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Look, award shows can get really boring \u2014\u00a0it\u2019s rare that audiences get a true thrill like the Slap<\/a>, or La La Land being called over Moonlight<\/a>, or \u201cAdele Dazeem<\/a>.\u201d Lucky for us, Betty Gilpin, who won her first Emmy for Widow\u2019s Bay<\/a>, knows how to entertain. In her acceptance speech, or rather poem, she thanked her team and co-stars and praised the actors who make the entertainment industry amazing, and she even took a bold swipe at OpenAI\u2019s Sam Altman. It was both enjoyable and impressive as a piece of writing. Gilpin, who had been nominated three times previously for GLOW and recently starred in Oh, Mary! on Broadway<\/a>, can really rhyme. We jotted down for the full speech in all its glory:<\/p>\n \u201cIf by some fluke you win \/ A poem might give it a less boring spin. <\/p>\n If you lose, whisper it drunk to your date, Allie Brie<\/a> \/ Whose toned shoulders we stand on for her work in TV.<\/p>\n Thank you, Widow\u2019s Bay residents, Dippold, Murai \/ To Hamish and Apple, our director, Ti.<\/p>\n To my reps Sean, Jenny, Andrea, Dara, and Tony \/ Is it weird I say love you when we hang up the phone-y? (Sorry)<\/p>\n Rhyming\u2019s a vulnerability cloak \/ What we do means so much to me. That part\u2019s not a joke <\/p>\n Look, my family has nurses, a priest, and a teacher \/ I\u2019m a spray-tanned, narcissistic, society leecher.<\/p>\n But I want to thank all of the actors I\u2019ve met \/ Old ladies in dressing rooms, hot guys on sets.<\/p>\n What a privilege to spend this life laughing at crafty \/ Watching Shakespeare in theaters, half-full and drafty.<\/p>\n Our business is stupid, but actors are the bomb \/ From Martindale to Milioti, my dad and my mom.<\/p>\n To be cringe and elitist, which you\u2019re free to find fault in \/ Let\u2019s all lean toward Sam Shepard<\/a> and less toward Sam Altman.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n It was a tightly planned, cleanly delivered speech that was simultaneously funny, poignant, and emotional. The speech was so good, in fact, that the only lesson that award-show producers should be taking from it is to just give Betty Gilpin time at every award show to give a speech. So she wasn\u2019t nominated? Who cares? The speech will still probably be better than most of the actual winners\u2019. Let her rhyme.<\/p>\n Sign up for the Vulture Daily<\/p>\n An entertainment newsletter for the pop-culture obsessed.<\/p>\n Vox Media, LLC Terms and Privacy Notice<\/p>\n\n