When Catherine O’Hara leaned into the microphone to announce the winner of the Outstanding Comedy Series award at last year’s Emmys , things had been going more or less as expected for The Bear . Jeremy Allen White, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, and Christopher Storer all repeated their victories from the year before, while Liza Colon-Zayas nabbed her first win in a Supporting Actress upset. “In that room, we don’t get a lot of surprises,” one attendee who worked on a nominated series told me. “As awards nights go on, you start to be like, Oh, here it is, here we go again .”

But there we didn’t go again! O’Hara declared Hacks the winner, and the show’s contingent, led by creators Paul W. Downs, Lucia Aniello, and Jen Statsky, took the stage to the jubilation of the gathered TV pro

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