The Awardist Emmys Last Week Tonight With John Oliver extends Emmys winning streak for Best Variety Talk Series By Lauren Huff Lauren Huff Lauren Huff is a writer at Entertainment Weekly with over a decade of experience covering all facets of the entertainment industry. After graduating with honors from the University of Texas at Austin (Hook 'em, Horns!), Lauren wrote about film, television, awards season, music, and more for the likes of The Hollywood Reporter, Deadline Hollywood, Us Weekly, Awards Circuit, and others before landing at EW in May 2019. EW's editorial guidelines Published on September 20, 2020 09:46PM EDT Photo: Invision/AP/Shutterstock Last Week Tonight With John Oliver took home the trophy for Outstanding Talk Series at the 72nd Emmy Awards on Sunday night, furthering the show's win streak. With the win, Oliver's HBO show extends its winning streak to five, having won in this category every year since 2016. (Only The Daily Show With Jon Stewart and the Late Show With David Letterman have more wins, with 11 and 6, respectively.) "Thank you so much to the Academy for sending what’s technically a small bomb to my house," Oliver joked upon accepting the award. "The way this year has gone I wouldn’t be surprised if this had blown up and caused a small wildfire in New York." In the virtual press room, he also joked, "This is different from the others as you can tell because mentally half my mind is how I’m going to clean up all of this f---ing glitter. This feels very nice. A decapitated hand gave me an Emmy out of box, that’s how I always dreamt it." He also gave special thanks to HBO, the show's producers, his staff, and his family (shoutout to his wife who did his makeup!). "All of these variety shows have been very fortunate to be able to do our shows and not stop through the pandemic," he said. "I don’t take that lightly. We’ve been incredibly lucky and it's only because of our staff and how hard they’ve worked." Oliver likened working on his show over Zoom to "being a passenger on a plane with the pilot passed out." But, on a more serious note, he said, "I haven’t seen my staff in six months, I miss you so much I honestly cannot wait to when we’re in the same space together whenever that is." Oliver's show bested fellow nominees The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, The Daily Show With Trevor Noah, Full Frontal With Samantha Bee, and Jimmy Kimmel Live. See the full list of 2020 Emmy winners. Related content: Emmy Awards 2020: See the list of winners (Updating live) Ron and Jasmine Cephas Jones are now an Emmy-winning father-daughter duo Maya Rudolph scores Guest Actress in a Comedy Emmy for turn as Kamala Harris on SNL RuPaul smashes record with fifth Emmy win for hosting Drag Race