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Hannah Einbinder, Samantha Bee, John Leguizamo and More Deliver Laughs and a Few Tears for Variety’s Power of Comedy at SXSW
Samantha Bee, Hannah Einbinder, John Leguizamo and more delivered laughs and a few tears at Variety's Power of Comedy Awards at SXSW.
She name-checked her co-star Smart and “Hacks” creators Jen Statsky, Paul W. Downs and Lucia Aniello, thanking them for having “made the gaping hole in my heart much, much smaller.” Nick Thune presented the Comedy Actor award to John Leguizamo, noting his range goes all the way back to Shakespeare’s “Romeo & Juliet” — well, Baz Luhrmann’s 1996 version. When Praw accepted the honor, which he received in part for the record-breaking live-streamed standup comedy special Netflix did with Chris Rock last year, he revealed he had been made fun of all week by the comedians he works with — and also his wife and kids, who “laughed in my face” when they sent the “champ” off to Austin.
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