Eddie Murphy, Maya Rudolph win comedy guest acting Emmys for 'SNL' roles:
Saturday Night LiveMurphy won the Emmy for outstanding guest actor in a comedy series for his hosting turn on the NBC sketch show in December 2019. Maya Rudolph won for outstanding guest actress in a comedy — her second Emmy this year — for playing Sen. Kamala Harris in the same episode.
The Emmy is the first of Murphy's career. He was nominated twice before during his time as a cast member of the show in the early 1980s, along with nods for writing on SNL in 1984 and as a producer ofRudolph, meanwhile, was nominated twice in the guest actress category, also earning a nod for NBC'sthis fall and continue playing Harris, the Democratic nominee for vice president, in the run-up to the election.
Rudolph also won an Emmy earlier this week for her voiceover performance in Netflix's animated seriesin 2020. In the earlier Creative Arts ceremonies, the long-running NBC series won for variety sketch series; production design for a variety, reality or competition series; and directing for a variety series, with Don Roy King earning his fourth consecutive Emmy in the category.
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