One of this year’s comedy stars has officially been crowned at the 2024 Emmy Awards.

The Bear Star Liza Colón-Zayas won the award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series at the annual ceremony on Sunday, September 15. It was her first Emmy win ever.

“Thank you for putting the microphone down for me,” she joked. “Thank you to my husband David Zayas, he told me to write a speech and I didn’t because I didn’t think it was possible. How did I think it would be possible to be in the presence of Meryl Streep and Carol Burnett and Janelle and Sheryl Lee Ralph. I love you all, I adore you to the bottom of my heart. My mamí, mamí, thank you. My family, my grandchildren, thank you.”

“Thank you for giving me a new life with this show. And to all the Latinas watching me, keep the faith and vote. Vote for your rights,” she concluded.

Colón-Zayas is one of The Bear‘s a whopping 23 nominations. The show is also nominated for best comedy series, best supporting actor in a comedy for Ebon Moss-Bachrach and Lionel Boyce, best actress in a comedy for Ayo Edebiri and best actor in a comedy for Jeremy Allen White.

In the hit FX series about a Chicago restaurant and its eclectic kitchen staff, Colón-Zayas, 52, plays Tina Marrero, who steadily rises in the kitchen of chef Carmy Van White.

This was her very first Emmy nomination and she said Variety that it validated her decades-long career. “To have the world day, ‘We see you,’ and I dare say, ‘Here are my peers.’ Carol Burnett raised me. Meryl Streep is a queen. Sheryl Lee Ralph is a queen. To be in that company with those women is unimaginable.”

In addition to Colón-Zayas, the group of nominees consisted of two Abbott Elementary School stars, Janelle James and Sheryl Lee Ralph, along with Palm Royale’with Carol Burnett, Tricks star Hannah Einbinder and Meryl Streep for Only murders in the building.

Burnett’s nomination in the category marks her 26th Emmy nomination. She last won an Emmy at last year’s ceremony for Outstanding Variety Special for her birthday special, Carol Burnett: 90 Years of Laughter and Love.

In Palm Royale, The legendary actress played the wealthy community leader, Noma, who was unconscious for much of the series, but Burnett, 91, told PEOPLE it was “a lot of fun” to “talk some trash” for the role. She also shared her hopes for the show’s second season, which has now been greenlit.

“Now there’s a whole new mystery about who (Noma) really is,” Burnett said of the big reveal in the Season 1 finale: that Noma murdered her own roommate years ago and stole her identity.

The show received 11 nominations, including Best Comedy Series and Best Lead Actress in a Comedy Series for Kristen Wiig.

Einbinder is one of the five Tricks cast members earn a nomination for the HBO comedy’s acclaimed third season.

The show earned 16 nominations this year, and has a total of 48 across its three seasons. Paul W. Downs was recognized for his role as Jimmy Lusaque Jr. for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series, Jean Smart was nominated for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series, and Christopher Lloyd and Kaitlin Olson were nominated for Outstanding Guest Actor and Outstanding Actress in a Comedy, respectively. Tricks was also nominated for Best Comedy Series and Best Comedy Screenplay.

Both Einbinder, 29, and Smart, 72, have previously been nominated for their roles in the comedy, in which Smart plays legendary comedian Deborah Vance who takes aspiring comedian Ava (Einbinder) under her wing. Smart has won Emmys for the show’s previous two seasons.

James was nominated for her role as Abbott Elementary School‘s hilariously unworldly director Ava Coleman for the past three years.

The show has been a hit at the awards show since its premiere in 2021, earning Sheryl Lee Ralph a win in 2022. Ralph made history by winning for only the second time a Black woman won in the category. He also received seven nominations for the first season, which creator Quinta Brunson told PEOPLE at the time was a “dream.”

The ABC sitcom received a total of five nominations this year, including Best Comedy Series, Best Actress in a Comedy (Brunson), Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy (Tyler James Williams) and another nomination for Ralph in the same category as James.

More than a year after joining Only murders in the building As Broadway star Loretta Durkin — the love interest of Martin Short’s Oliver Putnam — Streep, 75, has earned her first Emmy nomination for the Hulu series. The nod marks her sixth nomination ever, her first since her 2020 nod for Big little liesfor Streep, who has won three times.

She previously won awards in 2017 for Best Narrator for Netflix’s The price of victoryin 2004 for Best Actress in a Miniseries or Movie for Angels in Americaand her first win came in 1978 for Best Lead Actress in a Limited Series for Holocaust.

Short, 74, previously told PEOPLE that Streep “called him and said, ‘I want to be on the show,'” but it was “coincidental” that she joined as his romantic partner on the series.

“She’s fantastic,” he added of his co-star. “There’s no one who doesn’t adore her.”

Ralph has been nominated for the third year in a row for her role as kindergarten teacher Barbara Howard in Abbott Elementary SchoolShe is joined in this category by James, and the sitcom received three other nominations, including Best Comedy Series.

Ralph, 67, won the award in 2022 after her first nomination and captured the audience’s hearts with her stunning acceptance speech, which included a verse from Diane Reeves’ “Endangered Species.” She later told Jennifer Hudson that she had been “preparing the speech since I was 5 years old.”

“I was ready, you know, ever since Tinker Bell came down from that church tower and started making dreams come true, I practice the speech,” she said, though she admitted, “When they called my name, everything went out of my head. I couldn’t remember absolutely anything.”

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