The 74th annual Peabody Awards’ entertainment category recipients were announced today, and among the winners are a few new and returning comedy series. Ahead of its season 3 debut next week, Comedy Central’s Inside Amy Schumer earned an award while HBO’s Last Week Tonight and CW’s “immaculately conceived†breakout hit Jane the Virgin also won awards for their work this year. The Peabody Awards will be handed out in New York on Sunday, May 31st; check out the full rundown of the comedy-related winners below:
Fargo (FX)MGM and FX Productions“Fargo,†the series, boasts the same snow-swept backdrop and dark, deadpan ambience as the Oscar-winning movie but tells a different, more complicated story. Its villain, Billy Bob Thornton’s mischievous, murderous, charismatic Lorne Malvo, is a character worthy of Norse mythology.Inside Amy Schumer (Comedy Central)Jax Media LLCSchumer’s wholesome, disarming “Brady Bunch†looks belie and enhance a comic intelligence that’s smart, distinctively female and amiably profane, whether she’s applying it to sketch comedy, stand-up, or person-on-the-street interviews.Jane the Virgin (The CW)Eye Productions Inc., CBS Television Studios Inc., Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc., Electus; RCTV; Poppy Productions.Immaculately conceived, it’s a smart, self-aware telenovela that knows when and how to wink at itself. Its Latina lead, Gina Rodriguez, is incandescent.Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)HBO Entertainment in association with Sixteen String Jack Productions and Avalon TelevisionA most worthy addition to the news-as-comedy genre, “Last Week Tonight†doesn’t just satirize the previous week’s news, it engages in fresh, feisty investigative reports that “real†news programs would do well to emulate.