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  • You won the Emmy this year. What was that-

  • What was that like? Tell me, cause I've never won one.

  • You haven't? Well, you should have.

  • It's just. I don't know.

  • Surely you've been nominated.

  • I have been, I'm a perennial bridesmaid.

  • Did you get sucked into the game

  • when you were nominated?

  • As Tom Hanks calls it, the trophy run.

  • This is my favorite. He said that with no irony.

  • He said, "Yeah, I know it's, you know,

  • around the holidays, usually it's kind of

  • involved in the trophy run, so."

  • And I thought, wow, that is the greatest.

  • Ah that's great.

  • The trophy run.

  • And he has been many times.

  • And he has been. And it's like Ty Cobb said,

  • "It ain't bragging if you've done it."

  • And he'd done it many times. What was it like?

  • How, did you think you were going to win?

  • No, I honestly didn't and I felt like

  • I was getting set up because, you know,

  • my agent kept sending me things, you know,

  • pieces that said I was going to win.

  • And, and I thought, Nope, I've seen this.

  • I won't name names, but I've seen this happen

  • to too many people where they're

  • set up, you know? And I kept thinking it

  • for your consideration of the movie.

  • So no by the time,

  • it was going to be announced.

  • I had convinced myself, no, I wasn't going to.

  • And I wanted the show to win.

  • I thought that would be so great for Eugene and Daniel.

  • I really did want the show to win,

  • but I did not honest to God didn't expect it

  • and was so happy to be with everyone.

  • You know, we, I think Daniel talked Eugene

  • into having something. And so it was

  • going to be a barbecue in Eugene's backyard.

  • Then there was the whole COVID thing.

  • And then they had, I think 50 people invited

  • two days before and they moved it

  • to where we were Castle Loma in Toronto.

  • It was kind of an event place as old castle.

  • And then two days before the Emmys

  • or before the party, the Ontario premier changed the law

  • so that it was maximum 25 people outdoors,

  • maximum 10 indoors. They had to un invite or disinvite

  • half the people. And there were

  • all people who'd been nominated for the show.

  • And of course everybody we wanted to see and be with.

  • So that part was sad, but then we got there

  • and then I looked at our world dressed

  • up and we got, I thought, how are we,

  • how do we have stylists for a Zoom thing?

  • What are we doing?

  • Well you could wear. You could be naked

  • from the waist down. Nobody would know.

  • Well, apparently you do find out.

  • That's right.

  • Oh dear. What was he thinking?

  • Yeah. So we got all dressed up.

  • And when I got there, I thought, Oh

  • this looks like we think we're going to win.

  • This is almost too pretty and too fancy and too lovely.

  • And we had this lovely dinner party and they had two

  • producers and a big screen and you could see the other

  • nominees. And, and they said, okay.

  • And we all got tested of course.

  • We're safe to be with each other,

  • but we wore masks. And they said, but if you win,

  • you're going to go up to a microphone. Oh, come on.

  • That looks like we think we're going to win.

  • Can we just stay in our seats if win?

  • And I'm not thinking we're going to. He said,

  • "Well everyone else is going to go to the microphone."

  • Okay. So then I look like I can't walk. Okay.

  • So I have to go if I, if I do, but I won't.

  • Okay. And they say, okay, we're about to start.

  • And your category is the first one up.

  • Just because it makes you feel kind of sickly,

  • but then Jimmy Kimmel and Jennifer Aniston did that

  • ridiculous bit with the fire,

  • burning out the card and not for a second was I thinking,

  • Oh hurry. Get to it. I was just laughing.

  • You know, at their silly bit.

  • She kept, she was so good with the extinguisher.

  • Just yeah. Better go at it again.

  • Yeah. This looks bad.

  • And then he read my name and I have that card now,

  • Jimmy Kimmel sent it to me, so great.

  • Half burned away, but my name is still in there.

  • Yeah. And then, sorry, I've gone on way too long,

  • but, and then Eugene won and then Daniel won for writing.

  • And then it got to Annie and she's sitting beside me.

  • And I said, it was about to announce her category.

  • I said, "Now you have to win. Sorry."

  • "You actually have to win now."

  • Now you have to. And she said to me,

  • "Who do I apologize to first?"

  • It was insane.

You won the Emmy this year. What was that-

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