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The nominations of 2025 during the Emmy’s stellar schedule were officially announced on Tuesday morning, and although “The Bear” has reasons to celebrate its last five winks of the television academy, some social media users are furious, because the apparent drama is competing as a comedy once again.
The FX series achieved nominations for the main actress in a comedy series (Ayo Edebiri), main actor in a comedy series (Jeremy Allen White), support actress in a comedy series (Liza Colón-Zayas) and support actor in a comedy series (Ebon Moss-Bachrach).
“The Bear” focuses on a chef that returns to Chicago to direct his family sandwiches store after his brother’s death. The program presents genuinely dramatic elements, including suicide, depression and substance abuse. Although it premiered with a generalized acclamation in 2022, many found that season 3 was missing compared to the previous seasons.
He was also nominated in the comedy series category along with much more obvious entries in the genre, such as “The Studio” and “What we do in the shadows.”
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This is the third consecutive year that “The Bear” is competing as a comedy, to the anger of many.
“Re: Emmy nominations: the bear is not a comedy, the bear is not a comedy, the bear is not a comedy,” One X User wrote, and another pointed out: “I see that #emmy nominations are happening. Also known as the annual reminder that the bear is not a comedy.”
“The bear is not a comedy … compared to the other comedy nominees, it is a drama,” a user wrote in X. “Playing programs in categories that do not belong just so they can sweep is so unfair for the other nominees whose shows are genuine comedies!”
Annual reminder that “the bear” does not belong to the Emmy comedy category; It is a reduction trick of the genre that is only done because to compete in the drama category you now have to be a prestige format of one hour that costs seven figures per episode.
– A dozen rats on a keyboard (@panasonicdx4500) July 15, 2025
Emmy’s nomination are coming and how they have not fixed the fact that the bear is not a comedy. Last year with the winning hacks of the best comedy series it was a fairly clear sign that voters also thought.
– Chris Hine (@christophine) July 15, 2025
The Emmy still pretends that the bear is a comedy 🙄
– James Russell (@jbrusty) July 15, 2025
I am a great admirer of the bear. Obsessed. I love it.
But it is not a comedy, and including it in the Emmy comedy category harms the other nominees. @Theemmys needs to find a solution.
– Bill Prady ⚛️ now in 🦋 (@billprady) July 15, 2025
Unfortunately, the Emmy award lost all its credibility when the bear was labeled as a “comedy”
– Cameron Kassky (@camkaskky) July 15, 2025
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Numerous members of the “The Bear” cast were recognized in the Emmy 2023 and 2024 for their actions, including White, Edebiri, Moss-Bachrach and Colón-Zayas.
It remains to be seen if the “sweep” program in this year’s next ceremony, since “The Bear” faces strong competition. The 77th Emmy of the star schedule are organized by Comic Nate Bargatze and will be broadcast live on News on September 14.