After The Bear astir swept the acting categories astatine the 2024 Emmys with Jeremy Allen White, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Liza Colón-Zayas and much winning, fans pointed retired that the amusement is not a comedy.
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While it’s wide accepted that The Bear is a critically acclaimed amusement filled with immense talent, viewers of the 2024 Emmys weren’t needfully successful statement with the yearly grant show’s determination to spot the FX bid successful the drama category.
Even Emmys cohosts Eugene Levy and Dan Levy poked fun astatine the antithetic categorization during their opening monologue.
Noting that the amusement is the astir nominated drama successful Emmys history, the American Pie prima joked, “I emotion the show, and I cognize immoderate of you are expecting america to marque a gag astir whether The Bear is truly a comedy. But successful the existent tone of The Bear, we volition not beryllium making immoderate jokes.”
Though the Chicago-based cook amusement mislaid retired to Hacks successful the Outstanding Comedy Series category, it astir swept each of the large acting categories.
Guest stars Jamie Lee Curtis and Jon Bernthal won for Guest Actress and Actor successful a Comedy Series astatine the Creative Arts Emmys. And star Jeremy Allen White picked up the Lead Actor successful a Comedy Series trophy arsenic did supporting stars Ebon Moss-Bachrach and Liza Colón-Zayas.
And portion galore agreed that the actors deserved their flowers, it was the drama categorization that upset Emmys viewers arsenic they felt the wins took distant from different apical comedic actors connected deed shows similar Abbott Elementary, Only Murders successful the Building, and more.
“I really, really, *really* request the Television Academy to hole the class criteria earlier adjacent year’s #Emmys,” 1 commenter wrote connected X (formerly Twitter), “Because ‘The Bear’ sweeping drama implicit shows similar ‘Abbott Elementary’ is really infuriating. All those actors and existent comedies merit better.”
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The viewers didn’t contradict the endowment of The Bear’s cast, with different idiosyncratic tweeting, “Is everyone acceptable for a CRAZY opinion??? The Bear is large and the formed is each doing stellar work, but the amusement is not a drama and if I were an histrion saying existent jokes successful an existent drama I’d beryllium truthful f—king annoyed watching each grant get snatched away!!! #emmys.”
Another commenter called White “an astonishing actor,” but pointed retired that helium “hasn’t delivered 1 comic enactment successful 3 seasons.”
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