Selena Gomez pokes fun at ‘childless cat lady’ comments at Emmys | Ents & Arts News

From jokes about the “childless cat lady” to calls to vote, the upcoming US presidential election played a big role in this year’s Emmy Awards.

Followed Taylor Swift’s public support for Kamala Harriswhich made fun of Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance’s now infamous comment about “childless cat ladies”, Selena Gomez and Candice Bergen also joked about the remarks on stage at the Emmy.

Despite the political references that run through the entire ceremony, no reference was made on stage to the recent apparent assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump.

Gomez, who shared the stage with her “Only Murders In The Building” co-stars Martin Short and Steve Martin, presented the first award of the evening.

“I want to say it’s a great honor to work with two guys who are so far from being childless cat ladies,” joked the 32-year-old.

The Bear star Ebon Moss-Bachrach, who accepted a supporting actor award from the trio, thanked his parents in his acceptance speech, saying, “They take such good care of my cat.”

Later, before presenting the award for Best Actress in a Comedy Series to “Hacks” star Jean Smart, Bergen reflected on her own sitcom, “Murphy Brown.”

“I was surrounded by brilliant and funny actors, had the best scripts to work with, and in a classic moment, my character was attacked by Vice President Dan Quayle when Murphy became pregnant and decided to raise the baby as a single mother,” said the 78-year-old.

“Oh, how far we’ve come. Today, a Republican vice presidential candidate would never attack a woman for having children. So, as they say, my work here is done.”

Then she added a “meow.”

Mr Vance was criticized for comments he made in a 2021 Fox News interview in which he said the Democratic Party was run by “a bunch of childless cat ladies.”

After he was announced as Trump’s running mate, the remarks reposted by Friends star Jennifer Aniston who used the clip to criticize his opposition to a law making IVF a universal right, adding: “I really can’t believe this is coming from a potential Vice President of the United States.”

Elsewhere, Liza Colon-Zayas, who won an Emmy for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Bear, used her time on stage to urge people to vote.

“To all the Latinas looking at me, keep believing and go vote, vote for your rights,” she said on stage.

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Billy Crudup accepted the award for best supporting actor for his performance in “The Morning Show” and thanked his wife Naomi Watts, who was also nominated for “Feud: Capote vs. the Swans.”

He specifically stressed that Watts, who is British and grew up in Australia, is “an immigrant”.

And although the apparent assassination attempt on Trump was not directly mentioned on stage on Sunday, host Jon Stewart, who won the Daily Show’s award for outstanding talk series, told reporters, “We live in a terrible time.”

He added: “I think the one rule we could all benefit from in terms of deployment is the shooting ban. No matter how angry you are, no matter who you don’t like or hate, I think introducing a shooting ban would be the way to calm things down a bit.”