Hamm, Davis, 'Veep,' 'Thrones' win first Emmys

Sixteen nominations, one win.

"I miss you guys so much," said Morgan, his speech slightly halting. Morgan, recovering from a 2014 car accident that left him with a brain injury, said he was starting to feel like himself again, "which means a whole lot of women are going to get pregnant at the after-party."

Morgan's appearance was in keeping with an evening that saw Emmys host Andy Samberg supported by so many "Saturday Night Live" veterans that you had to wonder if they were going for some kind of record.

"So many shows and so little time," sang Samberg in his opening, sounding like a TV critic with better pipes.

Emmy voters, too, must feel the burden of the peak-TV phenomenon: There were categories with as many as eight contenders.

While there were few real upsets, HBO's "Veep" won for the first time for outstanding comedy, HBO's "Game of Thrones" for best drama.

"Veep" lead actress Julia Louis-Dreyfus won for the fourth consecutive time, and Tony Hale's win wasn't a surprise, either. Hale also won in 2013.

The 67th Primetime Emmy Awards, held, coincidentally, on the 67th birthday of George R.R. Martin, was a good one for the best-selling author, whose novels inspired "Game of Thrones," which had been on a winning streak all night, along with HBO's "Olive Kitteridge," which cleaned up in the "limited series" category.

Streaming services also were heard from. Uzo Aduba, of Netflix's "Orange Is the New Black," won a second Emmy for the same role, but in the drama not comedy category; and Jeffrey Tambor won for lead actor in a comedy for Amazon's "Transparent."

As always, the Emmys broadcast itself generated winners and losers in categories the Television Academy didn't get to:

Chewing with his mouth open: Attempting to create suspense in a moment without it, presenter Jimmy Kimmel threatened not to announce the name of the lead actor in a comedy, at one point thrusting the part of the card that contained the name of Tambor into his mouth, then listing the nominees as he masticated.

Standing ovation we didn't see coming: The one coaxed out of the audience by "Late Late Show" host James Corden for the accountants at Ernst & Young.

Attack on an unsuspecting game-show host: By "Last Week Tonight" host John Oliver on Alex Trebek, whose long run on "Jeopardy!" somehow became part of Oliver's ramble on the meaning of "limited series," a category he insisted had been invented to exclude "Jeopardy!" "The last sound emitted on Earth will be a Trebek sigh," he declared.

Mic drop: "We're all here because of the power of a story well-told. Sometimes that's enough," said "Olive Kitteridge" star Frances McDormand, splendidly succinct in accepting the Emmy for lead actress in a limited series.

Emergency thank-you to HBO: McDormand, who broke protocol by being so succinct she didn't thank HBO in her first visit to the stage, was reminded to do it for her second. "Yay, HBO," she said. (I do hope she's going to be OK.)

Least surprising statement of the evening: winner Bill Murray couldn't be here tonight." (Blogger HughE Dillon reports Murray is in Philadelphia for his son's wedding.)