Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorNicole Byer has made history by becoming the first Black woman to be nominated for an Emmy for outstanding host for a reality or competition program for her work on the fourth season of Netflix’s amateur bake-off series “Nailed It!” “People sometimes go, ‘It’s very humbling,’ but I’m like humbling means you’re smaller than you are. … This is affirming,” the 33-year-old comedian says on Thursday’s episode of the Variety and iHeart podcast “The Big Ticket.” “I feel delightful, and I love screaming around my house, ‘I am an Emmy nominee!’” Even so, she’s not preparing an acceptance speech anytime soon.
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