Emmys 2024: Jennifer Coolidge Thanked All the Evil Gays for Her Emmys Win

At this point, Jennifer Coolidge needs to win an award for best acceptance speech. The White Lotus star dedicated her Emmys victory to “all the evil gays” in short but unforgettable onstage remarks after nabbing the trophy for best supporting actress in a drama series.

A beloved actress among the LGBTQ+ community, Coolidge has been riding a career high that has been a joy to behold. Her acceptance speech for her Golden Globes win last January — awarded for the same role on the HBO drama — was a highlight of that ceremony, too, featuring Coolidge waxing genuinely emotional about her professional renaissance. Although briefer, and more to the point, her 2023 Emmys speech was no less iconic.

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She began by setting down the trophy on stage, citing its heaviness, before launching into the thank yous, singling out White Lotus creator Mike White for a special mention. (“He says I’m definitely dead, so I’m going along with it,” she joked.) But Coolidge apparently bears no ill will to the evil gays who were memorably trying to murder her, because she dedicated the bulk of her time to immoral homosexuals everywhere, specifically calling out the actors who played her on-screen tormentors.

This is most definitely a case of Coolidge knowing her fans: In the 2021 Netflix Christmas movie Single All the Way, her character Aunt Sandy self-referentially reflected on the gay obsession with Coolidge, saying, “The gays just know how to do stuff. For some reason, they’re always obsessed with me.”

That obsession was in full force at the 2024 Emmys — which were, in fact, the rescheduled 2023 Emmy Awards. When Coolidge was announced as the winner in her category, the RuPaul’s Drag Race queens were apparently the first to give her a standing ovation, as IndieWire editor Marcus Jones noted on X.

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