More victories for Ted Lasso

Brett Goldstein has another Emmy award to add to his collection.

The comic won the award for best supporting actor in a comedy series for his role as assistant coach Roy Kent in Red Lasso for the second year running.

It made him the category’s first back-to-back winner since Jeremy Piven won three consecutive Emmys for HBO’s Entourage from 2006 to 2008.

Collecting his award, Goldstein, who is also a writer on the Apple TV+ comedy, referred to last year’s ceremony, when he broke the ceremony’s no-swearing rule causing much of his acceptance speech to be bleeped out.

He said: ‘Thank you so much. I’m really going to try not to swear. ‘

He thanked those behind the show ‘for creating this magical thing and letting me be a little part of it. I will never take it for granted. It’s incredible.

‘And to the cast and my fellow nominees. The hardest part of being in Ted Lasso is being in a scene with anyone from this cast and not ruining the take by just staring at them again and going, "God, you’re good."

‘Last time I was here, I was told not to swear and I did. And I’m sorry, but it meant the feed got cut back home in the UK, so my family never got to hear me say this. So thank you for this second chance.

‘Mum, Dad, Tara, Matt, Zebbie and Bo. I fucking love you. I really do. I’m so sorry. I’ll be better. Thank you very much.’

Other nominees in his category included his Ted Lasso co-stars Nick Mohammed and Toheeb Jimoh.

The show’s star and co-creator Jason Sudeikis also repeated his 2021 Emmy success by winning best leading comedy actor for playing the titular football coach. And the show itself was named best comedy for the second year running.

Lead actress in a comedy series went to Jean Smart for Hacks, and supporting actress went to Sheryl Lee Ralph for Abbott Elementary, whose creator Quinta Brunson picked up the award for comedy writing.

Last Week Tonight With John Oliver won the Emmy for outstanding variety talk series, while George Carlin’s American Dream won outstanding documentary or non-fiction special.

Oliver said on collecting his award: 'We we know how lucky we are to get to make the exact show that we want, exactly the way that we want to make it  - whether that's making a Korean subway drama, or blackmailing Congress over data brokers, or staging an elaborate cabbage wedding. We know how lucky we are.'

And referring to the autocue, he noted: 'It's saying "stop now" in big letters. I don't know if that's the speech or in general. Either way it's a fair point. Thank you so much.'

The outstanding drama Emmy went to Succession, also for a second year running.

Creator Jesse Armstrong – also half the partnership behind Peep Show – commented on the monarchy during his acceptance speech.

He said: It’s a big week for successions - new King in the UK, this for us. Evidently a bit more voting involved in our winning than Prince Charles.’

Following the audience’s muted response, the show’s star Brian Cox told Armstrong: ‘Keep it royalist.’

Goldstein has recently been revealed as playing the role of Hercules in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, after making a brief appearance in the mid-credits scene of Thor: Love and Thunder earlier this year.

Published: 13 Sep 2022