It’s official! Tricks won the award for Outstanding Comedy Series at the 76th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards.

Co-founder Paul W. Downs, who received the award on Sunday, September 15, together with the Tricks cast on the Emmys stage, said, “I have no thoughts in my head. Thank you so much to the academy, let’s brace ourselves, I might get emotional. I have to say we are so lucky to be living our dream and making television and we couldn’t do it without our Hacks family. All of our writers, all of our cast, all of our crew who make our dreams come true, literally.”

“When we pitched this show about two women, one of whom was over 60, we didn’t know if we would sell it,” he continued, “About 20% of our population is over 60, and only 3% of those characters (are) on television. I’d love to see more of that because even though I’m a great young supporting actor, I really want to be a good old leading man.”

Writer and director Lucia Aniello added: “Comedy is so important, obviously, to us, and we really feel like it can bridge the gap. If you laugh with someone, you have something in common with them. So please support comedy, it speaks truth to power. It really does, so support your local comedian.”

She concluded by saying, “We have to go because in five days we start filming the next season.”

Trickswhich premiered its first season in 2021, tells the story of the complex relationship between comedian Deborah (Jean Smart) and comedy writer Ava (Hannah Einbinder), who come from two very different generations.

Smart, 72 — who also won an Emmy for Outstanding Actress in a Comedy Series — spoke candidly about her role as a comedian in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter in June.

“When I read the script, I thought, ‘This is everything I could ever want for my next job,'” she said. “But I had to make sure that real stand-ups could believe that I was a comedian. I’d never been a comedian, so they were the real litmus test. And I passed, I think!”

The other nominees for best comedy series included: Abbott Elementary School, The Bear, Curb your enthusiasm, Only murders in the building, Palm Royale, Reservation Dogs And What we do in the shadows.

Abbott Elementary School follows a group of Philadelphia teachers, mockumentary-style, as they navigate the challenges of teaching in an inner-city public school. Star and creator Quinta Brunson was inspired by her mother’s experience as a kindergarten teacher when developing the series.

“My mother is the person you make television or movies for,” Brunson, 34, said The New York Times“She’s the person who watches TV and laughs and watches a movie and gasping for breath! The stuff you write, where it’s like, ‘Oh man, she’s going to get this’ — my mom is the one getting caught. So she’s not interested in giving her opinion or giving advice. She doesn’t give a shit.”

Abbott Elementary School — which returns for a fourth season on October 9 — received a total of nine Emmy nominations in 2024, including one for Brunson and supporting roles for Janelle James, Sheryl Lee Ralph and Tyler James Williams.

The Bear tells the story of chef Carmen “Carmy” Berzatto (Jeremy Allen White) who returns to his Chicago hometown to transform a local sandwich shop after the unexpected death of his brother (Jon Bernthal).

Before filming the FX series, White, 33, revealed that he and co-star Ayo Edebiri trained with professional chefs.

“Before we did the pilot, I went to the Institute of Culinary Education in Pasadena,” White explained in a 2022 interview with W“That’s where I met Ayo. We got to know each other while cooking, which was fun, because Sydney and Carmy communicate with each other mainly through cooking.”

Curb your enthusiasm premiered on HBO in 2000, inspired by an hour-long mockumentary that was originally intended as a one-off in which Larry David portrays an exaggerated version of himself. The show went on hiatus in 2011 after season 8, and resumed in 2017. The series received a total of 55 Emmy nominations and six Golden Globe nominations over the course of 24 years.

“If To curb “As the end approaches, I will now have the opportunity to finally shed this ‘Larry David’ persona and become the person God intended me to be: the thoughtful, kind, caring, considerate human being that I was until I went off the rails portraying this evil character,” David joked in December 2023 when To curb announced its final season.

He continued: “And so ‘Larry David,’ I bid you farewell. Your misanthropy will not be missed. And for those of you who wish to contact me, you can reach me through Doctors Without Borders.”

Starring Steve Martin, Martin Short and Selena Gomez, Only murders in the building follows three New Yorkers living on the Upper West Side who have a passion for true crime podcasts, eventually finding themselves in the middle of (a few) real crimes.

Short, 74, told PEOPLE in May that it’s a pleasure to work with co-stars Martin, 79, and Gomez, 32, on the hit Hulu series, which premiered its fourth season on Aug. 27.

“It’s a really, really, really loose, fun set. I think everyone feels the same way — that working on the show is really fun and loose, and that’s kind of Steve’s philosophy, the way he’s always worked, and Selena’s too,” Short said. “So everyone’s working in joy and happiness, because we’re happy people.”

On Palm RoyaleKristen Wiig stars as Maxine Simmons, who tries to gain access to the exclusive high society of Palm Beach in 1969, while Carol Burnett takes on the role of Norma, who is described as “the grande dame of Palm Beach high society.”

The Saturday Night Live alum told Entertainment tonight that she was very happy for the opportunity to work with the comedy legend.

“I literally said today, ‘I still can’t believe we’re working together,'” she shared. “I want to confirm that it’s her. I’m like, ‘It’s Carol, right? Yeah, I mean, it’s Carol.'”

“And for me, just with sketch comedy and everything she did for every person, every woman, she’s such an inspiration,” she added. “It was the crew, everyone. I mean, she’s just a dream.”

Reservation Dogs follows a group of native teens in Oklahoma who want to travel to California. They decide they will do anything to get the money, even if they have to steal it.

Star Devery Jacobs told PEOPLE in 2021 that she is grateful that Reservation Dogsfounded by Sterlin Harjo and Taika Waititi, gives an often marginalized group the chance to shine.

“It’s about fucking time that Native people are represented on this scale,” she shared. “Rarely have we had the opportunity to tell our own stories. It’s so perfect that it’s a comedy because our communities are actually so funny. And no one in Western culture really thinks of Native people as anything other than this idea of ​​the stoic Indian that was shot in old Western movies. Or they think of stereotypes like Pocahontas. We haven’t had many opportunities to be three-dimensional.”

Created by Flight of the Conchords’ Jemaine Clement and based on the 2015 film of the same name, What we do in the shadows follows the daily lives of four vampires on Staten Island, New York, who struggle to adjust to the human world – with many problems along the way.

The film stars Harvey Guillén as Guillermo de la Cruz, Kayvan Novak as Nandor the Relentless, Matt Berry as Laszlo Cravensworth, Natasia Demetriou as Nadja of Antipaxtos, Mark Proksch as “energy vampire” Colin Robinson, and Schaal as The Guide, along with many recurring and one-time guest stars including Beanie Feldstein, Nick Kroll, Mark Hamill, Fred Armisen, Doug Jones, Vanessa Bayer, Haley Joel Osment, Sofia Coppola, Patton Oswalt, and Taika Waititi.

Proksch said at San Diego Comic-Con in July that the news that the FX series would end after six seasons “didn’t really change the mood” when they returned to the set.

“We’re all having a lot of fun on set, and I think it’s, like Matt and Paul said, a good time,” he explained. “You don’t want to stay too long and you don’t want to become a parody of yourself. And I think six seasons in this time is just (phenomenal).”

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