On September 4th at the Creative Arts Emmys, Nathan Lane won the award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series for the performance as Teddy Dimas in Only Murders in the Building. In the end, TK triumphed over the other candidates. Featured SNL performer Jerrod Carmichael, Curb Your Enthusiasm’s Bill Hader, Hacks’ Christopher McDonald, and James Lance and Sam Richardson, both up for a Ted Lasso, are all up for this award.
Actor Nathan Lane plays Teddy Dimas in the murder mystery Only Murders in the Building. Other Arconia residents include Steve Martin’s Charles-Haden Savage, Martin Short’s Oliver Putnam, and Selena Gomez’s Mabel Mora. Teddy, whose deli supports the trio’s true crime podcast, is an old acquaintance of Oliver’s from his days in the theatre, but he eventually turns out to have a far greater part in the murder they are trying to solve. The episode “The Boy From 6B” for which Lane won is notable in that it is told entirely through the eyes of Teddy’s deaf son Theo (James Caverly).
Thus, all of the episode’s conversation takes place through lip-reading and ASL. Season 2, which just wrapped off at the end of August, also included Teddy Dimas in recurring roles.
This past weekend, the Creative Arts Emmys were presented at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles over the course of two nights. The event will be condensed into one show and shown on FXX on September 10 in advance of the Primetime Emmys on September 12.