Saturday Night Live wasn’t the only late-night winner at this weekend’s Creative Arts Emmys. While the NBC staple collected 11 awards, The Daily Show’s Desi Lydic walked away with two of her own, highlighting a strong showing for late-night across multiple categories.
Lydic’s YouTube spinoff The Daily Show: Desi Lydic Foxsplains won Outstanding Short Form Comedy, Drama or Variety Series, and she also claimed Outstanding Performer in a Short Form Comedy or Drama Series, for the samt series. The short form field was dominated by late-night brands, including Late Night With Seth Meyers: Corrections, The Tonight Show: During Commercial Break, and The Rabbit Hole With Jimmy Kimmel.
The Daily Show added a third trophy for Outstanding Writing for a Nonfiction Program with Jordan Klepper’s Fingers the Pulse: MAGA: The Next Generation.
Meanwhile, in what could be a preview of what’s to come at next weekend’s Primetime Emmy Awards ceremony, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert won its very first Emmy Award—for Outstanding Directing for a Variety Series, where it was up against Last Week Tonight With John Oliver, The Daily Show, and Jimmy Kimmel Live. It faces both Kimmel and The Daily Show in the closely-watched race for Outstanding Talk Series.
Jimmy Kimmel picked up some hardware himself Sunday night, winning Outstanding Host for a Game Show for Who Wants to Be a Millionaire.
And former late-night host Conan O’Brien had a big night. His travel series Conan O’Brien Must Go took Outstanding Hosted Nonfiction Series or Special, while Conan O’Brien: The Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize for American Humor won Outstanding Variety Special (Pre-Recorded).
Edited highlights from the Creative Arts Emmys will air on FXX Saturday, September 13, at 8 p.m. ET/PT, and will be available for streaming the next day on Hulu. The 77th Primetime Emmy Awards follow on Sunday, September 14, airing live on CBS
