Lena Waithe and Aziz Ansari won the Emmy for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series Sunday night for “Thanksgiving,” an episode from the second season of Netflix’s Master of None.
The episode was one of the most talked-about pieces of comedy this year. Praised for its empathy and attention to detail, the episode followed Waithe’s character Denise and Ansari’s character Dev over a decade of Thanksgiving dinners with Denise’s mother (Angela Bassett). The holiday was used to mark major milestones in a relationship strained by Denise’s identification as gay and her mother’s regressive attitudes.
Accepting the award, Waithe received a standing ovation before thanking Netflix, her mother for inspiring the episode, Ansari for pushing her to...
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