1. Celebrities — they're just like us! They, too, can't help but crack up at Mariska Hargitay's jokes, like Quinta Brunson here:
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2. Jean Smart made history as the first woman to win a Comedy Best Actress Emmy for every season of her show, Hacks, and covered up her teary moment in the most Deborah Vance way possible:
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3. Mariska broke into song about the shows in their final seasons this Emmys, and Ayo Edebiri couldn't quite hide that she was not into it:
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4. Mariska made a Stranger Things joke, and Selena Gomez was confused and just a lil horrified:
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5. Allison Janney was seemingly NOT expecting to take home the Supporting Actress Emmy for her work in The Diplomat, I fear:
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6. Matthew Rhys took home his first Emmy of the night for The Beast In Me, and his costar Claire Danes might've been more excited than he was:
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7. No, you're not having deja vu — Matthew Rhys made history by taking home a SECOND lead acting Emmy, and his wife, Keri Russell, was adorably excited:
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8. ...and Martin Short, who was also nominated in the category, had a...different reaction:
10. John Mulaney did have part of this bit bleeped out on air, but boy did he get the crowd going IRL:
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11. Zendaya was hitting every emote imaginable when SNL's Marcello Hernández gassed her up in front of everyone:
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12. Meanwhile, John Mulaney was...less enthused with Marcello's jokes:
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13. Sarah Michelle Gellar made a not-so-subtle nod to the Buffy the Vampire Slayer reboot being canceled, and the crowd, including Michelle Pfeiffer, wasn't quite sure how to react:
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14. And finally: the "Is The Bear a comedy?" debate has been ongoing since the show's first season, and Abbott Elementary's Sheryl Lee Ralph reacted to Abbott's Outstanding Comedy Series competition very candidly in a red carpet interview: