‘The Bear’ Takes Home Best Director For A Comedy Series As Christopher Storer Shows Appreciation For Cast And Crew During ‘Fishes’ Shoot

The kitchen is still running hot for FX’s The Bear as the series took home the award for directing a comedy series. Series co-creator Christopher Storer started his directing speech by thanking FX for investing in something they shouldn’t; “a restaurant.”

During his speech for best director, Storer brought up the tight homey space they shot in and really realized how much he loved his cast and crew during the filming of the episode

“On this episode, we were all cramped into a smaller house and to see the whole crew and see how much they worked and cared and cared about each other, I except this award on their behalf of them,” he said. “How lucky we are to be doing this and anyone watching it means so much to us that you watch.”

Some of the other comedies competing in the directing categorioes included HBO’s Curb Your Enthusiasm and Hacks, Hulu’s Only Murders in the Building, ABC’s Abbott Elementary, Apple’s Palm Royale and FX’s Reservation Dogs and What We Do In The Shadows.

The Bear had already taken home awards in the acting categories with Jeremy Allen White, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Liza Colon-Zayas winning for best actor, supporting actor and supporting actress, completely the sweep in comedy portion of the show. The episode that took home best directing, Fishes, was already reaping the awards having helped land Jon Bernthal and Jamie Lee Curtis guest acting awards at the Creative Emmys last weekend.

This marks the second time Storer took home best directing for a comedy series winning at last years Emmys for directing the first season of The Bear as well.