The Bear is coming back for seconds in a big way at the Emmys, scoring repeat wins four times including best actor, best supporting actor and best supporting actress in a comedy.
The star of the FX show Jeremy Allen White won best actor in a comedy for the second straight year, and Ebon Moss-Bachrach repeated as best supporting actor.
A surprise came when Liza Colón-Zayas won best supporting actor over major competition.
“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 Theatre 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’s creator, Christopher Storer, won best directing of a comedy series, an award handed out by reunited Happy Days co-stars Ron Howard and Henry Winkler.
The show won six times including most of the top comedy categories at the strike-delayed Emmys in January.
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. It could still win more including best comedy series.
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.
“In honour of ‘The Bear’ we will be making no jokes,” Eugene Levy said, to laughs.
Jean Smart won best actress in a comedy for Hacks. She has won for all three seasons of Hacks, and has six Emmys overall.
She beat nominees including Ayo Edebiri, who as co-star of The Bear moved from supporting actress, which she won in January, to lead actress.
