Lamorne Morris, who seemed as surprised as everyone else to be onstage getting an Emmy, didn’t hesitate to gush about his fellow nominees during his hyper-adrenalized acceptance speech.
One of then got a shoutout by name. “Robert Downey Jr., I’ve got a poster of you in my house!” the Fargo actor raved. “Please sign it, seriously.” As he spoke, the camera caught Downey in the audience pumping his fist and smiling.
Morris, who was honored for playing North Dakota Deputy Witt Farr, outdid the category’s two favorites, according to prognosticators: Downey (The Sympathizer) and Jonathan Bailey (Fellow Travelers).
Had Downey won, he would have become the first actor to ever win an Oscar, Daytime Emmy and a Primetime Emmy in the same year.
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