Candice Bergen got here out swinging on Sunday evening.
She simply did it in a considerably hushed tone.
At one level in the course of the 2024 Emmy Awards, viewers and attendees have been taken without warning when the legendary actress got here out on stage to current the trophy for Excellent Lead Actress in a Comedy Collection.
Candice Bergen speaks on stage in the course of the 76th Primetime Emmy Awards at Peacock Theater on September 15, 2024 in Los Angeles, California. (Picture by Kevin Winter/Getty Photos)
Previous to revealing the identify of this 12 months’s winner, Bergen took a jab at Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance whereas alluding to one of the vital well-known moments from Murphy Brown.
“For 11 years, I had the tremendous privilege of playing the lead in a comedy series called Murphy Brown,” Bergen stated earlier than a rapt viewers, who had simply given her a standing ovation.
“In one classic moment, my character was attacked by Vice President Dan Quayle when Murphy became pregnant and decided to raise the baby as a single mother.”
Added Bergen in sarcastic vogue:
“Oh how far we’ve come… Today, a Republican candidate for vice president would never attack a woman for having kids.”
The actress concluded her joke with a “meow,” referencing J.D. Vance’s notorious 2021 interview by which he stated that “childless cat ladies” are ruining America.
Candice Bergen acquired a standing ovation on the 2024 Emmy Awards. (Picture by Kevin Winter/Getty Photos)
Bergen has acquired consideration for this joke, but additionally for the way in which she delivered it.
Many observers couldn’t assist however notice the star’s considerably stilted and sluggish speech, prompting curiosity over her well being standing and normal well-being.
One useful reality, after all, could also be that Candice Bergen is 78 years previous.
However right here’s one other: She suffered a stroke in 2006.
Candice Bergen speaks onstage throughout Mo Rocca In Dialog With Candice Bergen: “Rocktogenarians: Late In Life Debuts, Comebacks, And Triumphs” at 92NY on July 15, 2024 in New York Metropolis. (Picture by Dia Dipasupil/Getty Photos)
Sure, that was a really very long time in the past.
However Bergen stated in 2012 that the stroke impacted her reminiscence, which was by no means the “same” after the incident.
“The reality is that I don’t look like I used to look,” the actress additionally stated again then. “I simply don’t care sufficient, and in a method it’s saved me.
Bergen emphasised this identical level in her 2015 memoir, writing merely:
“Let me simply come proper out and say it – I’m fats.
“In the past 15 years … I have put on 30 pounds. I live to eat. None of this ‘eat to live’ stuff for me.”
On the age of 78, Bergen additionally lives to make us snigger and, all issues thought-about, is doing very effectively.
We’re unsure if the identical will be stated of J.D. Vance.
