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  • Dave Chappelle wins Guest Comedy Actor Emmy for ‘SNL’

    By ANI

    WASHINGTON: American comic Dave Chappelle has gained the Best Comedy Guest Actor Emmy for internet hosting a post-election episode of ‘Saturday Night Live’ (SNL).

    As per Variety, this was one in every of 4 Emmys for which he was nominated this yr. The different three have been all for his Netflix stand-up comedy particular ‘8:46’. While he misplaced the range particular directing and selection particular writing awards to Bo Burnham for ‘Bo Burnham: Inside’, the outcomes of the range particular (pre-recorded) race are nonetheless to be introduced, in the course of the September 19 ceremony.

    This is Chappelle’s second win within the visitor comedy actor class, however his fifth Emmy win total.

    He beforehand took the trophy on this class in 2017 for his first time internet hosting the late-night NBC sketch comedy present. He additionally has a number of selection particular (pre-recorded) statues for stand-up specials ‘Equanimity’ in 2018 and ‘Stick & Stones’ in 2020, the latter for which he additionally earned a spread particular writing Emmy.

    Chappelle’s win additionally marks the second yr in a row an ‘SNL’ host has gained this class. Last yr Eddie Murphy was the victor.

    To bag this trophy, Chappelle topped different ‘SNL’ hosts Daniel Kaluuya and Dan Levy, in addition to Alec Baldwin, who was nominated for enjoying former US President Donald Trump in the identical ‘SNL’ episode Chappelle hosted, and Morgan Freeman, who was nominated for showing as himself on ‘The Kominsky Method’.

    ‘Saturday Night Live’ is proving to nonetheless be a Television Academy darling. It picked up 21 nominations total this yr, and to this point has seven wins. Many of the nominations got here in the identical class, so its wins whole was inevitably going to be considerably decrease than its nominations tally.

    In addition to Chappelle’s win; selection collection directing (for the Chappelle-hosted episode); modern (non-prosthetic) selection, nonfiction, actuality make-up; modern selection, nonfiction, actuality hairstyling; selection collection lighting design/path; and selection/actuality manufacturing design.

  • The Crown and The Mandalorian lead 73rd Emmy Awards nominations

    The Crown and The Mandalorian led nominations on Tuesday for the Emmy Awards, the best honors in tv in a discipline filled with newcomers.
    HBO and HBO Max led all networks with 130 nominations, adopted by Netflix Inc with 129.
    Best drama collection contenders embody Netflix’s British royal collection The Crown for a season that centered on the early years of the disastrous marriage of Prince Charles and Princess Diana.
    The Crown nabbed a number one 24 nods, together with 9 for actors corresponding to Josh O’Connor and newcomer Emma Corrin because the royal newlyweds and Olivia Colman as a middle-aged Queen Elizabeth.
    British Nineteenth-century romance Bridgerton received a greatest drama collection nod in addition to an appearing nomination for breakout star Regé-Jean Page. Pose star Mj Rodriguez turned the primary transgender performer to choose up a significant Emmy appearing nomination within the drama collection in regards to the LGBTQ underground ballroom scene.
    Star Wars spinoff drama The Mandalorian tied with 24 nominations, principally for writing and particular results.
    In the comedy discipline, 75% of the nominees have been new to discipline, led by the Apple TV+ comedy Ted Lasso, about an underdog English soccer crew coached by an American, which scored 20 nods, together with for its star and co-writer Jason Sudeikis.
    Its opponents for greatest comedy collection embody the HBO Max streaming reveals The Flight Attendant, with Kaley Cuoco, and Hacks, a couple of veteran feminine comedian performed by Jean Smart.
    Crime story Mare of Easttown, starring Kate Winslet, and British rape drama I May Destroy You, starring and created by Michaela Coel, will face off in a robust discipline for greatest restricted collection.

    Other nominations went to progressive superhero dramedy WandaVision, which received 23 nominations, together with for stars Paul Bettany and Elizabeth Olsen, chess drama The Queen’s Gambit and harrowing slavery story The Underground Railroad.
    In the documentary race, Framing Britney Spears in regards to the pop singer’s profession and long-running conservatorship battle, picked up a nod.
    The coronavirus pandemic disrupted manufacturing of TV reveals, that means some, together with final 12 months’s drama collection winner Succession, didn’t return in time for Emmy consideration.
    The Emmy Awards shall be handed out at a ceremony in Los Angeles on September 19.