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Comedy winners at the 2019 Creative Arts Emmys

W. Kamau Bell won another Emmy Award for his CNN program, United Shades of America! Hannah Gadsby and Rachel Bloom both won their first Emmys!

Here’s a full list of comedy-related winners from this weekend’s two-night celebration of the Creative Arts Emmys, aka all of the Emmy Awards they didn’t want to include in the live primetime telecast next weekend.

Note: You will get to see the edited version of these award winners when FXX broadcasts the Creative Emmy Awards on Saturday, Sept. 21 at 8:00 PM ET/PT.

OUTSTANDING UNSTRUCTURED REALITY PROGRAM: UNITED SHADES OF AMERICA WITH W. KAMAU BELL, CNN

OUTSTANDING CHARACTER VOICE-OVER PERFORMANCE: SETH MACFARLANE as Peter Griffin, Stewie Griffin, Brian Griffin, Glenn Quagmire, Tom Tucker, Seamus on Family Guy, “Con Heiress” FOX

OUTSTANDING ANIMATED PROGRAM: THE SIMPSONS “Mad About The Toy,” FOX

OUTSTANDING WRITING FOR A VARIETY SPECIAL: HANNAH GADSBY, Nanette, Netflix

OUTSTANDING SHORT FORM NONFICTION OR REALITY SERIES: CREATING SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE, NBC (NBC.COM)

OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL MUSIC AND LYRICS: ADAM SCHLESINGER, RACHEL BLOOM, and JACK DOLGEN, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, The CW
“I Have To Get Out / Song Title: Antidepressants Are So Not A Big Deal”

OUTSTANDING VARIETY SPECIAL (LIVE): LIVE IN FRONT OF A STUDIO AUDIENCE: NORMAN LEAR’S ‘ALL IN THE FAMILY’ AND ‘THE JEFFERSONS’, ABC

OUTSTANDING SHORT FORM COMEDY OR DRAMA SERIES: STATE OF THE UNION, SUNDANCETV

OUTSTANDING ACTRESS IN A SHORT FORM COMEDY OR DRAMA SERIES: ROSAMUND PIKE as Louise, State of the Union, SUNDANCETV

OUTSTANDING ACTOR IN A SHORT FORM COMEDY OR DRAMA SERIES: CHRIS O’DOWD as Tom, State of the Union, SUNDANCETV

OUTSTANDING GUEST ACTRESS IN A COMEDY SERIES: JANE LYNCH as Sophie Lennon, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, PRIME VIDEO

OUTSTANDING GUEST ACTOR IN A COMEDY SERIES: LUKE KIRBY as Lenny Bruce, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, PRIME VIDEO

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