{"id":231205,"date":"2019-09-16T22:32:30","date_gmt":"2019-09-17T02:32:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=231205"},"modified":"2019-09-16T22:32:30","modified_gmt":"2019-09-17T02:32:30","slug":"canadian-luke-kirby-wins-emmy-for-guest-role-on-mrs-maisel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/09\/16\/canadian-luke-kirby-wins-emmy-for-guest-role-on-mrs-maisel\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian Luke Kirby wins Emmy for guest role on ‘Mrs. Maisel’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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An Emmy Awards newcomer from Canada upset a category of comedy veterans while a trio of established stage and screen actors were honoured for guest TV performances at Sunday’s creative arts Emmys. (File Photo By David Shankbone – Own work, CC BY 3.0<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

LOS ANGELES \u2014\u00a0An Emmy Awards newcomer from Canada upset a category of comedy veterans while a trio of established stage and screen actors were honoured for guest TV performances at Sunday’s creative arts Emmys.<\/p>\n

Bradley Whitford and Cherry Jones received trophies for their roles on the Toronto-shot drama “The Handmaid’s Tale”\u00a0at the ceremony, a precursor to the main bash airing Sept. 22 on CTV and Fox.<\/p>\n

Jane Lynch and Hamilton-born Luke Kirby won on the comedy side, both for “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.”\u00a0The Amazon Prime Video series was the top comedy series winner, with six awards.<\/p>\n

“Game of Thrones”\u00a0led with 10 Emmys in technical and other categories, including a trophy for Halifax’s Paula Fairfield in the sound editing category as part of the team on the HBO drama. It’s Fairfield’s second win after nabbing a trophy for the same series in 2015. She’s been nominated for “Game of Thrones”\u00a0in four other years, and received three previous nominations for work on ABC\/CTV’s “Lost.”<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Montreal-based Elisabeth Williams was among the team of winners for best production design for “The Handmaid’s Tale,”\u00a0which airs on Crave. She also won last year for the series, and earned a nomination in 2016 for FX’s “Fargo.”<\/p>\n

Kirby won for his turn as Lenny Bruce on “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,”\u00a0in which the late New York comedian is reimagined as a mentor to housewife-turned-emerging comic Midge Maisel, played by Rachel Brosnahan.<\/p>\n

Following his nomination earlier this summer, Bruce spoke about the first time he learned about the envelope-pushing standup.<\/p>\n

“I think it was a copy of his book in my grandparents’ attic in Ontario,”\u00a0said Kirby, who grew up in Guelph, Ont., but now lives in New York.<\/p>\n

“They kept all of my Uncle Peter’s old stuff and there was a copy of ‘How to Talk Dirty and Influence People.’ I don’t think I read it at the time but I sort of flipped through it. It was intriguing. And then over the years I delved a little deeper in my research.”<\/p>\n

The first-time nominee upset some serious heavyweights in the category, including fellow “Maisel”\u00a0actor Rufus Sewell, “Veep”\u00a0actor Peter MacNicol, and “Saturday Night Live”\u00a0performers Adam Sandler, Robert De Niro, Matt Damon, and John Mulaney.<\/p>\n

Kirby’s win follows a diverse list of credits that include TV series “The Deuce,”\u00a0“Rectify”\u00a0and “Tell Me You Love Me,”\u00a0as well as Canadian features “Take This Waltz”\u00a0and “The Stone Angel.”<\/p>\n

Lynch, who added to her four previous Emmys for series including “Glee”\u00a0and “Hollywood Game Night,”\u00a0said she based her portrayal of a 1950s comic on the women she grew up watching.<\/p>\n

“I went right to the source: Phyllis Diller, Totie Fields, Moms Mabley,”\u00a0Lynch said. “Back then, in order for a woman to be in comedy, she had to have a gimmick. Usually that meant cracking wise about her own looks, her bad body, how she can’t hold on to a man. But these women did it with such panache and style and such self-possession, and they inspire me.”<\/p>\n

Jones, who previously won for “24,”\u00a0heaped praise backstage on fellow nominee Phylicia Rashad (“This Is Us”), calling it “absurd”\u00a0that Rashad has yet to win an Emmy despite four nominations, and saluted Cicely Tyson, nominated for “How to Get Away with Murder.”<\/p>\n

“I got to tell Ms. Tyson tonight that watching the ‘Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman’ is one of the things that made me want to be an actress, and I tell her that every time I see her and she always rolls her eyes,”\u00a0Jones said.<\/p>\n

Whitford has an Emmy for “The West Wing”\u00a0and one for “Transparent”\u00a0\u2014\u00a0the latter for guest actor in a comedy, making him the first actor to win comedy and drama guest star Emmys.<\/p>\n

In his acceptance speech, Whitford struck a political note as he thanked Toronto author Margaret Atwood for the titular novel that is the basis of the dystopian “The Handmaid’s Tale.”<\/p>\n

Atwood is “giving us perspective in this disorienting moment as we are inundated and undermined by a misogynistic, radical, right-wing ideology,”\u00a0he said. “She understands three things: Despair is not an option. Our children can’t afford it. Action is the antidote to despair.”<\/p>\n

The British marital comedy “State of the Union”\u00a0won the Emmy for best short-form comedy or drama series, with short-form acting honours going to its stars, Chris O’Dowd and Rosamund Pike.<\/p>\n

“Leaving Neverland,”\u00a0which details two men’s allegations that pop star Michael Jackson sexually abused them as children, was honoured at Saturday’s ceremony as best documentary or nonfiction special. Before his 2009 death, Jackson denied repeated, similar allegations against him, and his estate has denounced the documentary.<\/p>\n

Among other awards presented:<\/p>\n

\u2014\u00a0Animated program: “The Simpsons: Mad About the Toy.”<\/p>\n

\u2014\u00a0Character voice-over performance: Seth MacFarlane, “Family Guy: Con Heiress.”<\/p>\n

\u2014\u00a0Host for a reality or competition program: RuPaul, “RuPaul’s Drag Race.”<\/p>\n

\u2014\u00a0Unstructured reality program: “United Shades of America with W. Kamau Bell.”<\/p>\n

\u2014\u00a0Documentary or nonfiction series: “Our Planet.”<\/p>\n

\u2014\u00a0Commercial: “Dream Crazy,”\u00a0Nike.<\/p>\n

\u2014\u00a0Music composition for a limited series, movie or special (original dramatic score): Hildur Gudnadottir, “Chornobyl: Please Remain Calm.”<\/p>\n

\u2014\u00a0Music composition for a series (original dramatic score): Ramin Djawadi, “Game of Thrones: The Long Night.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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