be in the lost and found”. “GoT” has broken the record of ‘Frasier, ‘ one of the most critically acclaimed comedy series of all time that won a total of 37 Primetime Emmy Awards during its 11-year run, reports the Guardian.
The People v OJ Simpson, a dramatic retelling of the football star’s murder trial, was named best limited series, also earning awards for stars Courtney B Vance, Sterling K Brown and Sarah Paulson.
Its 12 awards at this year’s bash in Los Angeles included another nine in technical categories. “British people will get that”.
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“I think that “Veep” has torn down the wall between comedy and politics”.
“Our show started out as political satire, but now it feels like a sober documentary”, she said.
Did you watch the Emmys this year? That ties the record it set previous year, when it scored the most Emmy wins for a series in a single season.
Or maybe you didn’t know that and that’s cool too.
“Game of Thrones” will open the door for others next year, since the later premiere of Season 7 means the HBO flagship series will be ineligible for the 2017 Emmys.
Jimmy Kimmel (L) accepts the award for Outstanding Supporting Actress In A Drama Series on behalf of Maggie Smith for “Downton Abbey” and says she has to pick it up in the lost and found..
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”.
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“Saturday Night Live” comedian Kate McKinnon, who plays Democratic U.S. presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, won supporting comedy actress, and John Oliver’s biting “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver” won the Emmy for variety talk series.
