Here are the 2017 comedy Emmy nominations

The Emmys come only but once a year. And this year's looks to be more diverse than ever, comedy wise that is. The usual suspects like Veep are there but then newcomers like Samantha Bee and Pamela Aldon join the fun. The Emmys air on Sunday, September 17th at 8 PM. Stephen Colbert will host so we know who's not winning his award...(jk I don't know).

“Outstanding Comedy Series
Atlanta
Black-ish
Master of None
Modern Family
Silicon Valley
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
Veep

Outstanding Variety Talk Series
Full Frontal with Samantha Bee
Jimmy Kimmel Live
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
The Late Late Show with James Corden
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Real Time with Bill Maher

Outstanding Variety Sketch Series
Billy on the Street
Documentary Now!
Drunk History
Portlandia
Saturday Night Live
Tracey Ullman’s Show

Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series
Anthony Anderson, Black-ish
Aziz Ansari, Master of None
Zach Galifianakis, Baskets
Donald Glover, Atlanta
William H. Macy, Shameless
Jeffrey Tambor, Transparent

Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series
Pamela Adlon, Better Things
Jane Fonda, Grace and Frankie
Allison Janney, Mom
Ellie Kemper, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
Julia-Louis Dreyfus, Veep
Tracee Ellis Ross, Black-ish
Lily Tomlin, Grace and Frankie

Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series
Louie Anderson, Baskets
Ty Burrell, Modern Family
Alec Baldwin, Saturday Night Live
Tituss Burgess, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
Tony Hale, Veep
Matt Walsh, Veep

Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series
Vanessa Bayer, Saturday Night Live
Leslie Jones, Saturday Night Live
Kate McKinnon, Saturday Night Live
Kathryn Hahn, Transparent
Judith Light, Transparent
Anna Chlumsky, Veep

Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series
Riz Ahmed, Girls
Matthew Rhys, Girls
Dave Chappelle, Saturday Night Live
Lin-Manuel Miranda, Saturday Night Live
Tom Hanks, Saturday Night Live
Hugh Laurie, Veep

Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series
Wanda Sykes, Black-ish
Carrie Fisher, Catastrophe
Becky Ann Baker, Girls
Angela Bassett, Master of None
Kristen Wiig, Saturday Night Live
Melissa McCarthy, Saturday Night Live

Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series
Donald Glover, Atlanta
Jamie Babbitt, Silicon Valley
Mike Judge, Silicon Valley
Morgan Sackett, Veep
David Mandell, Veep
Dale Stern, Veep

Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series
Donald Glover, Atlanta
Stephen Glover, Atlanta
Lena Waithe, Master of None
Alec Berg, Silicon Valley
Billy Kimball, Veep
David Mandell, Veep

Outstanding Animated Program
Archer
Bob’s Burgers
Elena and the Secret of Avalor
The Simpsons
South Park

Outstanding Writing for a Variety Series
Full Frontal with Samantha Bee
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
Late Night with Seth Meyers
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Saturday Night Live

Outstanding Writing for a Variety Special
Full Frontal with Samantha Bee Presents Not the White House Correspondents’ Dinner
Louis C.K. 2017
Sarah Silverman: A Speak of Dust
Stephen Colbert’s Live Election Night Democracy’s Series Finale: Who’s Going to Clean Up This Sh*t?
70th Annual Tony Awards

Outstanding Short Form Series – Comedy or Drama
Brown Girls
Fear the Walking Dead: Passage
Hack into Broad City
Los Pollos Hermanos Employee Training
Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: Slingshot

Outstanding Short Form Series – Variety
Behind the Voice
The Daily Show – Between the Scenes
Epic Rap Battles of History
Honest Trailers
The Star Wars Show

Outstanding Actor in a Short Form Series – Comedy or Drama
Ty Burrell, Boondoggle
Alan Tudyk, Con Man
Kim Estes, Dicks
Ben Schwartz, The Earliest Show
Jason Ritter, Tales of Titans
John Michael Higgins, Tween Fest

Outstanding Actress in a Short Form Series – Comedy or Drama
Mindy Sterling, Con Man
Jane Lynch, Dropping the Soap
Lauren Lapkus, The Earliest Show
Kelsey Scott, Fear the Walking Dead: Passage
Mindy Sterling, secs & EXECS”

Andy Richter is hosting a Jimmy Kimmel game show on ABC

It's like the convergence of two different late night TV shows. Andy Richter is hosting a Jimmy Kimmel game show that's based on a bit from the latter host's show. Dubbed Big Fan, the Hollywood Reporter says the six episode weekly series comes from the apparently popular -- although I was hard pressed to find more than the one video of it -- game on Jimmy Kimmel Live called "Who knows...?" in which a celebrity is matched against a fan to answer trivia questions. But ABC doesn't care about establishing new IPs; they want to get into that sweet, sweet late night show sketch turned game show game. This comes after Spike and Jimmy Fallon's Lip Sync Battle became a ratings vacuum and the very same network picked up Caraoke Showdown, a series with similar premise to that thing James Cordon does. Kimmel is, of course, set to executive produce the series.

Bob Odenkirk thinks ahead, brings own interview questions to Kimmel

Bob Odenkirk is a smart man as evidenced by his comedy. Naturally, a smart person wants the right questions asked instead of pandering around with inane small talk. During his appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live last night, Odenkirk gave his own pre-prepared Emmy questions to the only host he thought could handle the job. He also reveals the Mr. Show spiritual successor on Netflix, With Bob and David, is slated to premiere this fall.

'Friends' Fan Fiction Acted Out By Jennifer Aniston, Courtney Cox, and Lisa Kudrow

Jimmy Kimmel Live may be trailing behind the Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon on the internet video views but Kimmel is working his way back by writing fan fiction. On last night's Live, the host informed Aniston that he had some faction that he would love for her to act out with him. Kimmel took the reign as Ross while Aniston, Cox, and Kudrow reprised their roles on a replica of the famous apartment from the series.