>Well, friends, I won an Emmy art trophy last night for my guest star role HBO’s gorgeous rendition of a Craig Mazin script. I am very grateful for this plaudit but it’s also hard to fully swallow since my work was in a full partnership with the magnificent Murray Bartlett. I prepared some remarks that I was able to mostly deliver, with a couple of flubs due to my emotions running high, so I thought I’d publish my speech which they generously let me finish. Thanks again to all the strawberry fans. ♥️🍄🍓
Emmy Speech:
>Fortune presents gifts not according to the book. Thank you to the Academy for this pat on the back, and for even counting me among my fellow nominees, especially my magnificently generous partner and rightly lauded Aussie top man – the Girth from Perth – Murray Bartlett, without whom it would have been awfuly tough to pull off a beautifully, richly-veined 2-hander. Thank you to HBO and Carolyn Strauss for continuing to produce wildly entertaining programs like this that arc towards decency and inclusivity.
>To Neil Druckmann for thinking it up, Peter Hoar for conducting, Eben Bolter for shooting it and Timonthy Good for cutting it together. Connie Parker, Joanna Mireau, Chris Glimsdale, Greg Auch, and Cynthia Anne Summer for mollycoddling me on set and creating my sexy-ursine-prepper look, and the rest of the astonishing band of artist on the Last of Us, too many to name (pedro), who crafted this episode with such exquisite care, but goddammit, folks, we would all just be standing around with out thumbs in our asses, if Craig Mazin had not written this script. This was the best script I’ve ever been handed. If you enjoy what we do, then it’s always and only because the writing is so good and I’m so grateful to be able to participate in this tradition of “storytelling as medicine”, with which we demonstrate our devotion to each other, because as Wendell Berry says, it all turns on affection.
>Speaking of, Megan Mullally is not only my bride and legal property, she is my muse and my acting teacher and I would certainly not be standing here without her patient tutelage and that is not a euphemism.
>Thank you to Jo, Josh, Jay and Matt at UTA, plus Peter Sample. Harumi, Albena, & Max. Thank you powerfully to Mother Nature and Linda Ronstadt, each for their particular strawberries, and finally my own Mom and Dad, who taught me to use tools in the kitchen and the garden and the woodshop as an expression of love and fidelity, by way of what we do to care for each other, which we have learned once again from Craig Mazin this episode, is the whole dame point. Thank you.
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he was in the worst part of the show, nice
Offerman:
>Well, friends, I won an Emmy art trophy last night for my guest star role HBO’s gorgeous rendition of a Craig Mazin script. I am very grateful for this plaudit but it’s also hard to fully swallow since my work was in a full partnership with the magnificent Murray Bartlett. I prepared some remarks that I was able to mostly deliver, with a couple of flubs due to my emotions running high, so I thought I’d publish my speech which they generously let me finish. Thanks again to all the strawberry fans. ♥️🍄🍓
Emmy Speech:
>Fortune presents gifts not according to the book. Thank you to the Academy for this pat on the back, and for even counting me among my fellow nominees, especially my magnificently generous partner and rightly lauded Aussie top man – the Girth from Perth – Murray Bartlett, without whom it would have been awfuly tough to pull off a beautifully, richly-veined 2-hander. Thank you to HBO and Carolyn Strauss for continuing to produce wildly entertaining programs like this that arc towards decency and inclusivity.
>To Neil Druckmann for thinking it up, Peter Hoar for conducting, Eben Bolter for shooting it and Timonthy Good for cutting it together. Connie Parker, Joanna Mireau, Chris Glimsdale, Greg Auch, and Cynthia Anne Summer for mollycoddling me on set and creating my sexy-ursine-prepper look, and the rest of the astonishing band of artist on the Last of Us, too many to name (pedro), who crafted this episode with such exquisite care, but goddammit, folks, we would all just be standing around with out thumbs in our asses, if Craig Mazin had not written this script. This was the best script I’ve ever been handed. If you enjoy what we do, then it’s always and only because the writing is so good and I’m so grateful to be able to participate in this tradition of “storytelling as medicine”, with which we demonstrate our devotion to each other, because as Wendell Berry says, it all turns on affection.
>Speaking of, Megan Mullally is not only my bride and legal property, she is my muse and my acting teacher and I would certainly not be standing here without her patient tutelage and that is not a euphemism.
>Thank you to Jo, Josh, Jay and Matt at UTA, plus Peter Sample. Harumi, Albena, & Max. Thank you powerfully to Mother Nature and Linda Ronstadt, each for their particular strawberries, and finally my own Mom and Dad, who taught me to use tools in the kitchen and the garden and the woodshop as an expression of love and fidelity, by way of what we do to care for each other, which we have learned once again from Craig Mazin this episode, is the whole dame point. Thank you.