It may not have felt exactly like the 2020 Emmys, when the made-in-Canada comedy “Schitt’s Creek” cleaned up and left no crumbs, but it still felt pretty damn good to watch the 77th Primetime Emmy Awards as a Canadian on Sunday evening.
“The Studio,” the riotous new series cocreated by Canadians Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, won a slew of major comedy awards at the ceremony, which also featured fellow Canucks Catherine O’Hara, Martin Short and Nathan Fielder.
The award show, hosted by the American standup comedian Nate Bargatze, was filled with upsets, in many significant categories. The medical procedural “The Pitt,” created by Canadian-American R. Scott Gemmill, bested Apple TV’s “Severance” to win five awards overall. (That total includes the awards won last weekend at the Creat