I will be honest and say that, of all the trophies that are out there, I was so desirous of this one for this cast, just so I could share this moment right now with them. I've never been more proud of a group of people in my life. This is the hardest working group of people who answered a call for a kind of buy-in, immersive, total, you know, experience. And it's been challenging and difficult and rewarding in ways that I couldn't possibly fathom. But I look at your faces and every second of it, I wouldn't change one thing. Does anybody else want to say anything? I don't know. Oh my God, we're so grateful for this. I can't even talk. And to the fellow nominees, the work is so exceptional. The work is so exceptional that this is really humbling and really exciting. Thank you very, very much.
Oh my gosh! Thank you. Thank you. Dang it, this is... Thank you very much. I thought for sure, no. Okay. Thank you so much. This is such an honor. And to be voted by the peers, it's just incredible. And I have to say, this show is so wonderful because of Deborah Kahn, who writes our show. Thank you. Any one of you would be so lucky to be on this show. Her writing is so good. And Rufus, who is with me, is... You are so good in this show, as is every single actor on this show. We always say, Rufus and I always say, every single one of you could have your own show, and their character could be a full show. You are all so good. And I'm just grateful. Thank you very much, and happy St. David's Day to my Welsh guy. Thank you very much.
Wow. Thank you. Somebody had told me that you had to say seven words to get a SAG card. And in 1990, I got one line in a television miniseries called Blind Faith with Robert Urich and Joanna Kearns. One line, five words. And I spent all morning in my four-banger scheming on how to stretch that out so I could get my card, and I improvised, excuse me, what's going on down there. And then I found out it didn't matter. Uh, but what did matter was getting that card. This card, which I've had in my wallet for the last 36 years. I love being an actor. I love actors. Working with you, playing with you, and, when necessary, marching alongside of you has been the greatest joy of my life. I'm so grateful to this union and for all the protections and privileges that it affords me, and I don't take it for granted and I don't forget the hard-won fights and battles by giants who fought before us on whose shoulders I and we all stand. Yeah. I'm so grateful for this. I'm so grateful to the membership of SAG-AFTRA, to the membership of all of our sibling unions, especially our cast and crew, and to labor unions everywhere. Thank you so much. Thank you so much.
Thank you. I'm back. This is such an honor. I really... This show would not be... possible to even produce were it not for the amazing talents of the ensemble of actors that I work with every day. We shoot every scene in one take. There's no coverage there's no singles, there's no close-ups, there's no masters, there's no insert shots. Every scene in the show is one continuous take, and so, if if anyone messes up anything, you're potentially messing up a great performance by one of your fellow actors. If you improvise something great and someone laughs, then you've ruined that. It can be— it's a real team effort to a degree that, uh, probably nothing I've ever made in my entire life has been, and that's what I wanted. And, and when I put the cast together, I was really looking for people I was excited to perform with every day and who I knew would be able to carry the weight of this very difficult way to shoot. So Catherine, Chase, Ike, and O'Hara, this show wouldn't be makeable without all of you guys. And I love working with you all day, every day. And I look forward to being with you guys tomorrow, bright and early. So thank you again. This is a real honor. Thank you all very much.
I was asked to assume the very sad honor of accepting this award on O'Hara's behalf. Um, I know she would have been honored to receive this award from her fellow performers, who I know she respected so much. She was such big fans of all of yours. Um, I obviously, you know, have been reflecting on the time I was fortunate enough to spend with her and working with her. And something that I've just been marveling at over the last few weeks was really her ability to be generous and kind and gracious while never ever minimizing her own talents, and her own ability to contribute to the work that we were doing. She knew she could destroy and she wanted to destroy every day on set, and I, I haven't, I mean, I haven't-
Don't tell this to the other actors because I didn't want them to get ideas, but pretty much every evening before she had a shooting day on our show, she would email uh me and Evan, an email that always was pretty similar and it said, 'Hello, I hope you'll consider the following and then there would be a completely rewritten version of the scene. She was it. Uh, and literally 100 of the time it made not just her character better, but it made the scene better and the entire show better as a whole. She really showed that you can be a genius and be kind, and one of those things does not have to come at the expense of the other in any way, shape or form. So I guess I'll just leave you with this: if you have people in your lives that don't know her work, if there are kids in your lives, or just people who are out of touch or stupid or something, show them O'Hara dancing to Harry Belafonte in Beetlejuice. Show them O'Hara hurting her knee in Best in Show and doing that amazing thing where she hobbles around and tell the people as they are laughing that that's Catherine O'Hara. And we were lucky that we got to live in a world where she so generously shared her talents with us. Thank you.
Thank you. Hello. Wow. What an honor. What an award. This is a great award show. I don't think this is, they got food and drinks and shit. This is incredible. It's not 100 million degrees in here. It's wonderful. You were able to pay your own employees enough to keep the award show from being cancelled. Take notes, WGA. A true honor to be here. I honestly, I hoped my ego was strong enough to withstand losing to Ike. I'm glad I don't have to find out. Thank you. I would have been meaner to you at work, no matter what. It would have created a weird dynamic on set. I can admit that. It's truly, I always honestly kind of consider myself more of a writer who is able to write myself. roles that I then kind of forced. people to allow me to perform in, but this. actually makes me feel like an actor for this evening, so I really appreciate it. Thank you all. Have a good night.
Outstanding Performance by a
Male Actor in a Comedy Series
Cast of MARTIN SHORT
ONLY MURDERS IN THE BUILDING
Transcript of MARTIN SHORT
ONLY MURDERS IN THE BUILDING
I don't know. Oh, wow. Thank you so much. This is such a surprise. Um, I... I've been doing this since I was very young, and I thought that when you played somebody's kid, it meant that you were actually their family. So I was always really bereft at the end of a job to say goodbye to Mommy and Daddy and never hear from them again. I'm- But to Jenny, to Rob, to Jay, to David, to Esco, to Sissy: I will let nothing of you go ever. And to the geniuses of the flying penises, Kim, Liz, Shannon, I love you guys. To FX and 20th for giving me a forever home. And to the real life Nikki and Molly, this is for you, this is about you. And to the Nikki, to my Molly, Busy, I love you. Thank you.
