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Outstanding Performance by a Lead Actor in a Comedy Series Primetime Emmy Award winners

  • Jason SudeikisJason Sudeikis was born Daniel Jason Sudeikis on the 18th of September 1975, and his surname is pronounced suu-DAY-kiss. He was born with anosmia, which means he has no sense of smell. Comedy depends on noticing the details of a room, and…
  • Alec BaldwinAlec Baldwin has hosted Saturday Night Live more often than anyone else in the show's history. As of 2017 he had done it 17 times, and the first came in 1990. Born Alexander Rae Baldwin III on the 3rd of April 1958, he has worked as a film…
  • Seth RogenSeth Rogen was 13 when he co-wrote a rough draft of Superbad with his childhood friend Evan Goldberg. The two had met in bar mitzvah classes. They spent the rest of high school polishing that script. Rogen grew up to be a Canadian actor,…
  • Ted DansonTed Danson, born Edward Bridge Danson III, was at the center of a television event on the 20th of May 1993. That evening, 80 million people watched the final episode of Cheers, the second-most watched series finale in television history at…
  • Donald GloverDonald Glover was voted most likely to write for The Simpsons. At 23 he landed a writing job on 30 Rock instead.
  • Dick Van DykeDick Van Dyke walked onto the stage of The Masked Singer in 2023 disguised as a character called Gnome, and he was the first contestant eliminated. The show had promoted his unmasking as "the most legendary, decorated and beloved unmasking…
  • Burt ReynoldsBurt Reynolds, the American actor famous across the 1970s and 1980s, built a career on joking about himself. He called himself America's most "well-known unknown". He said his movies were the kind "they show in airplanes or prisons or…
  • Kelsey GrammerKelsey Grammer was meant to play Frasier Crane for only six episodes. He kept the role for 20 years across two shows.
  • Michael J. FoxMichael J. Fox once worked two months of days that began with rehearsals at 10 a.m. and ended with filming at 2:30 the next morning. Those were the hours of 1985. By day he rehearsed the sitcom Family Ties. By night he rushed to the set of…
  • Jeremy Allen WhiteJeremy Allen White received his high school diploma at the age of 34. As a teenager he skipped so many afternoon classes at his Manhattan performing arts school that he never collected enough credits to graduate. The diploma arrived long…

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