'SNL' wins big for season 50 at the Creative Arts Emmys. Obama, Kimmel and Lamar also take trophies

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Barack Obama won his third career Emmy and Kendrick Lamar won his second, while the 50th season of “Saturday Night Live” was the biggest winner with 11 on the second night of the Creative Arts Emmy Awards.

Lamar and Tony Russell won for the music direction of his Super Bowl halftime show. He won his first Emmy in 2022 as a performer at the Super Bowl halftime headlined by Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg.

Obama won a star-studded documentary narrator category that also included Tom Hanks, Idris Elba and David Attenborough. He won the same award in 2022 and 2023.

Neither Lamar nor Obama was at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles to accept his Emmy. Neither were expected to be, at a show that despite several high-profile winners including Jimmy Kimmel, Conan O'Brien and Alan Cumming is primarily devoted to behind-the-scenes crew members a week before TV's stars take the same stage for the bigger Emmys ceremony.

Presenter Jordan Klepper laughed along with the crowd as he said, “Apparently, Barack Obama couldn’t be here tonight” after announcing the winner.

“SNL 50: The Anniversary Special,” the pinnacle of a season-long celebration for the NBC sketch institution, won seven Emmys, including awards for its directing, writing, hairstyling and editing. A pop-up immersive experience tied to the special won an Emmy for emerging media and regular episodes of the show won three more.

HBO's “Pee-wee as Himself” won four awards including best documentary, posthumously giving its star and subject Paul Reubens, who died in 2023, his first primetime Emmy.

O'Brien an Emmy for his travel series, “Conan O’Brien Must Go,” taking his career total to six. And while he didn't get one personally for the show, Netflix's “Conan O’Brien: The Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize For American Humor” beat out football halftime shows from Lamar and Beyoncé to win best variety special.

Beyoncé did win a previously announced special Emmy for the costumes on her Christmas Day “Beyoncé Bowl” on Netflix.

Kimmel, who has hosted both the Oscars and the Emmys multiple times, was here to accept his fourth primetime Emmy, for best host of a game show for his work on “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire.”

He thanked the show’s late original host Regis Philbin for making “Millionaire” a cultural phenomenon.

“Regis was the best at this,” Kimmel said backstage. “It is exciting to have this and to know that he has this same Emmy in his family’s collection somewhere.”

“Jeopardy” won best game show, while Cumming won best host of a reality show for “The Traitors.”

The two-night Creative Arts Emmys hands out nearly 100 awards in hyper-specific categories that can bring oddities. Like the Grammys and Oscars winning Emmys, as each did Sunday.

The CBS Grammys telecast won for its choreography, while ABC's Oscars telecast — also hosted by O'Brien — won for its production design.

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting was honored with the Television Academy's Governors Award even as it winds down its nearly 60-year work after the U.S. government withdrew funding from the institution that has helped pay for PBS, NPR, 1,500 local radio and TV stations

The award goes to a person or entity “made a profound, transformational and long-lasting contribution to the arts and/or science of television.”

“Even an act of Congress can not erase an indelible legacy,” Henry Louis Gates Jr., host of “Finding Your Roots” on PBS, said during the presentation.

“Queer Eye” won best structured reality show, while “Love on the Spectrum” won best unstructured reality show.

The Creative Arts show runs quickly and efficiently — 47 awards are handed out on Sunday aloe in about 2 1/2 hours — but the atmosphere is loose. Swearing is allowed because of the lack of TV, as Kimmel showed when he told nominee Will Ferrell to shut up during his speech.

“This is the Emmys for the people that the people who run the Emmys don’t think should be seen on network TV,” presenter Sarah Silverman said when she opened the show as a presenter.

The two nights are edited down into one show that will air on TV on FXX on Saturday. The following day, the 77th Primetime Emmy Awards, hosted by Nate Bargatze, will air live on CBS.

While Sunday honored variety, documentary and reality TV, scripted series had the stage on Saturday.

“The Studio” won nine early Emmys including best guest actor in a comedy for Bryan Cranston, making it the front-runner to end up with the biggest total after next Sunday's main show.

“Severance” was tops among dramas with six awards, including best guest actress in a drama for Merritt Wever.

“The Penguin” pulled in eight in the limited series categories, and Julie Andrews won her third Emmy at age 89 for her voice-over work on “Bridgerton,”

This story has been corrected to show that Barack Obama has won three Emmys, not two, and that Conan O'Brien won one Emmy Sunday, not two.

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FILE - Kendrick Lamar accepts the award for album of the year for "GNX" during the BET Awards on June 9, 2025, at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello, File)

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Jimmy Kimmel poses in the press room with the award for host for a game show for "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" during night two of the Creative Arts Emmy Awards on Sunday, Sept. 7, 2025, at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)

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Maciej Kuciara, left, and Emily Yang pose in the press room with the award for outstanding innovation in emerging media programming for "White Rabbit" during night two of the Creative Arts Emmy Awards on Sunday, Sept. 7, 2025, at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)

The team from "White Rabbit" pose in the press room with the award for outstanding innovation in emerging media programming during night two of the Creative Arts Emmy Awards on Sunday, Sept. 7, 2025, at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)

Jimmy Kimmel poses in the press room with the award for host for a game show for "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" during night two of the Creative Arts Emmy Awards on Sunday, Sept. 7, 2025, at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)

NEW CHANDIGARH, India (AP) — Debutant spinner Manav Suthar took seven wickets as India beat Afghanistan by an innings and 300 runs Monday on day three of the one-off test.

Suthar claimed 6-33 in the first innings to help give India a mammoth 412-run lead and took 1-29 in the second to finish with 7-62.

After India enforced the follow-on, Washington Sundar took 4-36 while Kuldeep Yadav picked 3-30 as Afghanistan was bowled out for 112 runs in 35.5 overs.

India had scored 564-8 in the first innings, while Afghanistan was out for 152 earlier on day three. It was India’s biggest win in tests, by innings. Only West Indies has scored a bigger win on Indian soil — it beat India by an innings and 336 runs at Kolkata in 1958.

Afghanistan had resumed Monday at 113-5 in its first innings and lost Azmatullah Omarzai — bowled by Prasidh Krishna (3-37) — in the fifth over. Suthar then picked up two wickets in two overs, having Sharafuddin Ashraf (11) caught behind and bowling Rahmat Shah around his legs, completing his maiden five-wicket haul.

Suthar’s 6-33 was the second-best figures for India on test debut, after Narendra Hirwani’s 8-61 against West Indies in 1988. He also became just the second Indian spinner to take a five-wicket haul in his maiden test innings after Amit Mishra’s 5-71 against Australia in 2008.

Shah was Afghanistan’s leading scorer with 60 off 135 balls, including nine fours and a six. It was the first test half-century for an Afghan batter against India.

Afghanistan’s innings was wrapped up before lunch, with its last five wickets falling for 39.

The visitors didn’t fare any better in the second innings. The openers started well – Sediqullah Atal scored 42 off 80 and put on 42 for the first wicket, before Mohammed Siraj trapped Abdil Malik (8) lbw.

Atal and Rahmanullah Gurbaz (24) added 32 before Afghanistan collapsed from 74-1 to 112 all out in 15.5 overs on either side of tea.

Yadav-Sundar ran through, sharing seven wickets, with both set batters departing before the tea break.

The lower order didn’t resist at all. Rahmat Shah scored 13, with none of the other batters reaching double digits.

It is only the second test between the teams. India hosted Afghanistan’s inaugural test in Bengaluru and the home side won by an innings and 262 runs.

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Afghanistan's Abdul Malik asks for the third umpire's review on day three of the cricket test match between Afghanistan and India in New Chandigarh, India, Monday, June 8, 2026. (AP Photo/Ashwini Bhatia)

India's Mohammed Siraj, second right, celebrates the wicket of Afghanistan's Abdul Malik on day three of the cricket test match between Afghanistan and India in New Chandigarh, India, Monday, June 8, 2026. (AP Photo/Ashwini Bhatia)

India's Manav Suthar reacts after bowling a delivery on day three of the cricket test match between Afghanistan and India in New Chandigarh, India, Monday, June 8, 2026. (AP Photo/Ashwini Bhatia)