Conan O’Brien has clinched a Creative Arts Emmy for his episode on Ireland in his HBO Max travel series, “Conan O’Brien Must Go.” The episode earned an accolade in the Outstanding Writing for a Nonfiction Program segment and follows O’Brien as he digs into his lineage. In the episode, he pays a visit to the Barack Obama plaza in Tipperary and picks up Irish lingo, but also makes a guest appearance in the Irish soap opera Ros Na Rún with the pseudonym ‘Fear na mBalún.’ Viewers get a front-row seat to a typical Irish-American exploring their homeland, including a confounding run-in with black pudding and a rendition of “Danny Boy.” He also goes on a quest for Bono.
A genealogist identifies O’Brien’s lineage as farm labourers, and he tours Galbally in Co Limerick along with the farm where his great-grandfather resided. The bulk of the Emmys at Sunday’s ceremony went to Shōgun, which scooped up 14 for a single television series season. The Creative Arts Emmys celebrate “standout artistic and technical accomplishments in television” and precede the televised Primetime Emmy Awards.
The FX political drama centred on feudal Japan secured almost all of the 16 possible awards, garnering Emmys for costuming, make-up, editing, stunt-work, and cinematography, in addition to best guest actor in a drama for Nestor Carbonell. It surpassed the previous record of 13 set by the 2008 miniseries John Adams even before the Primetime Emmys on the 15th of September, where it could extend its record by another five. The Bear bagged seven awards, with Jamie Lee Curtis earning best guest actress in a comedy series. – PA contributed to this report.