Award ceremonies are always more fun when there’s a surprise or two stuffed into the envelopes. There was a big one waiting at the end of last night’s 76th Primetime Emmy Awards: Despite a whopping, record-breaking 23 nominations (some for televised awards and some not), The Bear didn’t pull a repeat of last year’s ceremony and take home Outstanding Comedy Series again. The last award of the night instead went to HBO’s Hacks, a different kind of workplace comedy that in its third season continued to trace the relationship between an aging stand-up comic (Jean Smart, who won an Emmy last night, too) and the young writer (Hannah Einbinder) shadowing her. Were voters spreading the wealth? Or was the upset an acknowledgment that, however funny, Christopher Storer’s chaos-in-the-kitchen sensation is more of a drama with some laughs than any kind of comedy in the traditional sense?
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