After Show Gets Cancelled, Sarah Silverman Talks About Her Emmy Nomination

I Love You, America got an Emmy nomination even though it got canceled.

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Actress and comedienne Sarah Silverman created waves as she presented her latest show, I Love You, America for the streaming app, Hulu. However, what created more waves was the surprising cancellation of the show even though it was received with unanimous acclaim.

Nevertheless, Sarah has scored an Emmy nomination for her show and in a recent interview with Variety, she talked about the same. “I don’t think I realized we were eligible,” Silverman recently told. Indeed, Hulu hadn’t mounted much (if any) of an Emmy campaign to promote the show in the months leading up to the nominations announcement in July. But the joke’s on everyone: “I Love You, America With Sarah Silverman” is still in the mix, and was nominated this year — competing against, yes, “Who Is America?” — in the variety sketch series category.

It’s a nice salve to the sting of being axed, and a rare one for a canceled show. Emmy voters don’t often nominate killed-off programs in top series categories, although there are a few exceptions: Perhaps most memorably, Fox’s short-lived “The Ben Stiller Show” managed to take home the Emmy for writing in a variety or music program in 1993.

“I had come to terms with the fact that we might not get nominated again,” says Funny or Die’s Joe Farrell, who was an executive producer on “I Love You, America.” “That was a bummer because I thought the show really delivered in this second batch of episodes.”

Silverman says the cancellation left her “heartbroken.” “I loved doing the show so much, and I got so attached to all the people,” she says. “It was my favorite thing. If we got nominated soon after we were canceled, it would be bittersweet. But I feel like it’s just sweet. I’m always on to the next thing.” 

What do you think are the chances of the show scoring a win? Leave in your comments below.

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