The touching reason behind Julia Louis-Dreyfus’ tearful Emmy win

The Veep actress won her fifth consecutive Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series – a record breaking win for most wins in a single category.

The national treasure and eternal Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series victor apologized for giving rise to the Donald Trump presidential candidacy: “Veep started out as satire, but it now feels like a sobering documentary“.

“I’m glad he liked “Veep”, she said”.

“If Donald Trump gets elected and he builds that wall, the first person we are throwing over it is Mark Burnett”, Kimmel said, setting the political tone of the show 50 days before America elects its next president. “Our show started out as a political satire, but it now feels like a sobering documentary“, said Louis-Dreyfus.

“So I certainly do promise to rebuild that wall and make Mexico pay for it”, she quipped, referencing Republican nominee Donald Trump’s controversial immigration policy.

The Julia Louis-Dreyfus vehicle beat out ABC comedies Black-ish and Modern Family, fellow HBO comedy Silicon Valley, Amazon’s Transparent, and Netflix’s Master of None and Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt.

JLD picked up her fifth consecutive Emmy Award a short while ago for her role as Selina Meyer on HBO’s stunningly amusing series ‘Veep,’ breaking the record for most consecutive Emmy Awards won by an actor.

“He calls women pigs if they don’t look like beauty pageant contestants, he blames Muslims and Mexicans for our problems, he makes fun of disabled people”, she said angrily.

Rami Malek won for best actor in a drama series for his role in “Mr. Robot”.

The actress’s speech kicked off with perhaps expected jabs at this year’s presidential election.

Downton Abbey actress Dame Maggie stayed away from the Los Angeles ceremony but won a best supporting actress gong for her role as Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham, in the hit period drama.

Louie Anderson took home the outstanding supporting actor in a comedy series for his performance in Baskets.

“Transparent” creator Jill Soloway compared Trump to Adolf Hitler during the awards ceremony, which was filled with references to the U.S. election.

Meanwhile, Courtney B Vance was named outstanding actor in a limited series for his portrayal of defence lawyer Johnnie Cochran, beating co-star Cuba Gooding Jr who played OJ Simpson. Nominated actress Sarah Paulson brought Simpson prosecutor Marcia Clark as her date.