Julia Louis-Dreyfus, accepting her fifth consecutive best actress Emmy for HBO’s “Veep”, jokingly lamented that real politics is beginning to resemble the Washington world her comedy series pokes fun at. “We have work to do”.
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Early on in the show Kimmel announced the Maggie Smith rule that any victor not in attendance would not be receiving their Emmy statue. “He’s a complete unsafe monster and at any moment that I have to call him out for being an inheritor of Hitler I will”. While Dame Maggie Smith was recognised in the supporting actress category for her final “Downton” season as the quick-witted Dowager Countess. Then, turning to Clark, he said, “This must be very odd for you… are you rooting for O.J.to win?”
Television’s biggest stars took over Los Angeles’ Microsoft Theater on Sunday, September 18th for the 68th annual Emmy Awards, with Jimmy Kimmel returning to the stage for his second stint as host for the live show.
Martin allowed that there might be a possibility for another series somewhere down the line, noting, “I do have thousands of pages of fake history of everything that led up to ‘Game of Thrones.’ There’s a lot of material there and I’m still writing more”. “If [Trump] gets elected and he builds that wall, the first person we’re throwing over it is Mark Burnett”.
She shared the stage with actor Tom Hiddleston to give away the Outstanding Directing for a Limited Series, Movie, or Dramatic Special award to “The Night Manager director” Susanne Bier.
Actress Courtney B Vance won the Best Actor in Limited Series or Movie while Sarah Paulson bagged won best actress. The unfortunate thing is I’m not sure how many of us would want to hang out with a guy like Elliot.
John Oliver captured the best variety talk series award for Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, ending Comedy Central’s 13-year run of wins in the category. It was her third win, and the third time she didn’t attend the ceremony.
But the host was saved by one of Khaleesie’s dragons from Thrones, who hilariously set Ryan Seacrest on fire on the E! red carpet (“dracyrus”) as he made his way to the auditorium.
Game of Thrones was the next big victor with three top honours, including outstanding drama series for a second year in a row, breaking the record for the highest number of Emmys won by any show, beating Frasier’s previous record of 37.
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”. (Her other was in 2006, for The New Adventures of Old Christine.) Comparing her caustic character Selina Meyer to Trump, Dreyfus ribbed that Veep “started as a political satire, but it now feels more like a sobering documentary”.
The bulk of the Primetime Emmy Awards were handed out the previous weekend at the Creative Arts Emmy ceremonies – where awards in technical categories and other less high profile awards are presented – which, for the first time, were spread out over two nights. But she knew whom to credit.
Bush asked Kimmel if he was a nominee, and when Kimmel said yes, Bush said, “Wow, what’s that like?”
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So well done to Jon Snow and co but there were plenty more winning and losing moments at this year’s event.
