SNL scoops five awards

Melissa McCarthy has won an Emmy award for mocking former White House press secretary Sean Spicer.

The award for best guest actress in a comedy series was one of five picked up by  Saturday Night Live last night.

Chappelle won the equivalent actor award for his week hosting the NBC show, while the comedy institution also won awards for production design, make-up and camerawork. 

McCarthy’s portrayal is said to have angered Donald Trump, for making his one-time spokesman look weak, and Spicer himself complained that SNL  had ‘gone from being funny to just bad. Those aren’t jokes. They’re inappropriate’.

Neither McCarthy nor Chappelle showed up to collect their Emmys.

Veep also had a good night: winning accolades for casting, production design and cinematography

A total of 92 categories were awarded in the 'creative arts' section of the award over Saturday and Sunday night, with James Corden, Trevor Noah and John Oliver among the winners in the first half of the ceremony.

The more high-profile primetime categories will be awarded on September 17  in an event broadcast live on US TV.

Published: 11 Sep 2017