Listed here are 10 memorable moments from the 2024 Primetime Emmy Awards

The 2024 Primetime Emmy Awards passed off in Los Angeles on Monday night time after being postponed because of the SAG-AFTRA and WGA strikes. The awards present, hosted by actor and comic Anthony Anderson, included historic wins and highly effective speeches. Listed here are the highest 10 memorable moments from the Emmys.

Christina Applegate will get a standing ovation

Applegate, who has MS, introduced the primary award of the night time for excellent supporting actress in a comedy collection. She walked out with a cane alongside host Anthony Anderson and one other escort, who helped her to the microphone. Because the viewers gave her a standing ovation, Applegate joked: “You are completely shaming my incapacity by standing up.”

Applegate, who started performing as an toddler when she appeared as a child on “Days of Our Lives,” has been nominated for eight Emmys, profitable excellent visitor actress in a comedy collection in 2003 for her position on “Associates.”

Applegate revealed in 2021 that she had been recognized with a number of sclerosis. The illness impacts the central nervous system and might trigger signs like fatigue, numbness, ache, reminiscence issues and even blindness or paralysis. 

Quinta Brunson lives her comedic dream

The “Abbot Elementary” star received for excellent actress in a comedy collection – turning into the primary Black lady in additional than 40 years to take residence that award. In 1981, Isabel Sanford, the final Black lady to take residence an award, received for her portrayal of Louise Jefferson in “The Jeffersons” – a task she was nominated for a whopping seven occasions.

Throughout her tearful acceptance speech, Brunson stated “Abbott Elementary” – a present that she created – permits her to dwell her dream of performing out comedy. She admitted she did not put together a speech and thanked her household, husband and solid. 

In 2022, she received the Emmy for excellent writing for a comedy collection for the present.

Elton John earns EGOT standing

The singer received the Emmy for excellent selection particular (dwell) for his present “Elton John Dwell: Farewell From Dodger Stadium.” The Emmy makes him one among simply 19 EGOT winners – which means he has been awarded each one of many 4 main leisure awards.

Different EGOT winners – those that have received an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony – embody Viola Davis, Mel Brooks and Audrey Hepburn.

The 76-year-old star was not there to just accept his Emmy, as a result of he’s recovering from a knee operation, however his companion David Furnish was on the ceremony and stated John “screamed” when he discovered about his win.

Anthony Anderson’s mother wraps up acceptance speeches

Actor Anthony Anderson hosted the awards present and advised the viewers that as a substitute of the standard play-off music that indicators them to wrap up their acceptance speeches, his mother could be the one to kick them off stage.

Throughout a bit in his opening monologue, Anderson’s mother, Doris, advised him to “shut up.” “That is sufficient, I need to go to the after-party,” she joked.

All through the ceremony, she held up cue playing cards throughout acceptance speeches to let stars know after they have been getting too long-winded.

Ali Wong makes historical past

Ali Wong, who starred in “Beef,” appeared shocked when she received excellent lead actress in a restricted collection or film – sharing a kiss along with her boyfriend Invoice Hader earlier than she went up on stage to just accept the award. 

With the win, Wong turned the primary Asian lady to take residence a lead performing award on the Emmys. She additionally made historical past when she nabbed the award on the Golden Globes earlier this month.

Wong thanked her mother and father and daughters. “I would not be standing right here with out my wonderful mother and father, my mom and my father, who I so want was alive to share this with me. My hilarious father, who liked me unconditionally and taught me the worth of failure,” she stated. She thanked her daughters for uplifting her. 

The Netflix present earned 13 nominations and received 5 awards on Monday, together with excellent restricted or anthology collection.

Jennifer Coolidge thanks “all of the evil gays”

Jennifer Coolidge received excellent supporting actress in a drama collection for her portrayal of the whacky and rich Tanya McQuoid in “The White Lotus.”

Throughout her acceptance speech, Coolidge, 62, paid homage to the character, who within the present has the darkish realization that her homosexual associates are attempting to homicide her on a yacht, exclaiming: “These gays, they’re making an attempt to homicide me.”

On stage, she thanked “all of the evil gays,” getting amusing from the viewers. She additionally received an Emmy for enjoying the character – an viewers favourite – in 2022. 

Throughout her speech, Coolidge acquired a reminder from Doris Anderson that point was operating out and he or she wanted to wrap up. 

Niecy Nash-Betts provides highly effective speech

Nash-Betts received excellent supporting actress in a restricted or anthology collection or film for her position within the Ryan Murphy drama “Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story.” She thanked an extended checklist of individuals together with Murphy and co-star Evan Peters.

“And you recognize who I need to thank? I need to thank me,” she stated, receiving laughs and cheers. “For believing in me and doing what they stated I couldn’t do. And I need to say to myself in entrance of all you lovely individuals, ‘Go on lady along with your dangerous self. You probably did that.'”

“Lastly, I settle for this award on behalf of each Black and brown lady who has gone unheard, but over-policed. Like Glenda Cleveland, like Sandra Bland, like Breonna Taylor,” she continued. Within the anthology collection, Nash performed Cleveland, who tried to alert police about Jeffery Dahmer – a serial killer and intercourse offender – however was ignored.

“As an artist, my job is to talk fact to energy, and child I’mma do it until the day I die. Mama, I received,” she stated. 

“The Bear” actors share a kiss on stage

When “The Bear” received the excellent comedy collection, the complete solid went up on stage to just accept the award. Matty Matheson, a chef and restauranteur who acted on the present concerning the workers at a Chicago restaurant, started to thank the restaurant business when co-star Ebon Moss-Bachrach interrupted his speech with a kiss.

After Moss-Bachrach, who received the Emmy for excellent supporting actor, let Matheson out of the lengthy lip-lock, the actor continued his speech. “I simply love eating places a lot – the nice, the dangerous. It is tough—we’re all damaged inside, and each single day we have got to indicate up and prepare dinner and make individuals really feel good by consuming one thing and sitting at a desk, and it is actually lovely,” he stated. “And all of us right here get to make a present collectively, and we get to make individuals really feel good—or full of anxiousness or triggered, it appears. However that is actually wonderful, it is lovely.”

Moss-Bachrach additionally joined Matheson to throw out the names of individuals to thank and Anderson’s mother held up an indication that learn: “Wrap it up now. Love, Mama.”

Kieran Culkin asks spouse for an additional child

Culkin, who performed Roman Roy on “Succession” received for lead actor in a drama collection, beating out co-stars Brian Cox and Jeremy Robust.

After tearfully thanking his solid members, writers, mother and supervisor, Culkin addressed his spouse. “Jazz, thanks for sharing your life with me and for giving me two wonderful children,” he stated. “I really like you so many and a lot. And Jazz, I would like extra.”

The group erupted in laughter and Culkin added: “You stated perhaps if I win.”

“Gray’s Anatomy” reunion

Justin Chambers, Katherine Heigl, Ellen Pompeo, James Pickens Jr. and Chandra Wilson, the celebrities of the hit medical drama “Gray’s Anatomy,” paid tribute to the solid, crew – and followers – of the long-running present. “Gray’s Anatomy,” which premiered in 2005, has had greater than 400 episodes over 19 seasons and is the longest-running primetime medical drama in TV historical past. 

The solid of “Cheers,” additionally reunited at a reproduction of the bar the sitcom was based mostly on. And “Sopranos” stars Michael Imperioli and Lorraine Bracco paid tribute to the hit drama 25 years after it first aired.