“Thanks to him we don’t have to watch reality shows because we’re living one”, he joked about Burnett.
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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”.
“Are you rooting for O.J.to win this time?”, Kimmel asked Clark.
“Oh, my God. Please tell me you’re seeing this too”, said a stunned Malek, who plays an emotionally troubled engineer caught up in a unsafe hacking conspiracy. Aziz Ansari and Alan Yang won for writing on a comedy series for the Netflix series “Master of None”.
“America Ferrera”, he said to the actress. While the Italians have The Godfather, The Sopranos, Goodfellas and other beloved entertainment, “We got Long Duck Dong”, he said in a relatively obscure 16 Candles reference. We get it: Celebrities starve themselves in the name of fashion.
The Saturday Night Live breakout star has had a rollercoaster year, landing a huge role in Ghostbusters and working for the NBC team at the Rio Olympics while also fighting off racist Internet trolls and hackers who leaked her private photos.
“Veep” repeated as best comedy series and its star, Julia-Louis Dreyfus, won a record-breaking sixth Emmy as best comedy actress. Kimmel had some fun with the not-typically-comedic half-hour being classified as a comedy. “Transparent was born a drama but identifies as a comedy”, quipped Kimmel.
Julia Louis-Dreyfus won her fifth consecutive best-actress Emmy for her role as a gaffe-prone politician in HBO’s ” Veep” (bringing her career total to eight wins and 22 nominations).
“We gave the script to a few people”. “Thank you, Ellen DeGeneres, thank you, Hillary Clinton”, she said, naming two of the famous people she has impersonated on the show.
She promised to rebuild the wall between comedy and politics and “make Mexico pay for it”. “It was political satire, and now it’s a sobering documentary”.
Kerry Washington, who is pregnant with her second child, wore a strapless gown that had a front cutout for her baby bump.
The Emmy shower comes just after “Game of Thrones” announced it would push back its production schedule for its shortened seventh season. The two were on The Larry Sanders Show together. Jeffrey Tambor won the Emmy for Outstanding Actor in a Comedy Series.
Kit Harrington and Andy Samberg (right) act as they present an award at the 68th Primetime Emmy Awards in Los Angeles, California September 16, 2016.
“I would not be unhappy where I the last cis-gender male to play a transgender female on television”, Tambor said during his acceptance speech.
Moore said, “Whether physical competition or a talent show, a reality series can lead to fortune and fame”.
Decider kept a running tally of Emmy wins by network throughout the night. “Miley Cyrus or CLo?”
There were plenty of O.J. jokes in Kimmel’s monologue. Meantime, veterans like comedians Tina Fey and Amy Poehler also got recognition.
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In the hotly competitive limited series category, the FX standout, “The People v. O.J. Simpson” which garnered 22 nominations, often came up a victor – as expected. Long-time Murphy collaborator Sarah Paulson, a mainstay of the American Horror Story series, won for her portrayal of Marcia Clark – who actually attended the ceremony as Paulson’s guest – with Courtney B. Vance beating out his co-star Cuba Gooding Jr. for his performance as Johnnie Cochran.
