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LOS ANGELES — Sheryl Lee Ralph stopped the Emmy show on Monday to accept the Best Supporting Actress Comedy Award for “Abbott Elementary” for a short but evocative affirmative song.

“I’m an endangered species, but I don’t sing victim songs. I’m a woman, I’m an artist, and I know where my voice belongs,” she belted. And to those who questioned their dreams, he encouraged them, saying, “I’m here to tell you that this is what you believe.”

The audience, which included Lizzo and many of TV’s biggest stars, stood up and cheered for Ralph.

Lizzo herself offered her own emotional words of encouragement when she won the Best Competition Series Trophy award for “Lizzo’s Watch Out for the Big Grrrls.”

Lizzo and the “Lizzo’s Watch Out For the Big Grrrls” team will be honored with an Emmy Award for Outstanding Competitive Program for “Lizzo’s Watch Out For the Big Grrrls” at the 74th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles on Monday. was awarded. [ MARK TERRILL | Mark Terrill/Invision/AP ]

“When I was little, all I wanted to see was me in the media. Someone fat like me, black like me, beautiful like me,” said Music. the artist said.

Brett Goldstein for ‘Ted Russo’ won Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series for ‘Ted Russo’, while Matthew Macfadyen for ‘Succession’ and Julia Garner for ‘Ozark’ won Best Supporting Actor. .

Brett Goldstein received an Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series for “Ted Lasso” at the 74th Primetime Emmy Awards held Monday at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles. [ MARK TERRILL | Mark Terrill/Invision/AP ]

“It is a great pleasure and privilege for me to play this tremendous gift in this wonderful show,” said McFadden, who received the trophy for his role as a conspiratorial member of the Media Empire family.

Garner was one of the winners by taking advantage of covering all the bases by thanking her husband and others with on-screen messages.

Host Kenan Thompson kicked off the Emmy Awards with a tribute to television, dismissing Tik-Tok as a “little vertical TV” and criticizing series from “Friends” to “The Brady Bunch” to “Game of Thrones.” A musical number was added to pay homage to the theme song.

Host Kenan Thompson and dancers pay a tribute to “Friends” at the 74th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles on Monday. [ MARK TERRILL | Mark Terrill/Invision/AP ]

As the music stopped, Thompson offered a moment to drop the mic, announcing that Oprah Winfrey was the first presenter. Winfrey appeared on stage holding an Emmy statuette and declared “It’s a party!” for the night. The first award of the night went to Michael Keaton for his role in “Dope Sick.” Winfrey and Keaton hugged before she handed him the trophy.

“It means something,” Keaton said of the award for playing a compassionate doctor caught up in a patient by an addiction. He remembered the “magic” of being introduced and thanked his parents for not ridiculing his attempts at acting in his youth.

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Michael Keaton (right) accepts an Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Film for “Dopesick” at the 74th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards Monday at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles. Oprah Winfrey stares from the stage left. [ MARK TERRILL | Mark Terrill/Invision/AP ]

Amanda Seyfried won Best Actress in a Limited Series for “The Dropout” for her role as hapless Silicon Valley prodigy Elizabeth Holmes. She was grateful to her friends and her long list of colleagues, as well as her dog Finn.

Murray Bartlett won Best Supporting Actor for his limited series of tragicomedy “The White Lotus” set in a Hawaiian resort. Jennifer Coolidge, who won Best Supporting Actress on the show, delighted the audience by shimmying to the orchestral music that had interrupted her acceptance speech.

Murray Bartlett accepts an Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Anthology Series or Movie “White Lotus” at the 74th Primetime Emmy Awards Monday at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles. [ MARK TERRILL | Mark Terrill/Invision/AP ]

Monday’s show got off to a rousing start with some of the best drama contenders, including the violent dystopia “The Squid Game,” and the bleak workplace satires “Severance” and “Succession,” about a powerful and violent family. was very different. Even defending his champion, comedy contender “Ted Lasso,” took a dark turn in storytelling.

The Emmy Awards will be broadcast live on NBC and streamed on Peacock.

Those who arrived early on the show’s gold carpet exuded a fun and bright vibe despite temperatures reaching the ’80s and unseasonably humid downtown LA. Phil Dunster, arm in arm with his “Ted Lasso” co-star Brett Goldstein, stretched his head to look like the couple posing for a photo.

Glamour is back with a metallic sheen and plenty of bright colors as otherworldly Britt Lower, Old Hollywood’s Elle Fanning, and their fellow stars posed for photographers.

HBO’s ‘Succession’ and Apple TV+’s ‘Ted Lasso’, winners of the best drama series award in 2020, are considered front-runners for top series honors, but there are potential surprises. Netflix’s global sensation Squid Game is the first non-English drama series to win an Emmy Award.

On the comedy front, ABC’s critically acclaimed newcomer “Abbott Elementary” could become the first broadcast show to win the best comedy award since the network’s “Modern Family” in 2014. Also, this year he is one of the few candidates along with “Squid Game”. to field a significant number of candidates of color.

At the Emmy Awards’ Creative Arts ceremony earlier this month, a mockumentary-style show about an educator in a cash-strapped Philadelphia school won the trophy for Outstanding Comedy Series Casting. “Succession” won the casting award in the serial drama category.

Last year’s big winner, “The Crown,” was past the Emmy eligibility period, so he didn’t run this time. The story, which dramatizes Queen Elizabeth’s reign and her family life, returns for its fifth season in November as Britain mourns the death of its longest-reigning monarch, who died Thursday at the age of 96.

By LYNN ELBER, AP TV writer.

AP writer Beth Harris contributed to this report.