Final Week Tonight With John Oliver took dwelling the award for greatest scripted selection collection Sunday on the 76th Emmy Awards.

The win was the second straight within the class for Final Week Tonight, which can also be as many awards as have been given out for greatest scripted selection collection. It received out over NBC’s Saturday Night time Stay — the one different nominee within the class. 

Sunday’s win was additionally the ninth straight for the present in its collection class — earlier than shifting to scripted selection, Final Week Tonight received seven straight Emmys for greatest selection speak collection.

The TV Academy created the class for the seventy fifth Emmys to higher differentiate between speak exhibits — “packages the place a good portion of the working time consists of unscripted interviews or panel discussions between a number/hosts and visitor celebrities or personalities,” within the academy’s definition — and exhibits whose “principal intent … is scripted or carried out leisure.”

In accepting the Emmy, Oliver thanked HBO “for not canceling us during the last decade. That was by no means a assure, so please stick with it.”

He additionally thanked his youngsters — although he mistakenly known as his son Hudson “Husband” at first (“That’s going to come back again to hang-out me”) — and, towards the top of his speech, the household canine. Because the orchestra started to play him off with a considerably mournful tune, he famous the music was acceptable as a result of “we needed to say goodbye to her.”

“I really feel like Sarah MacLachlan proper now,” Oliver stated. “She was an incredible canine. This isn’t only for her — that is for all canine. You’re superb women, you’re superb boys, and also you all deserve a deal with!”