“How could I have thought it would be possible to be in the presence of Meryl Streep and Carol Burnett,” Colón-Zayas said as tears welled in her eyes as she accepted the award on the stage of the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles.
She is the first Latina to win in the category.
“To all the Latinas who are looking at me,” she said, “keep believing and vote.”
The Bear could easily repeat the performance it had at the January strike-delayed Emmys, when it won six including most of the top categories in comedy.
While the third season of FX’s The Bear has already dropped, the trio won their second Emmys for its second, in which White’s chef Carmen “Carmy” Berzatto attempts to turn his family’s grungy Chicago sandwich shop into an elite restaurant, with Moss-Bachrach’s Richard “Cousin Richie” Jerimovich goes from foul-mouthed ruffian to mindful maître d’.
The father-son hosting duo of Eugene and Dan Levy in their monologue at the top of the show mocked the very dramatic The Bear being in the comedy category.
“Welcome to the 76th Primetime Emmy Awards,” Dan Levy said on the ABC telecast from the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles. “Also known as broadcast TV’s biggest night for honouring movie stars on streaming services.”
“In honour of The Bear we will be making no jokes,” Eugene Levy said, to laughs.
The two Canadian stars of Schitt’s Creek were among the big winners of the pandemic-era Emmys in 2020.
Jean Smart won best actress in a comedy for Hacks. She has won for all three seasons of Hacks, and has six Emmys overall.