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How The Bear Lost the Best Comedy Emmy to Hacks
To start, it wasn’t a comedy.
Hacks walked away on Sunday night with three major trophies: Jean Smart for Lead Actress (her third win in four years for Hacks and sixth career Emmy overall); Lucia Aniello, Paul W. Downs, and Jen Statsky for writing the third-season finale, “Bulletproof”; and a completely unexpected win in Outstanding Comedy Series. Support your local comedian!” And while the plight of the endangered stand-up comic (or comedy writer) was not central to Hacks ’s Emmy campaign this year, you could feel an intentionality to Aniello’s statement. That’s when it dawned on me that all of those people in writers’ rooms and at Emmys events and on social media — whose resentment toward The Bear had overridden their polite decorum — they all vote.
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