2024 Emmys: How much screen time does each Best Comedy Actor nominee have?
Although all of the 2023 lead and supporting comedy acting Emmy winners are eligible for immediate repeat victories, only three have submitted performances longer than the ones that initially earned them the gold. The odd one out in that regard is the male star of “The Bear,” Jeremy Allen White, who was lauded for his 27 minutes and 18 seconds of work in the first season finale and is now looking to prevail with less than half that time in the second season closer.
The six current comedy actor contenders asked voters to consider their work in episodes in which they appear for an average of 16 minutes and 58 seconds (or 49.26% of the total running time). This data was calculated using a simple definition of stand-alone screen time, which is any time a given performer can be seen on screen or heard off screen. Contiguous moments of silent and non-visible scene time were not counted.
White specifically appears in 13 minutes and 33 seconds (or 33.35%) of his selected episode, the last three quarters of which involve his character being trapped inside his restaurant’s walk-in refrigerator. The only one of his current competitors with less physical and proportional screen time is Steve Martin, who is seen for 10 minutes and 12 seconds (or 26.69%) in the “Sitzprobe” installment of “Only Murders in the Building,” which features his nearly three-minute rendition of the Emmy-winning song “Which of the Pickwick Triplets Did It?”.
The member of this group with the lowest actual screen time is “What We Do in the Shadows” star Matt Berry, who stands with dramatic performers Idris Elba (“Hijack”) and Gary Oldman (“Slow Horses”) as one of three current lead nominees with less than 10 minutes of time in his submitted episode (“Pride Parade”; 9:43 or 37.02%). Also in the mix is Martin’s costar, Martin Short, whose “Ah, Love!” performance outpaces his rival’s by three minutes and 41 seconds (and 12.71%) while constituting a nearly six-minute (and 16%) decrease compared to his 2023 submission.
The highest positions on this lineup’s time and percentage-based lists respectively belong to Larry David (“Curb Your Enthusiasm”) and D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai (“Reservation Dogs”), the latter of whom is this year’s only acting nominee who appears as the sole regular cast member within his chosen episode. His 23-minute and 52-second performance in “Maximus” amounts to a staggering proportional time of 81.46%, whereas David amasses 30 minutes and 36 seconds (or 77.66%) in “Vertical Drop, Horizontal Tug.”
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