The 74th Primetime Emmy Awards nominees were announced on Tuesday, 12 July and Trevor Noah’s The Daily Show has bagged a whopping seven Emmy nominations and the star is speechless.

“I’m so thrilled for everyone on The Daily Show team and incredibly lucky to be part of a place where we can laugh, cry, debate and create together to bring some perspective and humour to this hectic world,” showrunner, exec producer and writer Jen Flanz said in a statement. “I’m grateful for the support of Paramount, MTVE and Comedy Central and truly appreciative for Trevor, who is as wonderful to work with off camera as he is on.”

The show is nominated in the following categories: 

• Outstanding Picture Editing for Variety Programming
• Outstanding Technical Direction, Camerawork, Video Control For A Series
• Outstanding Writing for A Variety Series.
• Outstanding Variety Series
• Outstanding Short Form Nonfiction Or Reality Series.

When @thedailyshow gets nominated for 7 Emmys!!! 😱🤯😱Just wow!! Thank you for the incredible honour @TelevisionAcad! 🙏🏾 And a big congrats to @thedailyshow team and to Chris McCarthy and the whole Viacom / Comedy Central fam! I told you we work well together! 🙌🏾🕺🏾🔥 https://t.co/xPTwCessdj

— Trevor Noah (@Trevornoah) July 13, 2022

Honored to be nominated by the @TelevisionAcad for SEVEN #Emmys!

👏 Outstanding Variety Series
👏 Outstanding Writing for a Variety Series
👏 Outstanding Picture Editing For Variety Programming
👏 Outstanding Technical Direction, Camerawork, Video Control pic.twitter.com/LFbnPrU9Xc

— The Daily Show (@TheDailyShow) July 12, 2022

CONGRADULATIONS Trevor!!!!! 🥳🥰🤩🤗👏👏