'I've never won anything in my life': Vancouver's Seth Rogen stunned by record Emmy Awards win
Seth Rogan, Evan Goldberg set comedy record with The Studio
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Vancouver’s Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg scored big at the 77th annual Emmy Awards.
The pair’s hilariously cringey, Hollywood-mocking series The Studio set a new Emmy record for the most wins by a comedy in a single season with 13, including wins for Outstanding Comedy Series, Lead Actor in a Comedy Series for Rogen, Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series, and Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series for Rogen and Goldberg.
“I’m legitimately embarrassed by how happy this makes me,” said Rogen while accepting the best comedy series hardware.
The series collected its other nine awards at the Creative Arts ceremony held a week before. The Studio’s 13 wins broke the record set last year by The Bear with 11.
Rogen and Goldberg have been creative collaborators since their teen years at Point Grey Secondary School in Vancouver. The pair, who founded their production company Point Grey Pictures in 2011, and have created such titles as Superbad, Sausage Party, Neighbours and This is the End.
Heading into Sunday’s ceremony, The Studio led comedy nominees with a record-breaking 23 nominations — the most-ever for a comedy series in its first season. Severance topped the drama field, converting eight of its 27 nominations into wins.
The show, hosted by red-hot comedian Nate Bargatze, who just recently announced his Big Dumb Eyes World Tour will be stopping in Vancouver on July 23, 2026 at Rogers Arena, opened with Rogen winning Lead Actor in a Comedy Series, for his portrayal of the beleaguered and idealistic studio boss Matt Remick.
“This is amazing. I so could not wrap my head around this happening that I literally prepared nothing,” Rogen said during his acceptance speech. “I’ve never won anything in my life. When I was a kid, I bought a used bowling trophy at an estate sale, and my parents were like, ‘Yeah, that’s a good idea. You should probably buy that.'”
Rogen, who can also be seen in the Apple TV+ series Platonic, was nominated in the category alongside Adam Brody (Nobody Wants This), Jason Segel (Shrinking), Martin Short (Only Murders in the Building), and Jeremy Allen White (The Bear). White won the award in the same category for the past two years in a row.
Rogen’s four wins tie him for the record for most Emmys won by a single person in one night, with Moira Demos in 2016, Amy Sherman-Palladino in 2018 and Toronto’s Dan Levy in 2020.
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HBO’s medical procedural The Pitt took home the Outstanding Drama Series trophy, and its star Noah Wylie collected the Lead Actor in a Drama Series Emmy.
In the other big acting categories Jean Smart continued her Emmy dominance in the lead actress in a comedy series winning her fourth Emmy for her role of Deborah Vance in Hacks, and her seventh Emmy overall. Britt Lower took home the best actress in a drama series award for her turn in Severance.
The Late Show With Stephen Colbert took home the Emmy Award for best variety talk series, this on the heels of CBS announcing earlier this summer that the Late Show would be no more after May of 2026. That announcement came just days CBS’s parent company, Paramount, reached a multimillion-dollar settlement with U.S. President Donald Trump and while Paramount was looking to merge with Skydance, a deal that did go through in August.
Paramount has said the decision to cancel Colbert’s show was a financial one, though many spoke up suggesting that Colbert’s ouster had everything to do with Donald Trump and the show’s willingness to crack wise and speak up about the current administration.
“Stay strong. Be brave. And if the elevator tries to bring you down, go crazy and punch a higher floor,” said Colbert giving a nod to Prince.
Colbert, who was also the first presenter of the night, received a standing ovation for the win.
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See the full list of winners from the 2025 Emmy Awards broadcast
Outstanding drama series
Andor
The Diplomat
The Last of Us
Paradise
The Pitt — WINNER
Severance
Slow Horses
The White Lotus
Lead actor in a drama series
Sterling K. Brown, Paradise
Gary Oldman, Slow Horses
Pedro Pascal, The Last of Us
Adam Scott, Severance
Noah Wyle, The Pitt — WINNER
Outstanding Comedy series
Abbott Elementary
The Bear
Hacks
Nobody Wants This
Only Murders in the Building
Shrinking
The Studio — WINNER
What We Do in the Shadows
Lead actress in a drama series
Kathy Bates, Matlock
Sharon Horgan, Bad Sisters
Britt Lower, Severance — WINNER
Bella Ramsey, The Last of Us
Keri Russell, The Diplomat
Lead actress in a comedy series
Jean Smart, Hacks — WINNER
Uzo Aduba, The Residence
Kristen Bell, Nobody Wants This
Ayo Edebiri, The Bear
Quinta Brunson, Abbott Elementary
Lead actor in a comedy series
Jeremy Allen White, The Bear
Seth Rogen, The Studio — WINNER
Adam Brody, Nobody Wants This
Jason Segel, Shrinking
Martin Short, Only Murders in the Building
Outstanding supporting actor in a comedy series
Ike Barinholtz, The Studio
Colman Domingo The Four Seasons
Harrison Ford, Shrinking
Jeff Hiller Somebody Somewhere — WINNER
Ebon Moss-Bachrach The Bear
Michael Urie, Shrinking
Bowen Yang, Saturday Night Live
Outstanding supporting actress in a drama series
Patricia Arquette, Severance
Carrie Coon, The White Lotus
Katherine LaNasa, The Pitt — WINNER
Julianne Nicholson, Paradise
Parker Posey, The White Lotus
Natasha Rothwell, The White Lotus
Aimee Lou Wood, The White Lotus
Outstanding supporting actor in a drama series
Zach Cherry, Severance
Walton Goggins, The White Lotus
Jason Isaacs, The White Lotus
James Marsden, Paradise
Sam Rockwell, The White Lotus
Tramell Tillman, Severance — WINNER
John Turturro, Severance
Outstanding supporting actress in a comedy series
Liza Colón-Zayas, The Bear
Hannah Einbinder, Hacks — WINNER
Kathryn Hahn, The Studio
Janelle James, Abbott Elementary
Catherine O’Hara, The Studio
Sheryl Lee Ralph, Abbott Elementary
Jessica Williams, Shrinking
Outstanding supporting actor in a limited or anthology series or movie
Javier Bardem, Monsters: The Lyle And Erik Menendez Story
Bill Camp, Presumed Innocent
Owen Cooper, Adolescence — WINNER
Rob Delaney, Dying For Sex
Peter Sarsgaard, Presumed Innocent
Ashley Walters, Adolescence
Outstanding supporting actress in a limited or anthology series or movie
Erin Doherty, Adolescence — WINNER
Ruth Negga, Presumed Innocent
Deirdre O’Connell, The Penguin
Chloë Sevigny, Monsters: The Lyle And Erik Menendez Story
Jenny Slate, Dying for Sex
Christine Tremarco, Adolescence
Limited or anthology series
Adolescence — WINNER
Black Mirror
Dying for Sex
The Penguin
Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story
Outstanding talk series
The Daily Show
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert — WINNER
Lead actor in a limited or anthology series or movie
Colin Farrell, The Penguin
Stephen Graham, Adolescence — WINNER
Jake Gyllenhaal, Presumed Innocent
Brian Tyree Henry, Dope Thief
Cooper Koch, Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story
Lead actress in a limited or anthology series or movie
Cristin Milioti, The Penguin — WINNER
Cate Blanchett, Disclaimer
Meghann Fahy, Sirens
Rashida Jones, Black Mirror
Michelle Williams, Dying for Sex
Outstanding reality competition
The Amazing Race
RuPaul’s Drag Race
Survivor
Top Chef
The Traitors — WINNER
For all the rest of this year’s winners, go to Television Academy website here.
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