2026 Emmy predictions: best comedy actor

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Martin Short holds a tiny vantage implicit Jason Segel. It’s hard to judge Short has lone won Emmys for penning and producing, but Glenn Whipp wonders, “Might it beryllium Martin Short’s year? The caller Netflix documentary ‘Marty, Life Is Short’ offers a moving look astatine the losses Short has endured implicit the years. It volition lone assistance his chances of winning the archetypal acting Emmy of his celebrated career.”

Meanwhile, Matt Roush writes, “Ethan Hawke’s bedraggled bravura show successful ‘The Lowdown’ and Steve Carell’s low-key prima crook successful ‘Rooster’ look the astir apt newcomers this year, but I’m besides rooting for Alexander Skarsgård’s deliciously deadpan ‘Murderbot’ to sneak in.”

“Wonder Man” continues to get showered with emotion from the panel: “ ‘Wonder Man’ whitethorn person travel retired of the Marvel Cinematic Universe,” says Lorraine Ali, “but it broke the mold to go 1 of the year’s champion comedies, acknowledgment to originative storytelling and a stellar show by Yahya Abdul-Mateen II.” Abdul-Mateen, who is besides a play menace for his Netflix actioner “Man connected Fire,” “deserves to beryllium portion of the speech present for making ‘Wonder Man’ specified an entertaining (and affecting) ride,” adds Kristen Baldwin.

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1. Martin Short, “Only Murders successful the Building”
2. Jason Segel, “Shrinking”
3. Steve Carell, “Rooster”
4. Jeremy Allen White, “The Bear”
5. Ethan Hawke, “The Lowdown”
6. Steve Martin, “Only Murders successful the Building”
7. Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, “Wonder Man”
8. Adam Brody, “Nobody Wants This”

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Los Angeles Times

Lorraine Ali

T1. Steve Carell, “Rooster”
T1. Ethan Hawke, “The Lowdown”
T3. Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, “Wonder Man”
T3. Dan Levy, “Big Mistakes”
T3. Jason Segel, “Shrinking”
6. Adam Brody, “Nobody Wants This”

“ ‘Wonder Man’ whitethorn person travel retired of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but it broke the mold to go 1 of the year’s champion comedies, acknowledgment to originative storytelling and a stellar show by Yahya Abdul-Mateen II. Now tin helium summon immoderate of his character’s superpowers to marque the cut?”

Freelance Critic

Kristen Baldwin

1. Martin Short, “Only Murders successful the Building”
2. Jason Segel, “Shrinking”
3. Steve Martin, “Only Murders successful the Building”
4. Jeremy Allen White, “The Bear”
5. Steve Carell, “Rooster”
6. Adam Brody, “Nobody Wants This”

“Yahya Abdul-Mateen II deserves to beryllium portion of the speech present for making ‘Wonder Man’ specified an entertaining (and affecting) ride. I’d besides emotion to spot Matthew Rhys get immoderate awards emotion for his stellar comedic crook arsenic the politician of a cursed seaside municipality successful Apple TV’s ‘Widow’s Bay.’ ”

Los Angeles Times

Tracy Brown

1. Martin Short, “Only Murders successful the Building”
2. Jason Segel, “Shrinking”
3. Jeremy Allen White, “The Bear”
4. Steve Carell, “Rooster”
5. Adam Brody, “Nobody Wants This”
6. Ethan Hawke, “The Lowdown”

“This is different class that volition beryllium stacked with past nominees, but I deliberation ‘The Lowdown’s’ Ethan Hawke, ‘Wonder Man’s’ Yahya Abdul-Mateen II and ‘The Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins’ ’ Tracy Morgan each person a changeable astatine making the cut. I springiness the borderline to Hawke.”

Blavity

Trey Mangum

1. Martin Short, “Only Murders successful the Building”
2. Jason Segel, “Shrinking”
3. Steve Martin, “Only Murders successful the Building”
4. Jeremy Allen White, “The Bear”
5. Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, “Wonder Man”
6. Adam Brody, “Nobody Wants This”

“Another information is coming for one, if not both, of the ‘Only Murders successful the Building’ guys, but I deliberation ‘Shrinking’s’ breakout play puts Jason Segel a spot supra them.”

TV Insider

Matt Roush

1. Martin Short, “Only Murders successful the Building”
2. Ethan Hawke, “The Lowdown”
3. Jason Segel, “Shrinking”
4. Steve Carell, “Rooster”
5. Jeremy Allen White, “The Bear”
6. Steve Martin, “Only Murders successful the Building”

“Ethan Hawke’s bedraggled bravura show successful ‘The Lowdown’ and Steve Carell’s low-key prima crook successful ‘Rooster’ look the astir apt newcomers this year, but I’m besides rooting for Alexander Skarsgård’s deliciously deadpan ‘Murderbot’ to sneak in. Glen Powell went large successful disguise arsenic ‘Chad Powers,’ but volition it beryllium enough?”

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Los Angeles Times

Glenn Whipp

1. Martin Short, “Only Murders successful the Building”
2. Jason Segel, “Shrinking”
3. Steve Carell, “Rooster”
4. Jeremy Allen White, “The Bear”
5. Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, “Wonder Man”
6. Tracy Morgan, “The Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins”

“Might it beryllium Martin Short’s year? The caller Netflix documentary ‘Marty, Life Is Short’ offers a moving look astatine the losses Short has endured implicit the years. It volition lone assistance his chances of winning the archetypal acting Emmy of his celebrated career.”

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