75th Primetime Emmy Awards 2024

Monologue [Music] uh you missed the first one the second one all right but let's get into it everybody tonight is a celebration that we're all honoring the best of the actors the best of the writers and the best of directors and the shows that kept us glued to the tube tonight we're giving out 27 awards that means 27 acceptance speeches so I'd like to ask you all to keep those speeches tight now normally on award shows we do what's called playoff music which everyone tends to ignore M this year I've got something that nobody can ignore my mama now tonight my mama tonight my mama she is going to be the Emy playoff Mama now when you see my mama coming just thank Jesus and your family and wrap it up and I don't want nobody to get disrespectful with my mama because my mama is from the west side of Chicago and she can throw them hands shut up that's enough mama I want to go to the after party hurry up okay M Mama all right you're supposed to be yelling at the other people not at me not in the middle of the mon the time's up baby cut to the Chas all right see what I mean see what I mean my mama don't play well you've all been warned now our first presenter made her television debut at the age of one now think about it while I grew up watching TV she grew up on TV she's an Emy winner and a nominee again tonight it is my honor to introduce Christina Applegate [Music] Love and Marriage Love and Marriage go together like a horse and carage this I tell you brother you can't have one without the other love and marri love and thank you so much oh my God you're totally shaming me with disability by standing up it's fine okay um body not by OIC okay let's go uh some of you may know me as Kelly Bundy from Married with Children um thank you we don't we don't have to applaud every time I do something um or Samantha from Samantha Who or probably maybe my last job from Jen Harding from dead to me thank you but very few of you probably know me from that debut I'm going to cry more than I've been crying baby Bert Grizzle on Days of Our Lives it was really a breakout rule is there a picture oh look at that look at that I I I think I've been cancelled um anyway it's been an honor to play funny flawed complex characters like the women nominated for supporting actress in a comedy series Alex Borstein The Marvelous Mrs nasel I ad the bear Janelle James AB Elementary chery Lee Ralph AB Elementary Juno Temple Ted lasso Hannah Wingham Ted lasso Jessica Williams shrinking and the Emmy goes to IO get your ass up here [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] congratulations thank you so much my goodness um hi I have 43 seconds okay um I'm so incredibly grateful for this for so many reasons um but uh the main one uh this is a show about family and and found family and and real family and my parents are here tonight um I making them sit kind of far away from me cuz I'm a bad kid but um I love you guys so much thank you so much for uh loving me and uh letting me feel beautiful and black and proud of all of that um I just love you so much um probably not like a dream to immigrate to this country and have your child be like I want to do improv but um your real ones uh thank you so much for this it means the world thank [Applause] [Music] you I actually don't need him here he's just really cute this is a big one for me I have only had one picture framed in my home and it's of this person and myself I mean all of you are very famous but she's more important to me than any of you I'm so sorry you're really cool anyway Carol Bernett forever changed variety television before Carol variety was a male Dominion the Jack Benny's and red SK and Andy Williams on television were great but it was Carol who broke new ground for all the shows that followed with sketches that have withstood the test of time and now oh come on please welcome The Legend who not only blaze a trail for me but for all of us for so many other women on television a seven time Emmy winner who brought home her latest Emmy a week ago for outstanding variety special here is the legendary Carol Bernett [Applause] Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] I uh I was lucky enough to be the first female host of a comedy variety show from 1967 to in 1978 11 years and that was a long time ago and I I just want to say that a lot has changed in the last 46 years for the better progress has been made and it oh it truly warms my heart to see how well men are doing in comedy Now good and now here are the nominees for a lead actress in a comedy series Christina Applegate dead J me Rachel brahan The Marvelous Mrs NASA Quinta Brunson Avid Elementary Natasha Leo Poker Face Jenna Ortega Wednesday okay and the Emy goes to Quinta brunon a Elementary take down down car we'll go this way oh man oh um wow um thank you so much just I don't even know I'm so emotional think like the Carol Bernett of it all um thank you so much um I love making Abid Elementary so much and I am so happy to be able to live my dream and act out comedy and um I say it every time but I just love comedy so much that I I I am so happy to be able to get this I don't I didn't prepare anything because I just didn't think um oh God I love my mom my dad my sisters my brothers my entire family so much I love my husband I'm so happy I love my cast um I love abot Elementary thank you so much coming up on the 's some of your favorite stars from Martin cheers gra Anatomy Ali mcfield The Sopranos and more here on [Applause] [Music] Fox got got why here why I pay tribute to The Sopranos in this therapist office because the moment Tony Soprano walked into the setting doing the unthinkable sharing his feelings with Dr Meli television history was about to be made now by the end of its six seasons this Seri was acclaimed time and time again as one of the greatest dramas of all time nominated for over 100 emys winning 21 Emy Awards oh here our four time Emy nominee Lorraine brocco and Emy award winning himself Michael [Applause] Imperioli 2024 marks the 25th anniversary of this series that Lorraine and I were so fortunate to be a part of and speaking for for Michael and myself and the entire cast and crew it was an honor working with Soprano's Creator David Chase and of course the great James [Applause] Lead Actress in a Comedy Series gandalin and now here are the nominees for supporting actress in a drama series Jennifer kage the White Lotus Elizabeth theii the crown Megan fahe the White Lotus Sabrina impor the White Lotus Aubrey Plaza the White Lotus Ray seahorn better call SA J Smith Cameron succession Simona Tabasco the White [Applause] Lotus oh and the Emmy goes to Jennifer coolage the right m [Music] wow thank you you know I I just want to say um yeah I have to put this down I haven't I still don't have the strength I this before but I just um I got the hook last year I talked too long you know they that this giant hook comes out and takes you away so I I'm going to be so fast I just uh Mike White thank you for this mik white you know making you part of giving me this opportunity to play this incredible character and um he says I'm definitely dead so I'm I'm going along with it and um he's a no um and I I just uh Dave bernad amazing producer Mark K mine you know um there's some you see see them it's running out okay so I just want to say um I want to thank all the evil gays you know I just really really I just especially you know yes Paulo Franchesco and Bruno thank you I know I'm getting wrap it up okay yes okay um yes and um I I just I love you baby but time okay guess what guess what one more thing I love you too I just want to say one thing okay one last thing um I Had a Little Dream in my little town and it did everyone said it was Impractical and it was farfetched but it did happen after all so don't give up on your dream thank you I it was are good thank he's nominated for three Emmys this year please welcome Pedro [Applause] Pascal before we get into the nominees for best supporting actor in a drama series I'd like to take just a second and make this about me a lot of people have been asking about my arm it's actually my shoulder and I think tonight is a perfect time to tell everyone that Karen Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series [Applause] Co here are the nominees for supporting actor in a drama series [Applause] F moo James the White Lotus Matthew mcfan succession Alan Rock succession will sharp the White Lotus Alexander Skarsgard succession and the Emmy goes to Matthew mcfan for [Applause] [Music] succession thank you very much oh thank you um thank you so much to the television Academy and to the entire succession family um directors writers Producers cast and crew our Peerless crew uh every Department often unsung always brilliant um I must Stella cast I must make special mention to um my onscreen wife Sarah snook uh and my other onscreen wife Nicholas Brawn um uh acting with you has one been one of the most wonderful things in my career thank you Nick thank you Sarah it's been a joy thank you to my actual wife key my love and my best friend for being here Maggie miles and Ralph I love you I'll see you soon thank you very much it's a great honor thank [Music] you outstanding supporting and lead actor in a comedy series are next plus the cast of cheers and Martin reunite keep watching the Emmys on [Music] Fox please welcome Emmy winners John CER and Holland [Music] Taylor like a good bra a supporting actor makes things look effortless while secretly holding up the whole show uh you know Mom I uh I actually won this award uh so you could say you know I'm a I'm a good bra well Alan darling I don't think I would ever say that and I certainly hope none of our nominees for a supporting actor in a comedy series would either Anthony carigan Barry Phil dumpster Ted lasso Brett Goldstein Ted lasso James Marson jury duty eban Moss backrack the bear Tyler James Williams abot Elementary Henry Winkler Barry and the Emy goes to Ean Moss backer [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] wow okay uh Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series thank you very much uh me Academy television Academy um I don't know this is this this job is such a gift it's such a privilege to work with these wonderful actors um we have the best crew we have this incredible Chicago crew led by our amazing first ad Duo fabri uh um thank you Chris store for trusting me with this part thank you jeie backrack for making this beautiful group that I get to play with all the time um thank you suul liman Khloe Walsh Stephanie Ritz thank you Brian naskov I probably would have forgotten to read this if it wasn't for you um Jody POF Michael Mahan thank you Elena I love you so much thank you Sasha Miri all right see you guys [Applause] thanks from the hit TV series Martin here are AR Tia Campbell Carl Anthony Payne II tashaa Arnold and Martin Lawrence wow this is a real moment special moment you better believe it baby we finally about to get it in what yeah we getting our Emy tonight yeah as a matter of fact I got got my speech on Deck too yeah all ready to go and no no no no all right and they better not send Mama D out here to play me on for wish here no no no Carl Carl Carl we're not winning an Emy tonight please sit your butt down please s what you mean Carl we're presenting an award not being presented with one knucklehead I'm leaving here with something okay no wait wait wait Carlin all the way wrong you guys I mean we should have won an Emy during our run true true that would be right that would be right but we were never even nominated despite our 132 episodes what wow um um just our huge ratings and being in syndicated so much that it's a little hard for me to see the '90s spankers version of myself every night you know what I'm saying right Thea no I still look good wow that's what we still good hey hey hey hold on you know I I want to thank you guys for your contribution to television um but uh unlike me or like me uh for the last 11 times you're not going to get an Emy what you mean you're not why that kind of sucks no he tricking us he tricking us he tricking us go ahead keep keep going keep going well you know what it's all good it's all good you Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series know I'm just excited to be here on the me stage with this tremendous cast of The Martin Show that's right yeah yeah to present the next next award are the nominees for lead actor in a comedy series here we go Bill ha Barry Jason seagull shrinking Martin Short only murderers in the building Jason cinas Ted Lasser Jeremy Allen White the bear hey yo Martin I'm saying they forgot to say our names man shut and the Emy goes to Jeremy Allan White there [Applause] gosh uh thank you thank you uh I am I'm so uh proud um I I am so full of gratitude to be standing in front of you all um I love the show so much um it filled me up it gave me a passionate set a fire in me to match the beautiful work done by Christopher store and Joanna cowo um I love you guys thank you thank you thank you um the Beautiful cast and beautiful crew I get to share uh space and and stage with um my parents I love you thank you for your support dad you're right there I love you so much thank you so much um um thank you uh thank you to all those who have stayed close to me uh especially in this past year you know who you are I love you I love you thank you uh uh for believing in me when I had trouble uh believing in myself I love you and ezer and doares I love you so much this is for you thank you thank you thank you thank you guys when we return Mara Gibbs and Quinta Brunson and an Emmy edition of SNL's Weekend Update with Tina Fay and Amy Poler here at the Emy on Fox [Applause] welcome back to the 75th Emmy Awards please welcome Taylor Tomlinson and 10 time Emmy winner Steven Lead Actor in a Comedy Series coar so uh Taylor your your show after midnight premiere is tomorrow night right after my show and this is your first this is your first Emy how I got to ask how are you feeling oh amazing I love knowing that jenzie is absolutely destroying me online right now no they're not come on you're young and you're cool no I'm 30 Stephen in Jen's eyes I'm basically mummy dust seriously someone said that wait if you're mummy dust then what am I a pyramid because a lot of people died to build you I told you not to read the comments you're not my dad Taylor Al leise we'll talk about this later and here are the nominees for outstanding scripted variety series a black lady sketch show Last Week Tonight with John Oliver Saturday Night Live and the Emmy goes to Last Week Tonight with John [Applause] [Music] Oliver Last Week Tonight with John Oliver has received four nominations this year and a total overall of 61 this year's nominations are in production design writing directing and scripted variety series except the Amy is John Oliver thank you thank you so much thanks so much to my staff uh many of them are here tonight uh list Danton and Tim carille who's not here he's back in New York with some of our other staff who are burning down a bar there somewhere uh thank you they all work so hard um uh thank you to HBO Casey Nina and our lawy Boyers who are angry with us all the time thank you to my wife Kate who is here tonight I love you very much our our kids Hudson amazi are not here and they are so mad that I left this morning I promised them Pokémon cards and I don't know where to get Pokémon cards in La so if anyone knows where to get Pokémon cards between it here and LAX it's a significant problem that I've worked myself into I I am not leaving without getting played off by Anthony Anderson's mom so I'm going to start reading off the names of the Liverpool football team in goal Allison Becka then you got Trent Alexander Arnold then you got Virgil Van djk obviously oh she's not here I can get through the whole team then baby I I'd like to thank Jesus and my family thank you okay [Music] okay and now please welcome Emy winner tonight Quinta Brunson join by a television Legend herself five time Emy nominee Mara Gibs [Applause] I am so honored to be presenting this award with the incomparable Mara Gibs your career has literally spanned decades you got your first job in 1973 and you are still working what's the secret to working in Hollywood for so long oh that's easy baby the wage [Music] Gap I got to work 20 more years before I can retire but if you great writers right something for me I'll just keep on working and cut into that weight yet like don't crack baby and it's never too late facts okay let's look at the nominees for supporting actress in a limited or Anthology series or a movie analie Ashford welcome to Chien Dan Maria Bellow be Claire D FL is in trouble Juliet Lewis welcome to chiil Camila morone Daisy Jones and the six mey Nash bets dmer monster to Jeffrey dmer story Meritt Weaver tiny Outstanding Scripted Variety Series beautiful things and the Emy goes to ni Nash bets dmer moner the Jeffrey dmer stor w I'm a winner baby thank you to the most high for this Divine moment thank you Ryan Murphy for sing me Evan Peters I love you Netflix every single person who voted for me thank you my better have who picked me up when I was gutted from this work thank you and you know who I want to thank I want to thank me for believing in me and doing what they said I could not do and I want to say to myself in front of all You Beautiful People Go On Girl with your bad self you did that finally I accept this award on behalf of every black and brown woman who has gone unheard yet overed like Glenda Cleveland like Sandra Bland like Briana Taylor as an artist my job is to speak truth to power and baby I'mma do it to the day I die mama I won coming up later the awards for outstanding lead actor and actress in the drama series and up next the cast of Cheers reunit it's the emys on Fox there have been a lot of brilliant sitcoms in the 75 years of the Emmys some set in the workplace and others in the home some in restaurants but one of the greatest sitcoms of all time winner of 28 EMS was set here in the most iconic bar in television history cheers to other Anthony thank you for getting us all here ah this feels nice to be here Supporting Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie in front of all of you thank you look Chad don't you just think of it as a long overdue class reunion and being together brings back some great memories of a show we're all very proud of yeah and if somebody has the envelope we can present the award uh yeah that one right Georgie Porgy we are honored to present the Emmy for Outstanding directing in a comedy series here are the nominees Bill hater Barry Christopher store the bear Amy Sherman Paladino The Marvelous Mrs masel Mary Lou belly the Miss Pacho Dean lowney Ted lasso Tim Burton Wednesday and the Emmy goes to Christopher ster the bear Christopher is unable to be here tonight so we accept this award on his behalf come on re and now here are the nominated teams for writing for a comedy series an award won by two of cheer's creators Les and Glenn Charles Bill hater Barry Christopher store the bear mecky leaper jury duty John Hoffman Mato Bazi Bob turbowski only murders in the building Chris Kelly Sarah Schneider the other two Brendan hunt Joe Kelly Jason sedus Ted lasso and the Emmy goes to Christopher stoer the bear so well Christopher is unable to be here tonight we accept this award on his behalf thank you coming up Joel Mel and Ken Jong an Emmy edition of SNL's Weekend Update with Tina Fay and Amy polar Ario Hall and the cast of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia plus a Grace Anatomy [Music] reunion our next presenters are two of the most Overexposed people in television and movies give it up for Joel male and Ken Jong [Applause] [Music] [Applause] wow you're you're uh you're one to talk Anthony Anderson why you call us on your T-Mobile phone while going to your smear not Vice party okay Zing man oh sorry about that sorry okay uh we are here to honor the outstanding reality competition programs um we know a thing or two about reality competition shows because Ken is finally over the height requirement to participate in the profit sharing so Roo way to go stop stop seriously Li TV reality competition programs are better than they've ever been in fact reality is the most noble of callings even more than medicine I should know here we go you were thrown out of medicine okay he killed the guy killed guy of him he he's being sued by Kaiser for the last say that the instruments that almost killed that dude were the ones the nurses left in okay the ones that saved his life I left in and besides I only had the gig for 10 days at that point give me a okay okay and that is the end of our comedy bit it never started it never did here are the nominees for outstanding reality competition program not involving Ken Outstanding Direction in a Comedy Series Jong it's a career rout The Amazing Race blue balls drag race Survivor Top Chef The Voice and the Emmy goes to RuPaul's Drag Race RuPaul's Drag Race has earned a total of 63 Emmy nominations this is the show's fifth win in this category accepting the Emmy on behalf of the team is rup Paul this year marks to eighth consecutive win for RuPaul as host of the show RuPaul continues to reign as the most awarded host in emy's history and holds the record for most wins by a person of col thank you so much thank you thank you so much you lovely lovely people we are so honored to have this award listen you guys are just pure lovely for honoring our show and recognizing all these Queens we have we have released into the wild hundreds of drag queens and they're beautiful and they're beautiful on behalf of all of them we thank you and listen if a drag queen wants to read you a story at a library listen to her because knowledge is power and if someone tries to restrict your access to power they are trying to scare you so listen to a drag queen we love you thank you thank you thank Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series you from the peacock theater in the heart of downtown Los Angeles it's aridia [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] thank you thank you hey oh my thank you thank you um as a kid I idolized Johnny Carson when most kids in Cleveland wanted to be football stars like Brown I wanted to be a old white man with a talk show I was a very weird 10 yearold I even was a magician like Johnny here check this out yes yes there I am in in a black suit and tie doing magic in the ghetto of Cleveland yes I'm still alive but I got my ass beat a lot boy U Outstanding Reality Competition Program I love so much I used to do The Tonight Show in my basement with my friends as guest eventually I became a standup comic I got my big break on Late Night with David Letterman and then on January 3rd 1989 I debuted the Arenal Hall Show I was host yes I I was host now of that show that I used to do in my basement and I got to go head-to-head with the King Johnny Carson and his heirs to the throne Dave and Jay it was an honor to face off against The Talented Trio but to be honest with you I wish they had a sucked but they didn't and now here's some other folks who absolutely do not suck the nominated teams for outstanding writer in a variety series Last Week Tonight with John Oliver Late Night with Seth Meyers Saturday Night Live The Daily Show with Trevor Noah The Late Show with Steven Co and the Emy goes too I'm as nervous as John Oliver will be the team from Last Week Tonight with John oliv [Music] this is the eighth consecutive Emmy win in this category for Last Week Tonight with John Oliver which has a total overall of 61 nominations the Emmy Award for outstanding writing for a variety series debuted in 1966 [Music] [Applause] hi thank you uh thank you to our executive producers Tim Carell and Liz Stanton thank you to our shy but hardworking intern John Oliver thank you um to cat Owens who is a constant lifesaver thank you to every department at Last Week Tonight they're all incredible at what they do they make the whole thing happen um I especially want to thank everyone at the show and John Tim and Liz for just how much they backed us up during the writer strike um they they wholeheartedly supported all of us even though a third of us are annoying and they just it was wonderful we also want to thank our Union the wga and all the other unions that backed with so much solidarity um the strike felt long it did not feel lonely so thank you so much thank [Music] you from It's Always Sunny and Philadelphia the longest running TV sitcom of all time here are Caitlyn Olen Rob meleny Glenn Howton Charlie Day and Danny [Applause] Outstanding Writing in a Variety Series deito okay all right thank you what an honor it is to be here at the 75th Emmy Awards yes it truly wait what what 75 years yeah the show's been on for 75 we've been on the air since 2005 I've never even been here yeah hang on have you guys been doing this every single year without us yeah they do they get dressed up they give each other Awards yeah and 16 Seasons we've never even been we've never presented before no I feel like we're getting the full Martin treatment over here sort of except they built them a set where's P yeah we should have a sad and they they gave us the same bit well