Jeremy Allen White Wins Outstanding Actor in a Comedy Series at the 2024 Emmys: 'This Show Has Changed My Life'

D’Pharaoh Woon-a-Tai, Jeremy Allen White, Larry David, Matt Berry, Martin Short, and Steve Martin were also up for the honor at the 76th annual Emmy Awards

Jeremy Allen White is a winner again!

For the second year in a row, The Bear star was named the outstanding actor in a comedy series at the 2024 Emmy Awards on Sunday, Sept. 15.

"Thank you, thank you, thank you, so much," White — who plays Carmen "Carmy" Berzatto in the hit Hulu series — said, when taking the stage. "My heart is just beating outside of its chest."

He went on to thank his Bear costars, telling them, "I want us to be in each other's lives forever."

"This show has changed my life," said White. "It has installed a faith that change is possible, that change is possible if you're able to reach out, you're really truly never alone. I thank this show."

Part of The Bear's ongoing success has been credited to the cast's chemistry. White, 33, discussed the bond he has built with his costar, Ayo Edebiri, in a June 2024 interview with Vanity Fair.

“We really enjoy each other in life, on camera and off camera,” White said of the actress. “I hope that sort of that kind of thing shines through on camera between Carm and Syd.”

White added, “Syd is always able to...I don’t know, to deliver something different to Carmy, and she’s usually right. And I guess I think Ayo is also usually right."

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Elsewhere in his speech on Sunday, White thanked his fellow nominees, which included Only Murders in the Building costars Martin Short and Steve Martin as well as D’Pharaoh Woon-a-Tai from Reservation Dogs, Larry David from Curb Your Enthusiasm and Matt Berry from What We Do in the Shadows.

"I'm so honored to be in your company," he said.

Woon-a-Tai, 22, scored his first Emmy nomination for his role in Reservation Dogs.

The actor opened up to The Hollywood Reporter about finding a connection with his character Bear on the FX/Hulu series, which follows a group of Indigenous teens in Oklahoma who want to make their way to California — and decide they'll do anything to get the money, even if they have to steal it.

“I related to Bear right off the bat, and I see a lot of similarities within myself, within my cousins and my nephews, and with family and friends,” he shared in August. “There are definitely a lot of Bears in the world and in what we call Indian Country, just like there are Willie Jacks everywhere or Elora Danans or Cheeses everywhere. So I felt like I was really rolling with that Bear as well, and to see his arc was very beautiful.”

“We’re two different people — I grew up in Canada, in a big city, not a reservation community in Oklahoma,” he continued. “So that’s very different, but in the writers telling their stories, they told my story as well.”

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David, 77, is saying goodbye to Curb Your Enthusiasm following 12 seasons spanning 24 years. Over the course of its run, the hit series — which aired its series finale in April — has picked up 55 Emmy nominations and six Golden Globe nods.

During an interview with Sunday Today with Willie Geist, David opened up about closing this chapter after more than decades.

When Geist asked if there was “any shred of sentimentality” that comes with saying goodbye, David replied, “Maybe a shred, the slightest shred.”

“I’m too old to be on camera every week now, to act the way I do on the show,” he continued. “How can I continue to act like that? It’s insane! I could do it in my 50s and 60s and mid-70s. I’m not going into the 80s acting like that!”

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Berry became a first-time Emmy nominee when he received a nomination for his role in What We Do in the Shadows.

The 50-year-old actor revealed what initially drew him to the role of Laszlo on the FX series, which follows the everyday lives of four vampires in Staten Island, New York, who struggle to fit in with the human world — with many snafus along the way.

“He’s 300 years old, something like that. He’s an aristocrat who was bitten by an attractive young Greek vampire and he never looked back after that,” he told Deadline in August. “He just carried on with a fairly hedonistic lifestyle from that moment on, doing all the things he’d wished he could do before he was bitten and became a vampire, basically.”

“That would attract any actor, I think. I mean, because all these characters are dead — or undead, whichever you choose — they can say and do anything,” he continued. “That’s what attracts me to it. We don’t have to be cautious, because these people don’t exist, and while they may be based within our times, they’re not from our times. So that gives them credit to do and say whatever they like — within reason. And as a result, he’s always been very free to play.”

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Short, 74, stars as Oliver Putnam in Only Murders in the Building.

The actor told PEOPLE in May that it is a joy to work with costars Martin and Selena Gomez on the hit Hulu series, which premiered its fourth season on Aug. 27.

"It's a very, very, very loose, fun-filled set. I think everyone has the same review — that, working on the show, it's really fun and loose, and that's kind of the philosophy of Steve, the way he's always worked, and so is Selena," Short said. "So everyone works in joy and happiness, because we're lucky people."

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Martin, 79, brings comedy gold to Only Murders in the Building alongside costars Selena Gomez and Short.

The actor opened up to Variety in 2022 about developing the characters he and Martin play, joking, “They would have time older, a lot of you are idle, but that have time to solve a murder, but also lazy enough that they didn’t want to go downtown.”

“I’m very happy with my character not growing,” he added at the time. “They always say, ‘What’s the arc of the character? What does he learn?’ Once you get to 75, there’s not a lot left to learn, there’s only more mistakes. So I don’t worry about those things. [It’s about] being true to the character. If Marty Short is true to Oliver, and I’m true to Charles, then we can’t go wrong. They’re real people.”

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