Emmy Awards: ‘The Bear’ and ‘Succession’ Begin Likely Sweeps

The have finally arrived after months of delay, and TV’s biggest night will finally celebrate the seasons that aired from June 2022 to May 2023. Fresh off his recent wins at the Golden Globes and the Critics Choice , ‘s Jeremy Allen White won his first Emmy for best actor in a comedy series. “I’m so full of gratitude to be standing in front of you all,” said White.

“I love the show so much. It filled me up. It gave me a passion and set a fire in me to match the beautiful work done by [showrunners] Christopher Storer and Joanna Calo.” star (and best actress in a comedy series nominee) Christina Applegate received an early standing ovation when presenting the supporting actress in a comedy series category.

“Oh my God, you’re totally shaming me with disability by standing up,” she quipped, nodding to her multiple sclerosis, which she announced in August 2021. “Ayo, get your ass up here,” she added, naming ‘s Ayo Edebiri as the category’s winner. In her brief speech, Edebiri noted that the FX series is about family, also thanking her parents in the audience.

“Probably not like a dream to immigrate to this country and have your child be like, ‘I want to do improv,'” Edebiri said of her Barbadian mother and Nigerian father. “You’re real ones.” Edebiri’s costar Ebon Moss Bachrach, meanwhile, won best supporting actor in a comedy series star Matthew Macfadyen beat co stars Nicholas Braun, Alan Ruck and Alexander Skarsgard — and a slew of star — to win best supporting actor in a drama series.

In his speech, Macfadyen thanked both of his “onscreen wives,” Sarah Snook and Braun. “Acting with you is what’s been one of the most wonderful things in my career,” he said. stars Lorraine Bracco and Michael Imperioli reunited to celebrate the landmark HBO series’ 25th anniversary — and to present the Emmy for best supporting actress in a drama series to Imperioli’s co star Jennifer Coolidge.

An awards show favorite since the HBO show’s first season premiered in 2021, Coolidge promised to keep her remarks short (although she was told to wrap it up by host Anthony Anderson’s Mama Doris, who held up a cardboard sign with a clock). “I want to thank all the evil gays!” said Coolidge, who also said that creator Mike White “says I’m definitely dead,” alluding to her character Tanya dying after fearing the gay men she was traveling with were trying to kill her.

TV legend Carol Burnett, who won an Emmy at last weekend’s Creative Arts for her 90th birthday special, presented the best actress in a comedy Emmy to ‘s Quinta Brunson, her first win in the category but second Emmy following last year’s for writing for a comedy series. “I don’t know why I’m so emotional — probably the Carol Burnett of it all,” said Brunson through tears.

Host Anthony Anderson began the ceremony with a parody of , announcing that the landmark year of the gave him an opportunity to celebrate the shows of the past. Sitting at a piano and ushering in a local choir from Compton, Anderson launched into a brief medley of iconic TV theme songs, including those from , , plus a brief rendition of Phil Collins’ “In the Air Tonight” featuring Travis Barker on drums (a nod to ).

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