Hey Mom by Louie Anderson

Author:Louie Anderson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Touchstone

Nominee

Hey Mom,

People have been talking for the last five or six months about how I’m going to win an Emmy for Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy because of my portrayal of Christine Baskets. It’s nice to hear but way ahead of things. Anyway, this morning was when they announced the nominees, but I couldn’t find it, not on TV, not on the Internet. I went to the Television Academy website and didn’t find it there, either. So I started to doubt myself—until I got a ton of calls and texts and emails from my friend Abraham, my manager Ahmos, and my publicists Glenn and Eve Schwartz. I don’t know if it was inside information or they just figured out how to track it down when I didn’t. Maybe I was just too nervous. But there it was, finally, on the Emmy site, that I got one of the seven nominations for Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy.

Yessssss!

It feels wonderful, I can’t lie. I read my name over and over, in slow motion. My competition I know well, from the comedy world or from their great work on TV—Andre Braugher from Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Ty Burrell from Modern Family, Tony Hale and Matt Walsh from Veep, Keegan-Michael Key from Key and Peele, and of course Tituss Burgess from Incredible Kimmy Schmidt or Unstoppable Kimmy Schmidt or Irrepressible Kimmy Schmidt. You’d like them all, Mom, but you’d love Tituss because he sings and he’s sweet and he has this way about him. Now I just have to wait two months until the night of the Emmys, September 18. Which means everyone will be saying congratulations for the next two months, which is way better than their saying, “You got robbed!” so that part’s great. And if I’m being honest, which why wouldn’t I be with you, Mom, I love that I worked really hard on the part of Christine. I’m making people feel a little differently with the character. I hope they laugh but I know they’re also feeling lots of things because I am, too. If they weren’t, and I wasn’t, then why bother doing the show? With Christine Baskets I put myself in your position as a mother. I put myself in your position as a wife. I put myself in a position of a woman who has been through a lot, seen a lot, who feels everything, who tries to right all the wrongs in her life and in everyone else’s lives, too. Who tries to take care of her children. All the things you did, Mom. And I keep one thing in mind during all the tough moments for the character in the show: Every time I have a turn where I must decide, Should I be mad or happy or sad? I think of you. I keep in mind your incredible humanity. Your depth. I’m telling you, Mom, you’re really something. People think that I’m suddenly a great actor but I’m just playing you. I believe I

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