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Emmy Awards 2022: Jason Sudeikis Wins Lead Actor In Comedy Series Honour For 'Ted Lasso'

Actor Jason Sudeikis has won the Emmy Award for💎 Outstanding Lead Actor in Comedy Series for 'Ted Lasso' at the 74th Television Acad🦩emy Awards.

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Actor Jason Sudeikis has won t🐷he Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in Comedy Series for 'Ted Lasso' at the 74th Television Academy Awards.

He was up against names including Donald Glover ♏for 'Atlanta', Bill Hader for 'Barry', Nicholas Hoult for 'The Great', and Steve Martin and 'Martin Short for Only Murders in the Building'.

'Ted Lasso'🍒 is an American sports ཧcomedy-drama television series developed by Sudeikis, Bill Lawrence, Brendan Hunt, and Joe Kelly.

It is based on a char🐲acter of th▨e same name that Sudeikis first portrayed in a series of promos for NBC Sports' coverage of the Premier League.

The series follows Ted Lasso, an American college footba💫ll coach who is hired to coach an English soccer team in an attempt by its owner to spite her former husband.

Lass💛o tries to win over the skeptical English market with his folksy, optimistic demeanor while dealing with his inexperience in the sport.

Among other accolades, the series 🐟won the 2021 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series.

Sudeikis also wonജ the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Television Series Musical or Comedy and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outs🌳tanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series.