‘The Bear’ looks to serve up a rare comedy trifecta at the Golden Globes

Joyce Eng
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Ayo Edebiri‘s upgrade to lead for Season 2 of “The Bear” has already cooked up some good results. She earned her inaugural Golden Globe nomination in Best TV Comedy/Musical Actress, setting up the FX hit to achieve a rare Globe hat trick: sweeping three comedy categories in the same year.

And “The Bear” is expected to do just that in the early odds, sitting in first place in Best Comedy/Musical Series, Best TV Comedy/Musical Actress for Edebiri and Best TV Comedy/Musical Actor for Jeremy Allen White. The last show to accomplish this was “30 Rock” in 2009. The NBC comedy won its only series Globe then and earned lead acting honors for Tina Fey (her second of two) and Alec Baldwin (his second of three). Prior to this, you have to go all the way back to 1993 for another comedy triple play, when “Roseanne” and stars Roseanne Barr and John Goodman prevailed.

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Globe series winners typically carry at least one acting award, but a lot of show don’t have male and female leads, so they don’t have the opportunity to sweep. Since “30 Rock’s” feat, “Girls,” “Brooklyn Nine-Nine,” “Transparent,” “Mozart in the Jungle,” “Atlanta,” “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,” “The Kominsky Method,” “Fleabag,” “Hacks” and reigning champ “Abbott Elementary” have all won the comedy/musical series and one lead acting award in the same year, but none of them feature dual leads. (“Glee” did pull off the even more uncommon feat of winning series and both genre-neutral supporting categories for Chris Colfer and Jane Lynch in 2011).

The comedy that came closest to nabbing the trifecta was “Schitt’s Creek” in 2021. The Pop TV hit was riding high from its historic seven-for-seven Emmy sweep for its sixth and final season. It received five Globe nominations — the show’s first Globe bids ever — and ended up winning two: series and lead actress for Catherine O’Hara. Eugene Levy lost the lead actor prize to Jason Sudeikis for the first season of “Ted Lasso.”

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Last year, “The Bear” scored two Globe noms for its breakout first season, series and lead actor for White, who won and is looking good to defend his crown against Sudeikis, Bill Hader (“Barry”), Jason Segel (“Shrinking”) and the “Only Murders in the Building” duo of Steve Martin and Martin Short. The show fell to “Abbott” in the top category, but it definitely has the edge this go-around as for its even better received second season, expanding to five nominations (Ebon Moss-Bachrach and Abby Elliott are shortlisted in supporting), while “Abbott,” which won three awards, went from five bids to two. “The Bear” way out in front in the series race at 69/20 against “Jury Duty,” “Only Murders in the Building,” “Abbott Elementary,” “Ted Lasso” and Barry.”

Edebiri competed in supporting actress for Season 1 and made other awards shows in that category, including the long-delayed Emmys, which will take place eight days after the Globes in January, but was snubbed by the Globes last year — despite the Globes having split the TV supporting categories that have now been re-combined. Her upgrade to lead makes sense as her character, Sydney, who’s always been the de facto female lead, had a lot of prominence in Season 2. Plus, the move opens up the supporting category for her co-stars like Elliott to make it in. On paper, it might sound like a lot to go from a supporting snubbee to a lead winner, but Edebiri, who also has some cachet from “Bottoms,” is on the hottest show and likely series winner in her lineup, which consists of defending champ Quinta Brunson (“Abbott Elementary”), Natasha Lyonne (“Poker Face”), Selena Gomez (“Only Murders in the Building”), Rachel Brosnahan (“The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel”) and Elle Fanning (“The Great”). Not to mention, as the first awards show out of the gate in the new year, the Globes can have bragging rights as the first group to award Edebiri in lead.

So, yeah, what’s on the menu looks like the first comedy sweep in 15 years.

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