HBO dominates Emmy Awards, winning best drama, comedy and limited series

But it was HBO that dominated the night.

In addition to top comedy series honors, Veep – the misadventures of a female United States vice president who rises to the presidency – saw its star Julia Louis-Dreyfus win for the fourth time in a row.

Veep’s British creator Armando Iannucci (Alan Partridge, The Thick of It) accepted the show’s award for outstanding comedy series from comedy legend Mel Brooks.

– Jon Hamm can not contain himself after finally winning his first Emmy, for best actor in a drama series, for his portrayal of seductive, mysterious 1960s ad man Don Draper on “Mad Men“.

Hamm, a graduate of John Burroughs, thanked the families who took him in after his mother passed away from colon cancer when he was just 10 years old.

Davis made Emmy history by becoming the first black actress to win the outstanding lead actress in a drama series award.

Davis quoted Harriet Tubman in her acceptance speech.

With that, here are five things you didn’t see on TV during the Emmys… The network also returned to the winner’s circle in the top category for the first time since 2007, when it won for the final season of “The Sopranos“, another big commercial hit. “Thank you to HBO [which] in their wisdom paired a couple of novice producers with people of great experience”. Thank you for your stories.

“Transparent” captured a best comedy actor award for Jeffrey Tambor and a directing award for creator Jill Soloway, giving both winners a chance to pay tribute to the show’s transgender themes. “We don’t have a trans tipping point yet”.

Compared to the record-breaking MTV Video Music Awards, the awards show was a slightly more demure affair, capped off with fewer buzzy moments generating a more-modest amount of tweets.

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She’s previously won for her performances in The West Wing and Masters of Sex. It was the 13th consecutive year that Comedy Central has won the award, and the 10th win over all in that category for Mr. Stewart’s show. “This show fights for what we believe in”, Schumer said.

GoT won key awards out of its 83 nominations at the 67th annual Primetime Emmy Awards. Hosted by Saturday Night Live alumnus Andy Samberg, the three-hour telecast garnered roughly 1.4 million tweets, according to Amobee Brand Intelligence.

The Glaswegian accepted the outstanding writing for a comedy series award for the script for the election night episode of political comedy, Veep. Donald Trump said that.

All that said, last year’s show was a hard one to beat. Far behind in second was ABC with 42, followed by CBS and NBC with 41 each.