Emmys: Handicapping Best Actor in a Comedy Series

By Paige Albiniak
( Broadcasting & Cable )
published

Best Actor in a Comedy

The comedy field feels thin, with lots of actors likely to score repeat nominations.

Last year's winner, Jim Parsons of Big Bang Theory, remains a favorite.

30 Rock' s Alec Baldwin won this category in 2008 and 2009 and was nominated in 2007. Steve Carell has been nominated five times for The Office but has never won; hav ing just finished up his last season, it could finally happen. And Glee's hyper-talented Matthew Morrison, still riding high on the success of Fox's singing spectacular, also could earn a repeat nom.

Less likely but possible nominees in this category include Joel McHale for Community and Andre Braugher for Men of a Certain Age.

One thing is guaranteed: Two and a Half Men's Charlie Sheen will not be winning! this category.

Paige Albiniak
Paige Albiniak

Contributing editor Paige Albiniak has been covering the business of television for more than 25 years. She is a longtime contributor to Next TV, Broadcasting + Cable and Multichannel News. She concurrently serves as editorial director for The Global Entertainment Marketing Academy of Arts & Sciences (G.E.M.A.). She has written for such publications as TVNewsCheck, The New York Post, Variety, CBS Watch and more. Albiniak was B+C’s Los Angeles bureau chief from September 2002 to 2004, and an associate editor covering Congress and lobbying for the magazine in Washington, D.C., from January 1997 - September 2002.