FOUR awards for Phoebe Waller-Bridge's show

Fleabag scooped four Emmy awards last night including best comedy and best comedy actress for creator Phoebe Waller-Bridge.

The latter came as something as a surprise, as Louis Dreyfus has been tipped to win her seventh Emmy for the seventh and last season of Veep.

Waller-Bridge also won the comedy writing Emmy while director Harry Bradbeer scooped his category too.

On the nabbing the writing category Waller-Bridge said: ‘It's really wonderful to know a dirty, pervy, angry messed-up woman can make it to the Emmys.’

On the acting award,  she said: ‘I find acting really hard and really painful. To be nominated with these unbelievable actresses who I’ve looked up to and watched and laughed with, it means so much.’

And collecting the best comedy show award towards the end of the night, she concluded: ‘Well, this is just getting ridiculous. Fleabag started as a one woman show at Edinburgh Festival in 2014. The journey has been absolutely mental to get here.’

Last weekend the BBC sitcom, available on Amazon in the US,  scooped two Creative Arts Emmys, for casting and picture editing.

At the primetime ceremony in Los Angeles last night,Bill Hader won best comedy actor for his title role in Barry as a hitman who gets bitten by the acting bug on job in Los Angeles.

Peep Show co-creator Jesse Armstrong won the Emmy for best writing on a drama series for his HBO/Sky Atlantic show Succession about a Murdoch-style family vying for control of a media empire.

Saturday Night Live won best variety sketch series and  Last Week Tonight With John Oliver took variety talk series, and a writing Emmy.

Tony Shalhoub and Alex Borstein won best comedy supporting actor and actress awards for their roles in Marvelous Mrs Maisel – after performers in the series won two guest actor Emmys last week: Luke Kirby for playing groundbreaking comedian Lenny Bruce and Jane Lynch as the fictional comic Sophie Lennon.

Here is the full interview Phoebe Waller-Bridge gave to journalists backstage last night:

Published: 23 Sep 2019