Team Experience: Collective Emmy Ballot, Comedy
Wednesday, June 24, 2015 at 8:24PM
NATHANIEL R in Emmy, FYC, Jane the Virgin, Jeffrey Tambor, Looking, Team Experience, Team Experience Awards, The Comeback, Transparent, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, comedy

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See Part 1 for Drama
Here's Part 2 of 2... COMEDY!

Eleven members of our team, those most excited by television, turned in full Emmy ballots. So here is what we communally hope for when the real Emmy nominations are announced. Nomination ballots are due tomorrow, June 26th so if you happen to be an Emmy voter, check out our FYC series (shameless plug).  The Emmy nominations will be announced on July 16th though who knows why it takes them over three weeks to tally the results. Slackers. 

Comedy Series and acting races after the jump...


OUTSTANDING COMEDY SERIES

Nineteen different series received votes in this category with Veep amassing the most overall support. No tiebreaker was needed as these 7 received the most votes. Looking and Togetherness which are both in the grey zone of "are they drama or comedy?" are comedies according to Emmy (thanks to their 1/2 hour length) and that's what we go by. They were your two near miss "honorable mentions" in this category. There were zero votes for actual Emmy darlings Big Bang Theory & Modern Family and almost none for the well regarded Silicon Valley the latter of which did surprise me. 

OUTSTANDING LEAD ACTRESS IN A COMEDY 

Even our tiebreaking round resulted in a tie here so it's a seven wide category. Just behind this hilarious group of seven was Amy Schumer (Inside Amy Schumer). Meanwhile I will have to have WORDS with Team Experience about Younger and Getting On. Apparently they're not watching because how else to explain Getting On getting so few votes in any of the acting categories and how else to explain Sutton Foster's measly two votes. She is absolutely adorable and funny and heartbreaking on Younger (as she was previously in the also awards-shunned Bunheads.)

OUTSTANDING LEAD ACTOR IN A COMEDY

Anthony Anderson was a near miss here for Black-ish. The big news though is this: All hail Jeffrey Tambor from Transparent. He's the only actor or show  in any of the 10 categories we polled to land on every single ballot. Does this inarguable consensus on the quality of his work mean he's a mortal lock for an Emmy nomination or the frontrunner for the win or both?

OUTSTANDING SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A COMEDY 

There was a four way tie for the sixth slot here which June Diane Raphael from Grace & Frankie won with an extremely narrow margin. She is a bitchy delight on that show, though, from a supporting cast that doesn't always otherwise work. you must agree. The runners up, all with a lot of support, were:  Melanie Lynskey (Togetherness), Stephanie Beatriz (Brooklyn Nine-Nine), and Carol Kane (Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt).

 

OUTSTANDING SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A COMEDY

Another tiebreaker round of voting couldn't get the category down to just six nominees, so it's our second comedy category with one extra nominee. The closest "almost ran" here was Hugh Laurie for Veep.  But Veep was very well represented all told so don't feel too bad for him. 

I hope these imaginary nominations were fun for you to ponder. Or perhaps it made you angry. If so, weep not, I'm sure the Emmys will give you all the Modern Family your heart longs for! 

You can see our full ballots here if you're interested!

Also:  Our "About" page is finally complete so you can put faces and identities to posts if you're curious about Team Experience. You'll be most familiar with the "weekly contributors" but beyond that is all the people you read from time to time  whenever we do these special projects or themes or top tens or years of the month or who hop in and out. 

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