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WINNER: Christopher Storer (The Bear) — directing for a comedy series

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“THE BEAR” — “Beef” — Season 2, Episode 1 (Airs Thursday, June 22nd) Pictured: Ebon Moss-Bachrach as Ricard “Richie” Jerimovich. CR: Chuck Hodes/FX.
Ebon Moss-Bachrach in The Bear Photograph: Chuck Hodes/Copyright 2023, FX Networks. All rights reserved.

It’s really shaping up to The Bear’s night – a fourth award for the series, this time to director and creator The Bear, who is not in attendance (the cast of Cheers accepted on his behalf).

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I agree with this take from Variety’s TV critic Alison Herman – the vintage sets constructed for some of these presenting bits (The Sopranos, Martin, Cheers) are giving much more than just cast reunions.

production note: it’s so much more fun and evocative to resurrect the *sets* of vintage shows than just reunite the cast and call it a day. and pays homage to more kinds of craft than acting alone

— Alison Herman (@aherman2006) January 16, 2024

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WINNER: Niecy Nash-Betts (Dahmer) — supporting actress in a limited series or TV movie

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75th Primetime Emmy Awards - ShowLOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - JANUARY 15: Niecy Nash-Betts accepts the Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie award for “Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story” onstage during the 75th Primetime Emmy Awards at Peacock Theater on January 15, 2024 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images)
Niecy Nash-Betts Photograph: Kevin Winter/Getty Images

This is a bit of a surprise! Niecy Nash-Betts takes home the first limited series award for her role as a grieving, relentless mother on Netflix’s serial killer series I can’t watch. “I’m a winner, baby!” she exclaims in tears.

It’s an emotional, defiant speech: “I wanna thank me, for believing in me, and doing what they said I could not do,” she adds, accepting the award on behalf of “every Black and brown woman who has gone unheard and over-policed.”

WINNER: Last Week Tonight With John Oliver — variety scripted series

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US-ENTERTAINMENT-TV-AWARDS-EMMY-ARRIVALS-RED CARPETBritish television host John Oliver arrives for the 75th Emmy Awards at the Peacock Theatre at L.A. Live in Los Angeles on January 15, 2024. (Photo by Robyn BECK / AFP) (Photo by ROBYN BECK/AFP via Getty Images)
John Oliver. Photograph: Robyn Beck/AFP/Getty Images

No surprise again, John Oliver’s weekly show wins its eighth consecutive Emmy in the new variety scripted series category – sorry, Saturday Night Live!

Oliver thanked his staff and, importantly, “our lawyers, who are angry with us all the time”, as well as his children before successfully listing Liverpool players until he got shooed off by Anderson’s mom, who’s making a full bit out of her attendance here.

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WINNER: Jeremy Allen White (The Bear) — actor in a comedy series

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75th Primetime Emmy Awards - ArrivalsJeremy Allen White at the 75th Primetime Emmy Awards held at the Peacock Theater on January 15, 2024 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Gilbert Flores/Variety via Getty Images)
Jeremy Allen White. Photograph: Gilbert Flores/Variety/Getty Images

Continuing this year’s theme of reuniting beloved casts, the stars of Martin, a long-syndicated yet under-appreciated (by the Emmys) 90s sitcom, riffed for a few minutes before presenting best actor in a comedy series to The Bear’s Jeremy Allen White. That’s three already tonight – all of the comedy acting awards except best actress – for the breakout FX on Hulu show which, again, feels spiritually more drama than comedy (and, regardless, is fantastic).

White keeps it short and sweet: “I love this show so much. It filled me up. It set a passion and a fire in me,” he says, as well as thanking “all those who stayed close to me, especially in this past year” and his two young daughters.

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WINNER: Ebon Moss-Bachrach (The Bear) — supporting actor in a comedy series

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75th Primetime Emmy Awards - ShowLOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - JANUARY 15: Ebon Moss-Bachrach accepts the Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series award for “The Bear,” onstage during the 75th Primetime Emmy Awards at Peacock Theater on January 15, 2024 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images)
Ebon Moss-Bachrach. Photograph: Kevin Winter/Getty Images

The second win of the night already for The Bear, and the energy is high – Ebon Moss-Bachrach (my beloved Cousin Richie) hugs star Jeremy Allen White on the way to the stage. “This job is such a gift,” he says, looking genuinely surprised and openly appreciative of the show’s Chicago-based crew.

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The full speech from the always delightful Jennifer Coolidge, which really must be watched and not summarized:

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An Emmys reunion for The Sopranos! It’s been a funny old week for that show …

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WINNER: Matthew Macfadyen (Succession) — supporting actor in a drama series

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75th Primetime Emmy Awards in Los AngelesMatthew Macfadyen and Keeley Hawes attend the 75th Primetime Emmy Awards in Los Angeles, California, U.S. January 15, 2024. REUTERS/Aude Guerrucci
Matthew Macfadyen Photograph: Aude Guerrucci/Reuters

No surprise here, Golden Globe winner Matthew Macfadyen aka Tom Wambsgans takes home the first of surely many awards tonight for Succession, thanking his two onscreen wives – Sarah Snook (Shiv) and Nicholas Braun (Cousin Greg) in the process.

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WINNER: Jennifer Coolidge (The White Lotus) — supporting actress in a drama series

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Jennifer Coolidge arrives at the 75th Primetime Emmy Awards on Monday, Jan. 15, 2024, at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis)
Jennifer Coolidge Photograph: Ashley Landis/AP

In the first of what is surely to be more to come for The White Lotus, Jennifer Coolidge once again wins an Emmy for her absurd creation of Tanya McQuoid.

“I still don’t have the strength,” she says, putting down the statue for one of her standard freewheeling bits. “He says I’m definitely dead, so I’m going along with it,” she adds of creator and friend Mike White.

“I want to thank all the evil gays,” she says, knowing her audience, before getting playfully shooed off by Anderson’s mom, mic’ed up in the audience with a clock sign.

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WINNER: Quinta Brunson (Abbott Elementary) — actress in a comedy

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75th Primetime Emmy Awards - ShowLOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - JANUARY 15: Quinta Brunson accepts the Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series award for “Abbott Elementary” onstage during the 75th Primetime Emmy Awards at Peacock Theater on January 15, 2024 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images)
Quinta Brunson. Photograph: Kevin Winter/Getty Images

What an honor to be presented by the still funny legend Carol Burnett – Quinta Brunson, star and creator of Abbott Elementary, is emotional accepting the award for best comedy actress and also “the Carol Burnett of it all”.

“I’m so happy to be able to live my dream and act out comedy,” she said through tears. “I didn’t prepare anything because I just didn’t think … ” before thanking her family, husband and cast, voice breaking.

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WINNER: – Ayo Edebiri (The Bear) — supporting actress in a comedy series

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75th Primetime Emmy Awards - ArrivalsAyo Edebiri at the 75th Primetime Emmy Awards held at the Peacock Theater on January 15, 2024 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Gilbert Flores/Variety via Getty Images)
Ayo Edebiri Photograph: Gilbert Flores/Variety/Getty Images

The first award of the night goes to the ever-charming Ayo Edebiri from breakout “comedy” The Bear. Breathless, she shouted our her parents – “I’m making them sit kinda far away from me because I’m a bad kid” for their support. “Probably not a dream to immigrate to this country and have your child be like ‘I wanna do improv’ – you’re real ones,” she said.

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Here we go

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Arrivals - 75th Primetime Emmy Awardsepa11080531 US actor Anthony Anderson arrives for the 75th annual Primetime Emmy Awards ceremony held at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles, California, USA, 15 January 2024. The Primetime Emmys celebrate excellence in national primetime television programming. EPA/DAVID SWANSON
Anthony Anderson. Photograph: David Swanson/EPA

The lights are up, the stars are seated and we are underway at the 75th annual Primetime Emmy awards. Host Anthony Anderson, an 11-time Emmy nominee himself for Black-ish, kicks things off with a jovial spoof of Mister Rodgers’ Neighborhood, the first sign that his Emmys would celebrate not just the Successions of the world, but the foundational series of TV.

Anderson’s musical introduction – he brought out a church choir – definitely seems to be going down better than Jo Koy’s limp, defensive monologue at last weekend’s Golden Globes. Aided by a piano, Anderson shouted out the series that shaped the world and, more important, himself – Good Times, The Facts of Life and Miami Vice (with drum assistance on Phil Collins’s In The Air Tonight by Travis Barker).

His jokes, however, were dismissed, quite endearingly, by Anderson’s mother, who stood up in the audience and told him to “cut to the chase”. So off to the first award we go!

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