“Widow’s Bay” guest star Betty Gilpin accepted her Emmy win for outstanding guest actress in a comedy by reading a poem she had written in jest — and very much in the unique style of the show. But it was one line that especially got the TV Academy audience at the Peacock Theatre to cheer: “Let’s all lean toward Sam Shepard and less toward Sam Altman.”
\n\nGilpin won for playing Sarah Westcott Warren, the long-suffering wife of town founder Richard Warren in the “Widow’s Bay” flashback episode “Our History.”
\n\nHere’s her acceptance speech, in poem:
\n\n“If by some fluke you win, a poem might give it a less boring spin. If you lose, whisper it drunk to your date, Allie Brie, whose toned shoulders we stand on for her work in TV. / Thank you, ‘Widows Bay’ residents, [Katie] Dippold, [Hiro] Murai, to Hamish and Apple, our director Ti [West] / To my reps Sean, Jenny, Andrea, Dara and Tony. Is it weird I say love you when we hang up the phony? (Sorry) /
\n\n“Rhymings of vulnerability cloak. What we do means so much to me. That part’s not a joke / Look, my family has nurses, a priest…
Original source: https://variety.com/v/tv/