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    Jeremy Allen White, of ‘The Bear,’ Wins Emmy for Best Actor in a Comedy

    Another Emmy? Yes, Chef.Jeremy Allen White, who plays a chef always on the verge of a nervous breakdown in the FX series “The Bear,” won the Emmy for best actor in a comedy on Sunday.In the show, White plays Carmen Berzatto, known as Carmy, a high-profile chef in New York who comes home to Chicago to take over an Italian beef sandwich shop, after his brother dies by suicide. In Season 2, which was under consideration in Sunday’s ceremony, Carmy tries to transform the spot into a Michelin-worthy destination. This was his second nomination and win for the role.“My heart is just beating right out of its chest,” White said in his acceptance speech before professing his love for his castmates.“This show has changed my life,” White said. “It has instilled a faith that change is possible. If you are able to reach out, you are really truly never actually alone.”White beat Steve Martin and Martin Short of “Only Murders in the Building,” Matt Berry of “What We Do in the Shadows,” D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai of “Reservation Dogs” and Larry David of “Curb Your Enthusiasm.”“The Bear” was a heavy favorite heading into the 76th Emmy Awards, as the show made Emmy history in July when it notched 23 nominations for its second season, setting a record for most nominations for a comedy series in a single year. (The record belonged previously to “30 Rock.”) White was also widely favored.In an unusual quirk of timing, this is the second time this calendar year that White has won an Emmy for playing Carmy. For his work in Season 1, he accepted the best lead actor award in January, when the 75th Emmy Awards aired because of delays caused by the writer and actor strikes. More

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    Jean Smart Wins a Third Emmy for ‘Hacks’

    Jean Smart has just won a third Emmy for her starring turn in the Max series “Hacks,” the gleefully sardonic half-hour sitcom set in the rarefied, ruthless world of stand-up comedy.It is her sixth Emmy overall.“It’s very humbling. It really is. I appreciate this,” Smart said in a low voice, as she accepted the trophy. Then she went in for the punchline. “Because I don’t get enough attention. I’m serious.”Smart beat out a roster of actresses including Quinta Brunson, the creator and star of “Abbott Elementary,” who won the award in the previous Emmy ceremony, in January; and Ayo Edebiri of FX’s “The Bear,” who moved into the lead actress category after winning best supporting actress in January. Also nominated were Selena Gomez, for “Only Murders in the Building,” and the former “S.N.L.” co-stars Maya Rudolph, for “Loot,” and Kristen Wiig, for “Palm Royale.”As Deborah Vance, a celebrated comedian enjoying a late-career triumph, Smart, 72, is able to play smart, sexy, callous, vulnerable and very, very funny. In this latest season, she executes a mercenary plan to achieve something typically denied to women: a host gig on a major late-night show.In May, Smart told The New York Times, “I’ve always been part way to between leading lady and a character actress.” Who could doubt her leading-lady chops now? More

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    Emmy Awards Live Updates: Stars of ‘The Bear’ Win Best Acting Awards

    Jeanie Bacharach, speaking, and the team from “The Bear” accepting the Emmy for outstanding casting for a comedy series during Night 2 of the 76th Creative Arts Emmy Awards last Sunday. Phil McCarten/Invision, via Associated Press“Shogun” and “The Bear” were already the favorites going into the Emmys ceremony. And both have come blazing out of the gates.FX’s “Shogun” won 14 technical and acting awards at the Creative Arts Emmys last weekend, already setting a record for the most Emmy wins by a show in a single year. “The Bear” won seven Emmys last weekend, second most of any series this year thus far.Though the Creative Arts Emmys ceremony is not prime-time ready — the event includes awards for guest acting achievements and specialty areas like picture editing and stunts — the trophies count just the same in the Emmys record books, so the leaderboard is officially up and running.With wins in categories like production design, cinematography and visual effects, “Shogun” already beat a record set by HBO’s 2008 mini-series “John Adams,” which won 13 Emmys, and “Game of Thrones,” which won 12 Emmys three times.“Shogun” is eligible in Sunday’s ceremony in six categories, including best drama, best actor and best actress, and can widen its record-breaking total even more.The FX series also won last weekend for best casting in a drama series, an occasional bellwether for the best drama category. Likewise, “The Bear” won for best casting in a comedy series — the winner of which has gone on to win best comedy eight out of the last 10 times.Jamie Lee Curtis presents the Emmy for outstanding guest actor in a drama series during night two of the Television Academy’s 76th Creative Arts Emmy Awards at the Peacock Theater on Sunday, Sept. 8, 2024 in Los Angeles. Curtis won the Emmy for outstanding guest actress for her guest appearance on The Bear.Phil Mccarten/Invision, via Associated Press“The Bear” also won for best guest actress (Jamie Lee Curtis) and best guest actor (Jon Bernthal) for the same flashback, Christmas-themed episode, which is widely hailed as one of the series’s best.Netflix’s “Baby Reindeer” won a pair of Creative Arts Emmys, including for best cast in a limited series. Benj Pasek and Justin Paul took the best original music and lyrics category for Hulu’s “Only Murders in the Building,” earning them their first Emmy wins and enshrining them with EGOT status — performers who have won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and a Tony.In one of the more intriguing awards from last weekend, Alan Cumming won for best host in a reality series for the Peacock hit “The Traitors,” snapping RuPaul’s eight-year winning streak.“The Traitors” is up again for best reality series in Sunday’s ceremony, and is looking to upset “RuPaul’s Drag Race,” which has won the category five times in the past six years. More

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    Emmy Awards Winners: Updating List

    The list of winners for the 76th Emmy Awards.[Follow live updates of the Emmy Awards here.]The 76th Emmy Awards is now underway at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles and is being broadcast live on ABC. The father-son duo Eugene and Dan Levy, of “Schitt’s Creek” fame, are hosting.Because of the writers’ and actors’ strikes last year, this is actually the second Emmys ceremony of 2024: The first one took place in January after it was postponed from last September.“The Bear” is up for the most awards in the comedy category, with its 23 nominations alone breaking a record for a comedy (“30 Rock” previously held the record for 15 years). Because of the eligibility period, these nominations are for Season 2 of “The Bear,” not the third season, which came out this summer. For drama, “Shogun” has the most nods.New shows including “Palm Royale” and “Mr. & Mrs. Smith,” as well as the limited series “Baby Reindeer,” also have a chance to end the evening with multiple statuettes.At the Creative Arts Emmys, held last weekend, the songwriting duo Benj Pasek and Justin Paul reached EGOT status after winning in the outstanding original music and lyrics category for their song “Which of the Pickwick Triplets Did It?” from “Only Murders in the Building.”These are this year’s Emmy winners so far.Best Actor, ComedyJeremy Allen White in “The Bear.”FXWe are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and log into your Times account, or subscribe for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber? Log in.Want all of The Times? Subscribe. More

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    Emmy Hosts Eugene and Daniel Levy Open Ceremony With Playful Jokes

    Eugene and Dan Levy, the father-and-son acting duo best known for the sitcom “Schitt’s Creek,” opened the Emmy Awards on Sunday with playful digs at the changing television industry and its audience, calling the ceremony “broadcast TV’s biggest night for honoring movie stars on streaming services.”“The creators of ‘Shogun’ actually had their scripts translated into Japanese, rewritten and then translated back into English subtitles that you missed because you were also on your phone watching Sabrina Carpenter eat a hot wing,” joked Dan Levy, referring to one of one of the top contenders for best drama series.The Levys’ rapport is self-deprecating and inoffensive — a fitting mix for prime-time television.“I wouldn’t actually even call us hosts — we’re more like actors acting like hosts,” Dan Levy said.The actors drew their own accolades from the Television Academy as creators and stars of “Schitt’s Creek,” which earned them both acting Emmys. In 2020, Dan Levy became the first performer to collect four Emmys during a prime-time telecast — for writing, directing, best supporting actor and for best comedy.The hosts poked at one of the most nominated shows, “The Bear,” after some in the industry have questioned whether it qualifies a comedy.“In the true spirit of ‘The Bear,’ we will not make any jokes,” Eugene Levy said. More

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    Liza Colón-Zayas Wins Her First Emmy for ‘The Bear’

    Liza Colón-Zayas, a celebrated Off Broadway actress who found a breakout television role as Tina in FX’s “The Bear,” has won her first Emmy.Accepting the award, a shocked Colón-Zayas said that her husband, the actor David Zayas, had told her to write a speech. “I didn’t,” she said, overawed. Tina, the sous chef of restaurant at the center of the show, is a maternal figure in the kitchen and a woman coming to know her own worth. While the show’s most recent season included an episode entirely focused on Tina (and co-starring her husband, David Zayas), this win is for her work in Season 2, in which Tina refines her culinary skills and discovers that what she has thought of as a job may actually be a calling.Colón-Zayas was a surprise winner as Hannah Einbinder of “Hacks” and Meryl Streep of “Only Murders in the Building” were favored. The other nominees were Sheryl Lee Ralph of “Abbott Elementary,” a past winner; Ralph’s “Abbott” co-star Janelle James; and the legendary comedian Carol Burnett, nominated for her turn in “Palm Royale.” Colón-Zayas celebrated these other nominees and ended in an emotional speech exhorting the audience to vote. More

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    Mia Farrow Bows Out of ‘The Roommate’ With Covid; Marsha Mason Steps In

    Mason, an associate director of the comedy, which opened on Broadway last week, will step in as Patti LuPone’s counterpart.On Thursday, Mia Farrow celebrated opening night of “The Roommate,” the new Broadway play in which she is starring opposite Patti LuPone. On Saturday, Farrow was homebound after testing positive for Covid.The production canceled both of its scheduled Saturday performances, and on Sunday planned to go forward with Marsha Mason in Farrow’s stead. Mason, best known as an actor, is one of the play’s associate directors and had been working with Farrow on her performance.The play’s producers asked Mason to fill in for Farrow, according to the show’s spokesman, Rick Miramontez. Mason will be performing with the show’s script in hand, Miramontez said.Farrow, 79, posted on X Saturday about her “first Covid bout,” but then deleted the post.The show has an understudy, Carol Halstead, but apparently opted to go with Mason, who is far better known, and whose own name recognition might help stanch cancellations by ticketholders hoping to see Farrow. In the years since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, there have been several previous instances in which directors have stepped in for absent performers on Broadway.Farrow, LuPone, Mason, and the show’s director, Jack O’Brien, all have homes in Western Connecticut and are friendly with one another.“The Roommate” is a comedic two-character play, written by Jen Silverman, about what happens when an Iowa City woman takes on a boarder from the Bronx who turns out to have a fondness for fraud.The play, capitalized for $5.5 million, is among the first in a string of shows this season that are hoping the combination of big name stars and short runs will lead to high ticket demand. More

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    ‘Does This Taste Funny?’: How Stephen Colbert’s Family Cookbook Came to Be

    Comedy defangs the taboo, so Stephen Colbert and Evie McGee Colbert have decided, at last, to tell the dreaded spoon story. The two have celebrated milestone anniversaries, welcomed three children and one dog, and now released the cookbook “Does This Taste Funny? Recipes Our Family Loves.” Secure in that solid foundation, Mr. Colbert and Ms. McGee Colbert conceded the time had come to revisit what has come to be one of the defining moments of their union.It goes like this: The Colberts were just married and living in Chicago, where Mr. Colbert launched his career performing with Second City, when Ms. McGee Colbert took a metal spoon out a drawer and scraped it across the surface of their pristine set of Calphalon nonstick pans.Off in the distance, but almost visible from the porch of their home on Sullivan’s Island in South Carolina where this interview took place, Fort Sumter marks the ground where the Civil War broke out in 1861. The stakes of this inciting incident were only somewhat less consequential.“We move into this apartment,” Ms. McGee Colbert recalled, “and I think we’re going to be chopping basil and cooking together and drinking wine and listening to Chet Baker.” Her new husband wasted no time disabusing her of those notions. “He’s like, ‘You shouldn’t do that,’” she said.“I believe I said, ‘How about a wooden spoon?’” Mr. Colbert countered, head in hands.Ms. McGee Colbert dropped her weapon and withdrew. She took one look at the man to whom she had pledged her troth and declared that there would be no more “having a fabulous time” in the kitchen. Mr. Colbert could have his mise en place and sparkling cookware. In the parlance of “Top Chef,” she packed her knives and went.“I was like, ‘I’m out,’” Ms. McGee Colbert said. Next to her on a rattan couch in the humid Charelstonian summer, Mr. Colbert wiped his brow and groaned.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and log into your Times account, or subscribe for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber? Log in.Want all of The Times? Subscribe. More