{"id":147046,"date":"2020-09-20T20:21:38","date_gmt":"2020-09-21T00:21:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/?p=147046"},"modified":"2020-10-06T12:30:05","modified_gmt":"2020-10-06T16:30:05","slug":"eddie-murphy-wins-first-emmy-for-guest-actor-comedy-series-category-for-hosting-on-snl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/eddie-murphy-wins-first-emmy-for-guest-actor-comedy-series-category-for-hosting-on-snl\/","title":{"rendered":"Eddie Murphy Wins First Emmy for Guest Actor Comedy Series Category For Hosting on \u2018SNL\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Veteran actor and comedian, <strong>Eddie Murphy<\/strong> received his first-ever Primetime Emmy for&nbsp;<em>Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series<\/em> for his hosting gig on <strong>Saturday Night Live<\/strong>. He was up against&nbsp;Adam Driver (<em>SNL<\/em>),&nbsp;Luke Kirby (<em>The Marvelous Mrs.&nbsp;Maisel<\/em>),&nbsp;Dev&nbsp;Patel (<em>Modern Love<\/em>),&nbsp;Brad Pitt (<em>SNL<\/em>), and&nbsp;Fred Willard (<em>Modern Family<\/em>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While Murphy\u2019s acceptance speech wasn\u2019t aired, it was shared via the Television Academy\u2019s Twitter feed\u2014 \u201cThank you to everybody at the&nbsp;Emmys. Thank you so much for giving me an Emmy. I don\u2019t have an Emmy. This is 40 years since I started&nbsp;<em>Saturday Night Live,&nbsp;<\/em>this is my first Emmy, so thank you so much. I want to thank Lorne Michaels for putting this whole thing together, and making this happen. And I want to thank, the cast, the writers and the crew at&nbsp;<em>SNL.&nbsp;<\/em>This was a very, very special thing for me to come back and have the show turn out the way it did. I\u2019m still floating from it. And thank you to everybody for giving me an Emmy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Murphy was previously nominated for Emmys for&nbsp;<em>SNL&nbsp;<\/em>in 1983 (Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy, Variety, or Music series), 1984 (Writing in a Variety or Music Program, Outstanding Individual performance in a Variety or Music Program), and in 1999 for&nbsp;<em>The PJs&nbsp;<\/em>(Outstanding Animated Programming, Hour or Less).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Veteran actor and comedian, Eddie Murphy received his first-ever Primetime Emmy for&nbsp;Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series for his hosting gig on Saturday Night Live. He was up against&nbsp;Adam Driver (SNL),&nbsp;Luke Kirby (The Marvelous Mrs.&nbsp;Maisel),&nbsp;Dev&nbsp;Patel (Modern Love),&nbsp;Brad Pitt (SNL), and&nbsp;Fred Willard (Modern Family). While Murphy\u2019s acceptance speech wasn\u2019t aired, it was shared via the [&hellip;] <a class=\"g1-link g1-link-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/eddie-murphy-wins-first-emmy-for-guest-actor-comedy-series-category-for-hosting-on-snl\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":147054,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[145,16,143],"tags":[30596,2071,30117,30098,10336,30486,3806,2394,3608,6305,18408,30603,2793,155],"reaction":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-147046","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-featured","8":"category-news","9":"category-read","10":"tag-72nd-creative-arts-emmys","11":"tag-black-film","12":"tag-black-film-tv","13":"tag-black-film-and-tv","14":"tag-black-talent","15":"tag-black-tv","16":"tag-blackfilm","17":"tag-blackfilm-com","18":"tag-eddie-murphy","19":"tag-emmy-winner","20":"tag-emmys","21":"tag-lorn-michaels","22":"tag-saturday-night-live","23":"tag-snl"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v19.7 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Eddie Murphy Wins First Emmy for Guest Actor Comedy Series Category For Hosting on \u2018SNL\u2019 - blackfilm.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/eddie-murphy-wins-first-emmy-for-guest-actor-comedy-series-category-for-hosting-on-snl\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Eddie Murphy Wins First Emmy for Guest Actor Comedy Series Category For Hosting on \u2018SNL\u2019\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Veteran actor and comedian, Eddie Murphy received his first-ever Primetime Emmy for&nbsp;Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series for his hosting gig on Saturday Night Live. 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