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2024 Emmys Hosts Eugene Levy & Dan Levy Roast 'The Bear' With Opening Monologue Joke
The 2024 Emmys got underway with Dan Levy and dada Eugene Levy addressing the elephant successful the room.
That, of course, would beryllium the information that The Bear is considered...funny.
"The Bear is nominated for 23 Emmys tonight, making it the astir nominated drama successful history," Eugene noted during their opening monologue. “Now, I emotion the amusement and I cognize immoderate of you mightiness beryllium expecting america to marque a gag astir whether The Bear is truly a comedy."
He added, "But, successful the existent tone of The Bear, we volition not beryllium making immoderate jokes."
Chef's kiss, right?
Because while The Bear certainly has provided its stock of laughs—Jeremy Allen White's Carmy and Ebon Moss-Bachrach's Richie swearing profusely astatine each different has a definite comedic poesy to it (and the actors person the respective Emmys for pb and supporting performances to beryllium it—but astatine the extremity of the long, hard, grease-and-sauce-smeared day, the FX amusement is heartbreaking. (Click present for the implicit database of winners from the 2024 Emmys.)
And heartwarming astatine slightest a 4th of the time, but its half-hour presumption clip and again seems to beryllium what lands it successful drama categories, dramas similar the late, large Succession (if not The Crown or Shogun) having offered much jokes-per-minute than The Bear.
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Hacks star Hannah Einbinder's mom, original Saturday Night Live member Laraine Newman, certainly didn't enactment a lid connected her feelings: Shortly aft Liza Colón-Zayas, who plays coming-into-her-own sous-chef Tina, bested her girl successful the Outstanding Supporting Actress successful a Comedy Series race, Newman posted to X: ""F--K. THE. BEAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
She has since deleted the sentiment and wrote, "I deliberation the Bear is simply a large amusement but IMHO it’s not a comedy- not adjacent a acheronian comedy."
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Presumably her archetypal posted near a atrocious sensation successful the mouths of a excessively fewer galore fans of The Bear, which has won (so far) a whopping 21 Emmys implicit the people of its archetypal 2 seasons.
And nary substance whether you tune successful for its biting humor, the room drama, the compelling look of nausea connected Carmy's look erstwhile helium turns his ever-critical oculus inward... The Bear remains a buffet of entertainment.
See each the winners astatine the 2024 Emmys, successful each the categories, comic and otherwise:
Outstanding Lead Actor successful a Limited oregon Anthology Series oregon Movie
Matt Bomer, Fellow Travelers
WINNER: Richard Gadd, Baby Reindeer
Jon Hamm, Fargo
Tom Hollander, Feud: Capote vs. The Swans
Andrew Scott, Ripley
Outstanding Lead Actress successful a Limited oregon Anthology Series oregon Movie
WINNER: Jodie Foster, True Detective: Night Country
Brie Larson, Lessons successful Chemistry
Juno Temple, Fargo
Sofía Vergara, Griselda
Naomi Watts, Feud: Capote vs. The Swans
Outstanding Supporting Actress In A Limited Or Anthology Series Or Movie
Dakota Fanning, Ripley
Lily Gladstone, Under The Bridge
WINNER: Jessica Gunning, Baby Reindeer
Aja Naomi King, Lessons successful Chemistry
Diane Lane, Feud: Capote vs. The Swans
Nava Mau, Baby Reindeer
Kali Reis, True Detective: Night Country
Outstanding Supporting Actor In A Limited Or Anthology Series Or Movie
Jonathan Bailey, Fellow Travelers
John Hawkes, True Detective: Night Country
Robert Downey Jr., The Sympathizer
WINNER: Lamorne Morris, Fargo
Tom Goodman-Hill, Baby Reindeer
Treat Williams, Feud: Capote vs. The Swans
Outstanding Limited Or Anthology Series
WINNER: Baby Reindeer
Fargo
Lessons successful Chemistry
Ripley
True Detective: Night Country
Outstanding Talk Series
WINNER: The Daily Show
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Late Night With Seth Meyers
The Late Show With Stephen Colbert
Outstanding Reality Competition Program
The Amazing Race
Top Chef
RuPaul’s Drag Race
WINNER: The Traitors
The Voice
Outstanding Drama Series
The Crown
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
Fallout
Shogun
The Gilded Age
Slow Horses
The Morning Show
3 Body Problem
Outstanding Comedy Series
Abbott Elementary
The Bear
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Hacks
Only Murders In The Building
Palm Royale
Reservation Dogs
What We Do In The Shadows
Outstanding Supporting Actress In A Drama Series
Christine Baranski, The Gilded Age
Greta Lee, The Morning Show
Nicole Beharie, The Morning Show
Lesley Manville, The Crown
WINNER: Elizabeth Debicki, The Crown
Karen Pittman, The Morning Show
Holland Taylor, The Morning Show
Outstanding Supporting Actor In A Drama Series
Tadanobu Asano, Shogun
WINNER: Billy Crudup, The Morning Show
Mark Duplass, The Morning Show
Jon Hamm, The Morning Show
Takehiro Hira, Shogun
Jack Lowden, Slow Horses
Jonathan Pryce, The Crown
Outstanding Supporting Actress In A Comedy Series
Carol Burnett, Palm Royale
WINNER: Liza Colón-Zayas, The Bear
Hannah Einbinder, Hacks
Janelle James, Abbott Elementary
Sheryl Lee Ralph, Abbott Elementary
Meryl Streep, Only Murders successful the Building
Outstanding Supporting Actor In A Comedy Series
Lionel Boyce, The Bear
Paul Rudd, Only Murders successful the Building
Paul W. Downs, Hacks
Tyler James Williams, Abbott Elementary
WINNER: Ebon Moss-Bachrach, The Bear
Bowen Yang, Saturday Night Live
Outstanding Lead Actor In A Drama Series
Idris Elba, Hijack
WINNER: Hiroyuki Sanada, Shogun
Walton Goggins, Fallout
Dominic West, The Crown
Donald Glover, Mr. & Mrs. Smith
Gary Oldman, Slow Horses
Outstanding Lead Actress In A Drama Series
Jennifer Aniston, The Morning Show
WINNER: Anna Sawai, Shogun
Carrie Coon, The Gilded Age
Imelda Staunton, The Crown
Maya Erskine, Mr. & Mrs. Smith
Reese Witherspoon, The Morning Show
Outstanding Lead Actress In A Comedy Series
Quinta Brunson, Abbott Elementary
Maya Rudolph, Loot
Ayo Edebiri, The Bear
WINNER: Jean Smart, Hacks
Selena Gomez, Only Murders successful the Building
Kristen Wiig, Palm Royale
Outstanding Lead Actor In A Comedy Series
Matt Berry, What We Do In The Shadows
Larry David, Curb Your Enthusiasm
Steve Martin, Only Murders In The Building
Martin Short, Only Murders In The Building
WINNER: Jeremy Allen White, The Bear
D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tie, Reservation Dogs
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