The show now joins the fabled ranks of dramas that were rewarded with top honors for their farewell seasons, a lineup that includes “The Sopranos,” “Breaking Bad” and “Game of Thrones.”

“It was a great sadness to end this show, but it was a great pleasure to do it,” Armstrong said, as he accepted his best writing Emmy.

Emmys voters were not as kind to other returning winners.

“The Bear,” the FX and Hulu series chronicling an oddball Chicago-based restaurant staff, took best comedy honors for its freshman season. “The Bear” bested “Ted Lasso,” the big-hearted Apple TV+ series that previously won best comedy two times in a row, which is widely believed to have wrapped its final season.

There were plenty of other new winners, too.

• Jeremy Allen White, who portrays the high-strung lead chef in “The Bear,” won his first Emmy for best actor in a comedy.

• Quinta Brunson, the creator of the ABC sitcom “Abbott Elementary,” won for best actress in a comedy, making her the first Black woman to win the award since Isabel Sanford won it in 1981 for “The Jeffersons.”

• In other major awards, Netflix’s “Beef” had a big night: It won for best limited series; Lee Sung Jin won for writing and direction; and Steven Yeun and Ali Wong won for acting.

• The three biggest shows of the night all notched multiple awards: “Succession” and “The Bear” each won six Emmys and “Beef” won five.

• “The Daily Show” won for best talk show, even though the host who was honored, Trevor Noah, left the Comedy Central late night program more than a year ago.

This was a deeply unusual Emmy Awards. Because of the monthslong screenwriter and actor strikes, the Emmys were moved from their usual September slot to mid-January, the first significant postponement of the award show since the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. Several nominated series have been off the air since 2022, providing several head-scratching moments during the telecast.

The January ceremony date also put the Emmys directly in the middle of Hollywood’s busiest awards show stretch. “Succession, “The Bear” and “Beef” were already honored at the Golden Globes last week, and at the Critics Choice Awards on Sunday night.

The Emmys telecast, which was hosted by Anthony Anderson, was even relegated to second-fiddle status on Monday night. The ceremony went head-to-head against an N.F.L. playoff game, as well as live results from the Iowa caucuses. The 2022 Emmys ceremony drew just 5.9 million viewers, a new low, and executives are bracing for the possibility of an even smaller audience this year.

Here are other members of the television industry who the program recognized:

• Angela Lansbury, the famed actress who starred in “Murder, She Wrote.”

• Angus Cloud, who portrayed a lovable drug dealer on the HBO show “Euphoria.”

• Barbara Walters, the pioneering TV news reporter.

• Bob Barker, the longtime host of “The Price Is Right.”

• David Jacobs, who created the soap opera “Dallas.”

• Harry Belafonte, the barrier-breaking performer in music, movies and TV.

• Leslie Jordan, the comic actor who was a cast member on “Will & Grace.”

• Mark Margolis, who played a fearsome former drug lord in “Breaking Bad.”

• Paul Reubens, the comic actor behind Pee-wee Herman.

• Richard Roundtree, the prolific actor who had recurring roles in “Heroes,” “Being Mary Jane” and “Family Reunion.”

• Ron Cephas Jones, who won two Emmys for his role on “This Is Us.”

• Stephen Boss, the dancer and reality star known as tWitch.

• Suzanne Somers, who gained fame on the hit sitcom “Three’s Company” before building a health and diet business empire.

“This is a show about family, but it’s also about when partisan politics and news coverage gets intertwined with divisive right-wing politics,” Armstrong said in his acceptance speech for best drama. “After four seasons of satire, that’s a problem I understand we have now fixed.”

“Succession” was a favorite to win big at the Emmys. At the Golden Globes last week, the show won best drama, and three of its actors won awards. In total, the show had 75 Emmy nominations across four seasons, with 19 wins overall.

In ways that often mirrored the succession dramas of real-life political and media families, the series charted the machinations of Logan (Brian Cox), the Roy family patriarch, and his four children, Connor (Alan Ruck), Kendall (Jeremy Strong), Shiv (Snook) and Roman (Culkin). What resulted was a nail-biting corporate drama, an incisive satire of the uber-wealthy and an inspiration for countless think pieces and memes.

The show beat the other HBO dramas “White Lotus” and “Last of Us,” as well as Netflix’s “The Crown” and the final season of AMC’s “Breaking Bad” spinoff, “Better Call Saul.” “The Crown” still has one more opportunity to win for its final season, the second installment of which debuted just last month.

In total, the show won six Emmys on the night, including the award for best actor in a comedy for White, best supporting comedy actress for Edebiri and best supporting comedy actor for Moss-Bachrach.

“I just want to thank restaurants as a whole, hospitality as a whole,” Matty Matheson, who plays Neil Fak in “The Bear” and is himself a chef, began as the cast and creative team gathered on stage to accept the award for best comedy. Then Moss-Bachrach swooped in and gave him a long kiss on the lips. “I love you, Ebon,” Matheson said after he recovered.

Season 1 of “The Bear” became a breakout show the summer of 2022, a surprise to many given its grubby aesthetic and lack of A-list cast members. But the clash of combustible egos and realistic depictions of restaurant work — with its constant pressure, impossible deadlines and “yes, chef”s — proved irresistible for viewers. (White’s signature tight white T-shirt — and now ubiquitous Calvin Klein ads — also likely didn’t hurt.)

Although the show’s critically acclaimed second season came to Hulu way back in June, only its first season, which debuted in summer 2022, was up for Emmy consideration this time; the window of eligibility for Monday’s ceremony, which ran from June 1, 2022, to May 31, 2023, was an unusually long time ago. (The ceremony itself, originally scheduled for September, was delayed because of last year’s writer and actor strikes.) The show’s Golden Globe win last week for best comedy was for its second season.

Rest assured, there are more “yes, chef”s on the way soon: The show was renewed in November for a third season.

I don’t have any quibbles with the particular winners per se, but this feels like such a sweep-ish Emmys — “The Bear” x 5, “Beef” x 5, John Oliver x 2, “Succession” x 5 (so far) … it’s a lot of repetition!

America, what did you miss over the year and a half since the last Emmys? Just four shows, apparently! (Don’t even get me started on the nomination snubs of “Reservation Dogs,” et al.)

“The biggest thank you is to someone who won’t understand anything that I’m saying at the moment, but I carried her with me in this last season and really it was her who carried me,” Snook said during her emotional acceptance speech.

“It’s very easy to act when you’re pregnant because you have got hormones raging,” she continued. “It was the proximity of her life growing inside me that gave me the strength to do this and this performance.”

In winning the Emmy, Snook beat Sharon Horgan of “Bad Sisters,” Keri Russell of “The Diplomat,” Bella Ramsey of “The Last of Us,” Melanie Lynskey of “Yellowjackets” and Elisabeth Moss of “The Handmaid’s Tale.”

“Succession” was favored to win big heading into the 75th Emmy Awards, earning 27 nominations in 2023 alone. The series earned six awards on the night, including best drama; best actor in a drama for Kieran Culkin; best supporting actor in a drama for Matthew Macfadyen; best writing in a drama for the show’s creator, Jesse Armstrong; and a win for best directing in a drama.

Across four seasons, the show charted the machinations of Logan (Brian Cox), the Roy family patriarch, and his four children, Connor (Alan Ruck), Kendall (Jeremy Strong), Shiv (Snook) and Roman (Culkin). What resulted was a nail-biting corporate drama, an incisive satire of the uber-wealthy and an inspiration for countless think pieces and memes.

The show earned a total of 75 Emmy nominations, finishing with 19 wins.

“I’ve got to thank Jesse Armstrong for being a brilliant writer, showrunner and gentleman — thank you for ‘Succession,’ thank you for everything,” Culkin said during his acceptance speech.

He also told his wife from the stage that he wanted more children: “You said maybe if I win,” he said.

Culkin was favored to win the Emmy for his much-lauded performance as Roman, the sardonic, coarse, funny and emotionally stunted child of Logan and a potential heir to the Waystar Royco media empire. Culkin also won the Golden Globe last week for best performance by an actor in a dramatic television series.

After his first role as a cousin in “Home Alone,” Culkin earned a Golden Globe nomination at 19 for his role as Igby in “Igby Goes Down.” He also starred twice in the Kenneth Lonergan play “This Is Our Youth” — once in 2002 in London, and again in 2014 at the Cort Theater (now the James Earl Jones Theater) in New York.

In winning best actor, Culkin beat his fellow “Succession” cast members Brian Cox and Jeremy Strong. Other nominees in the category included Jeff Bridges of “The Old Man,” Bob Odenkirk of “Better Call Saul” and Pedro Pascal of “The Last of Us.”

“Succession” was favored to win big heading into the 75th Emmy Awards, with 27 nominations for its fourth season. The series earned six awards on the night, including best drama; best actress in a drama for Sarah Snook; best supporting actor in a drama for Matthew Macfadyen; best writing in a drama for the show’s creator, Jesse Armstong; and a win for best directing in a drama.

Across four seasons, “Succession” charted the machinations of Logan (Cox), the Roy family patriarch, and his four children, Connor (Alan Ruck), Kendall (Strong), Shiv (Sarah Snook) and Roman (Culkin). What resulted was a nail-biting corporate drama, an incisive satire of the uber-wealthy and inspiration for countless think pieces and memes.

The show finished with 75 Emmy nominations and 19 wins.

To all the viewers too young to remember “Ally McBeal,” that skit was pretty much what it felt like at the time to watch “Ally McBeal.”

Personally, I was hoping we’d see a realistically aged Dancing Baby.

With his Emmy for “Elton John Live: Farewell From Dodger Stadium,” which streamed on Disney+, John became the 19th person to gain the title. The rather elite club includes Audrey Hepburn, Rita Moreno, Mel Brooks, Whoopi Goldberg, John Legend, Jennifer Hudson and Viola Davis.

John, 76, was not present at the Emmys ceremony because of a knee operation, said Ben Winston, an executive producer of the show who accepted the award on John’s behalf.

John said in a statement that he was “incredibly humbled” by the honor.

“The journey to this moment has been filled with passion, dedication and the unwavering support of my fans all around the world,” he said in the statement. “Tonight is a testament to the power of the arts and the joy that it brings to all our lives. Thank you to everyone who has supported me throughout my career, I am incredibly grateful.”

The live concert, which took place at the Los Angeles stadium in 2022, carried echoes of the pop star’s pair of shows at the same venue in 1975, when, in his late 20s, John played hits such as “Saturday Night’s Alright for Fighting,” “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road” and “Bennie and the Jets” to a sold-out venue.

“Beef” enjoyed another hugely successful evening on Monday: Ali Wong and Steven Yeun both won in their acting categories, and Lee Sung Jin also won a pair of Emmys for writing and directing.

“A lot of the suicidal ideation in this show was based on stuff that I and some of the folks up here have struggled with over the years,” Lee said. “And so I’m really grateful and humbled by everyone who watched the show and reached out about their own personal struggles — it’s very life affirming. So thank you.”

“I feel like we live in a world designed to kind of keep us separate,” he continued. “You know, even here, some of us go home with trophies, other people don’t. And I think for some of us, when we live in a world like this, you begin to think that there’s no way anyone can ever understand you or like you, or much less — even, no potential at being loved. And so the greatest joy of working on ‘Beef’ has truly been working with the folks up here who love so unconditionally.”

“Beef” was the brainchild of the Lee and was his first outing as a series creator and showrunner. The show tracks a feud between Danny Cho (Yeun), a struggling handyman, and Amy Lau (Wong), a wealthy entrepreneur, that begins with a road rage episode but quickly becomes an all-consuming obsession for both unhappy characters.

Lee was involved in a real life road-rage confrontation that inspired the show. But “Beef” found resonance with audiences for other reasons, too.

“It really is about how hard it is to be alive,” Lee told The New York Times in April, when the 10-episode series debuted.

Ali Wong picks up a (well-deserved) acting Emmy for “Beef,” which has won several awards in its category, like “The Bear” and “Succession.” Spoiler alert for the big awards of the night?

And sure enough, “Beef” wins best limited series. One down …

The series, which Wong, better known as a comedian, also executive produced, was widely acclaimed by critics and award voters. It won the Emmy for best limited series and received a total of 13 nominations.

As she walked on to the stage in a shimmering multicolored dress, Wong thanked the cast and crew of “Beef” and her parents before tearing up as she thanked her daughters.

“Thank you for inspiring me, this is for you,” Wong said.

Best Actress, Limited Series or Movie

Ali Wong

Wins best lead actress for “Beef.”

“I want to say thank you to Danny for teaching me that judgment and shame is a lonely place, but compassion and grace is where we can all meet,” Yeun said during his acceptance speech.

Lee Sung Jin’s dramedy series cleaned up on Monday night, winning awards for writing and directing, and also taking the award for best limited series. Wong also won best actress in a limited series. Joseph Lee and Maria Bello also earned nominations for their roles.

Yeun, a veteran of “The Walking Dead,” entered as a favorite to win his first Emmy. He beat out the nominees Taron Egerton (“Black Bird”), Kumail Nanjiani (“Welcome to Chippendales”), Evan Peters (“Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story”), Michael Shannon (“George & Tammy”) and Daniel Radcliffe (“Weird: The Al Yankovic Story”).

Best Actor, Limited Series or Movie

Steven Yeun

Wins best lead actor for “Beef.”

Outstanding Variety Special (Live)

Elton John Live: Farewell From Dodger Stadium (Disney+)

Wins best outstanding live variety special.

Directing for a Drama Series

Mark Mylod

Wins best direction for “Succession” (“Connor’s Wedding”).

Writing for a Limited Series, Movie or Drama Special

Lee Sung Jin

Wins best writing for “Beef” (“The Birds Don’t Sing, They Screech in Pain”).

Writing for a Drama Series

Jesse Armstrong

Wins best writing for “Succession” (“Connor’s Wedding”).

The actors reminded the audience that despite the show’s cultural impact and five-season run, it never received a single Emmy nomination.

“We were never even nominated,” Campbell said, “despite 132 episodes, huge ratings and being in syndication so much that it’s a little hard seeing the ’90s Spanx-less version of myself every night.”

“Cheers,” on the other hand, had heaps of recognition, with 117 Emmy nominations and 28 wins over its 11 seasons.

Surrounding a recreation of the famed Boston bar where much of the series was set, Ted Danson, Kelsey Grammer, Rhea Perlman, John Ratzenberger and George Wendt reunited more than 30 years after the final episode aired, presenting the awards for directing and writing of a comedy series.

“Why don’t you just think of it as a long overdue class reunion?” said Ratzenberger, who played Cliff Clavin, the trivia-expert letter carrier.

Earlier in the show, Michael Imperioli and Lorraine Bracco appeared as a nod to “The Sopranos,” and later on, actors from “Ally McBeal” are expected to have their moment.

Supporting Actor, Limited Series or Movie

Paul Walter Hauser

Wins best supporting actor for “Black Bird.”

Directing for a Limited Series or Movie

Lee Sung Jin

Wins best direction for “Beef” (“Figure of Light”).

“I accept this award on behalf of every Black and brown woman who has gone unheard, yet overpoliced, like Glenda Cleveland, like Sandra Bland, like Breonna Taylor,” she said. “As an artist, my job is to speak truth to power. And, baby, I’ma do it till the day I die. Mama, I won!”

Going into Monday night, Nash-Betts had received five Emmy nominations, including nominations for best actress in a comedy for her role as Denise “Didi” Ortley in HBO’s “Getting On.”

In “Dahmer — Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story,” a show about the serial killer who murdered 17 boys and men between 1978 and 1991, Nash-Betts plays Glenda Cleveland, Dahmer’s neighbor. In the show, Cleveland, who is based on a real person, alerts the police about Dahmer’s violent behavior but is systematically ignored.

In winning the Emmy, Nash-Betts beat fellow nominees Annaleigh Ashford of “Welcome to Chippendales,” Maria Bello of “Beef,” Claire Danes of “Fleishman Is in Trouble,” Juliette Lewis of “Welcome to Chippendales,” Camila Morrone of “Daisy Jones & the Six” and Merritt Wever of “Tiny Beautiful Things.”

He didn’t actually beat John Oliver, whose Sunday night satirical comedy program, “Last Week Tonight,” had won the category each of the previous seven years. Rather, the Emmys bumped “Last Week Tonight” to a new category, scripted variety series, which replaced the previous variety sketch series category — not that it stopped Oliver, who proceeded to win anyway.

“I told you we would beat John Oliver if he wasn’t in our category!” Noah exclaimed during his acceptance speech. “We did it! We got rid of John Oliver!”

The shows were dumped into the same category this awards under scripted variety series, described by the Television Academy as shows that “are primarily scripted or feature loosely scripted improv and consist of discrete scenes, musical numbers, monologues, comedy stand-ups, sketches, etc.”

The award for talk series will now honor traditional late-night shows like “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” and “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” The Television Academy deemed Oliver unfit because much of his show is scripted, while other late night hosts engage in lengthy, unscripted conversations.

It’s a different category, but still another win for Oliver. “Last Week Tonight With John Oliver” scored four total Emmy nominations.

Oliver’s show also beat HBO’s final season of “A Black Lady Sketch Show” for the award.

During his speech, Oliver thanked his staff, HBO and “our lawyers who are angry with us all the time.”

Before being rushed off the stage by Doris Hancox, Anthony Anderson’s mother, Oliver mentioned that he had promised to get his children Pokémon cards while in California. “And I don’t know where to get Pokémon cards in L.A.,” he said. “So, if anyone knows where to get Pokémon cards between here and L.A.X., it’s a significant problem that I’ve worked myself into.”

“Thank you to all those who have stayed close to me, especially in this past year,” he added. “Thank you for believing in me when I had trouble believing in myself.”

In “The Bear,” White, 32, plays a former rising star of the New York culinary scene who inherits a sandwich shop in Chicago from his dead brother. He has earned widespread acclaim for his raw performance.

His character was the emotional heart of the show’s first season, which became a surprise hit during the summer of 2022 despite its grubby milieu and the absence of A-listers in the cast. (Among the praise: its realistic depictions of restaurant work, grief and Chicago.)

The series, an FX production for Hulu, was also nominated for best comedy and has already been renewed for a third season. In winning the best actor Emmy, White unseated Jason Sudeikis, who had earned back-to-back wins in the category for his performance in the first two seasons of the Apple TV+ comedy “Ted Lasso” and had been nominated again for that show’s third and final season.

Applegate hasn’t announced any new projects since receiving a diagnosis of multiple sclerosis in 2021. (“It’s not like I came on the other side of it, like, ‘Woohoo, I’m totally fine,’” she told The Times in 2022, speaking of that diagnosis. “Acceptance? No. I’m never going to accept this. I’m pissed.”)

Applegate is the rare actress to have translated teen stardom (she was Kelly Bundy, long of leg and scant of prefrontal cortex, on “Married With Children”) into a robust adult career that includes the sitcoms “Samantha Who” and “Up All Night,” as well as the “Anchorman” and “Bad Moms” film franchises.