With the Emmy Awards scheduled for Sunday night, here are my predictions for the awards for Comedy shows. I most likely have seen most of these shows, so, unlike my annual Oscar predictions, I will not mostly be going on gut feel and word of mouth, but will have a somewhat informed decision.
Outstanding Comedy
Atlanta
Black-ish
Master of None
Modern Family
Silicon Valley
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
Veep
Veep has won for the past two years and would seem to be a good choice to three-peat, so I’ll go with that.
Outstanding Actress In A Comedy
Pamela Adlon, Better Things
Jane Fonda, Grace and Frankie
Allison Janney, Mom
Ellie Kemper, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Veep
Tracee Ellis Ross, Black-ish
Lily Tomlin, Grace and Frankie
Julia Louis-Dreyfus won this award the past four years, and I see no reason why she won’t repeat again this year.
Outstanding Actor In A Comedy
Anthony Anderson, Black-ish
Aziz Ansari, Master of None
Zach Galifianakis, Baskets
Donald Glover, Atlanta
William H. Macy, Shameless
Jeffrey Tambor, Transparent
Jeffrey Tambor brought home the award the past two years for his gender-bending role on Amazon’s hit series, but I’m going to go out on a limb and go with Donald Glover.
Outstanding Supporting Actress In A Comedy
Vanessa Bayer, Saturday Night Live
Anna Chlumsky, Veep
Kathryn Hahn, Transparent
Leslie Jones, Saturday Night Live
Judith Light, Transparent
Kate McKinnon, Saturday Night Live
I don’t have much of a strong feeling one way or the other, so I’m going with Kate McKinnon, who took home the trophy last year.
Outstanding Supporting Actor In A Comedy
Louie Anderson, Baskets
Alec Baldwin, Saturday Night Live
Tituss Burgess, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
Ty Burrell, Modern Family
Tony Hale, Veep
Matt Walsh, Veep
This is a tough one. The 2 Veep stars are likely to again cancel each other out, so I’m going to go with Alec Baldwin for his recurring role as Donald Trump.
Outstanding Guest Actress In A Comedy
Becky Ann Baker, Girls
Angela Bassett, Master of None
Carrie Fisher, Catastrophe
Melissa McCarthy, Saturday Night Live
Wanda Sykes, Black-ish
Kristen Wiig, Saturday Night Live
Sadly, I already know who won this award, so rather than pretend otherwise, I’ll go along with the Academy and give it to Melissa McCarthy for her appearances as Sean Spicer on SNL.
Outstanding Guest Actor In A Comedy
Riz Ahmed, Girls
Dave Chappelle, Saturday Night Live
Tom Hanks, Saturday Night Live
Hugh Laurie, Veep
Lin-Manuel Miranda, Saturday Night Live
Matthew Rhys, Girls
Again, this award was given out last weekend, so I already know that Dave Chappelle already took home the trophy, his first.