{"id":575553,"date":"2026-07-08T18:45:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T18:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/575553\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T18:45:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T18:45:12","slug":"hacks-sets-record-for-most-comedy-emmy-nominations-in-a-single-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/575553\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Hacks&#8217; Sets Record for Most Comedy Emmy Nominations in a Single Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/hacks\/\" id=\"auto-tag_hacks_1\" data-tag=\"hacks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hacks<\/a> is going out in a big way, landing the most <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/emmy-nominations\/\" id=\"auto-tag_emmy-nominations_1\" data-tag=\"emmy-nominations\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Emmy nominations<\/a> in a single year in the comedy category for its final season. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe HBO Max comedy landed 24 nods when the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/tv\/tv-news\/emmy-nominations-unveiled-1236641054\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">nominations were announced<\/a> on Wednesday morning, besting the record previously held in 2025 by\u00a0The Studio\u00a0and in 2024 by\u00a0The Bear (which each had 23 nominations). It has also surpassed Schitt\u2019s Creek record for most nominations for a comedy series\u2019 last season, which landed 15 noms in 2020 for its final run. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tRecognition for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/tv\/tv-reviews\/hacks-review-season-5-jean-smart-hannah-einbinder-hbo-max-1236556526\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hacks\u2018 fifth and final season<\/a> includes noms for best comedy series, best actress for Jean Smart, best supporting actress for Hannah Einbinder and Megan Stalter and best supporting actor for Paul W. Downs. The show was also nominated for writing and directing, along with Leslie Bibb, Laurie Metcalf, Kaitlin Olson, Christopher McDonald,\u00a0Lauren Weedman and Cherry Jones all being recognized as guest performers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThis brings Hacks\u2018 lifetime Emmy total to 86 nominations and 12 wins, including four past wins for Smart, one for Einbinder and a best comedy series win in 2024. The series, which followed the endless hijinks of legendary comedian Deborah Vance and comedy writer Ava Daniels, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/tv\/tv-features\/hacks-series-finale-jean-smart-hanna-einbinder-1236608749\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">came to an end<\/a> in May. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tOther leaders in this year\u2019s nominations include The Pitt \u2014 this year\u2019s most-nominated show overall as well as topper of the drama category with 25 nods \u2014 Widow\u2019s Bay (with 19), Pluribus (with 18) and Beef (with 16). <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe 78th\u00a0Emmy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/awards\/\" id=\"auto-tag_awards_1\" data-tag=\"awards\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Awards<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/tv\/tv-news\/mariska-hargitay-host-2026-emmys-1236640005\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">hosted by Mariska Hargitay<\/a>, will air Monday, Sept. 14 from the Peacock Theater in downtown Los Angeles, live on NBC and streaming on Peacock.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hacks is going out in a big way, landing the most Emmy nominations in a single year in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":575554,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[265],"tags":[4648,18,6135,245140,245141,7612,221362,117,3168,19,17,128],"class_list":["post-575553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-awards","tag-eire","tag-emmy-awards","tag-emmy-nominations","tag-emmy-nominations-2026","tag-emmys","tag-emmys-2026","tag-entertainment","tag-hacks","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-tv"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116885843348685130","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=575553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575553\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/575554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}