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'The Daily Show...', Amy Schumer win big at Variety Emmys
Los Angeles, Sep 21
"The Daily Show With Jon
Stewart" and actress Amy Schumer with "Inside Amy Schumer" emerged as
top winners in Variety category of Emmy awards at the 67th annual
Primetime Emmy Awards ceremony here.
The annual television award ceremony was held at the Microsoft Theater here on Sunday.
"The
Daily Show With Jon Stewart" took an Emmy in Variety Talk Series
category, Directing for a Variety Series category and Writing for a
Variety Series category, while actress Schumer clinched her first Emmy
in the Variety Sketch Series.
Other nominations in the Variety
Talk Series were: "The Colbert Report", "Jimmy Kimmel Live!", "Last Week
Tonight With John Oliver", "The Late Show With David Letterman" and
"The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallona".
Chuck O'Neil of "The
Daily Show With Jon Stewart" pipped Amy Schumer and Ryan McFaul ("Inside
Amy Schumer"), James Hoskinson ("The Colbert Report"), Jerry Foley
("Late Show with David Letterman") and Dave Diomedi ("The Tonight Show
Starring Jimmy Fallona") to take home the Emmy in the Directing for a
Variety Series.
Schumer registered her first Emmy win after
taking away the home by competing with "Drunk History", "Key &
Peele", "Portlandia" and "Saturday Night Live".
Schumer, who has
also appeared in romantic comedy "Trainwreck", thanked her team, her
sister, and the makeup artist who did her smokey eyeshadow look, in her
acceptance speech.