‘Ted Lasso,’ Kansas City’s Jason Sudeikis lead Emmy Award comedy nominations with 20

For the second year in a row, Jason Sudeikis and his hit series, “Ted Lasso,” led the comedy pack with 20 Emmy Award nominations on Tuesday.

The show about a kind-hearted coach of a British soccer team is up for best comedy series and actor (Sudeikis) — they both won last year.

Three of the show’s stars are vying for best supporting actress (Hannah Waddingham, who won last year, Sarah Niles and Juno Temple), and three more are up for best supporting actor (Brett Goldstein, last year’s winner, as well as Toheeb Jimoh and Nick Mohammed).

Other nominations are for guest actors — bringing the total nominations for acting to 10 — as well as directing, writing and editing categories.

The HBO drama “Succession,” pretty much the polar opposite of “Ted Lasso,” about a ruthless family and their media empire, received a leading 25 Emmy nominations Tuesday. But it has a landmark rival in “Squid Game,” the first non-English language series to vie for television’s top honor.

“Squid Game,” a South Korea-set drama in which the poor are fodder for brutal games, earned a best drama nomination and 13 other bids for September’s Emmy Awards. “Succession” captured the best drama trophy and eight other awards when it last vied for Emmys, in 2020.

“The White Lotus” was the most-honored limited series, with 20 nods, including nominations for almost its entire cast, followed by “Dopesick” with 14.

Newcomers “Only Murders in the Building” (17 nominations), “Severance” (14), “Abbott Elementary” (seven) and “Yellowjackets” (seven) also had strong showings.

Sudeikis, who grew up in Overland Park, created his character as a fish-out-of-water American football coach transplanted to a London soccer club. But he and his series co-creators fleshed out Ted Lasso into a multi-faceted man facing his own demons as he tries his best to stay upbeat for his team.

Last year, for its freshman season,“Ted Lasso” also racked up 20 Emmy nominations, a record for a new comedy series. It was competing against itself in a number of categories and wound up winning seven awards.

The Emmy Awards ceremony will air at 7 p.m. Sept. 12 on NBC.

The first season of “Ted Lasso” debuted in August 2020 on Apple TV+, and Season 2 came out last July. But don’t expect a summer premiere this year for the third and final season.

Production still hasn’t wrapped — Kansas Citians know this all too well since Sudeikis had to miss his regular gig as host of last month’s Big Slick Celebrity Weekend. British GQ and other observers predict a season premiere in October, or later.

Emmy nominations

Partial list of nominees for the 2022 prime-time Emmy Awards, announced Tuesday by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. For the complete list, visit Emmys.com:

Comedy Series: “Abbott Elementary”; “Barry”; “Curb Your Enthusiasm”; “Hacks”; “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel”; “Only Murders in the Building”; “Ted Lasso”; “What We Do in the Shadows.”

Actor, Comedy Series: Donald Glover, “Atlanta”; Bill Hader, “Barry”; Nicholas Holt, “The Great”; Jason Sudeikis, “Ted Lasso” Steve Martin, “Only Murders in the Building”; Martin Short, “Only Murders in the Building.”

Actress, Comedy Series: Rachel Brosnahan, “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel”; Quinta Brunson, “Abbott Elementary”; Kaley Cuoco, “The Flight Attendant”; Elle Fanning, “The Great”; Issa Rae, “Insecure”; Jean Smart, “Hacks.”

Drama Series: “Better Call Saul”; “Euphoria”; “Ozark”; “Severance”; “Squid Game”; “Stranger Things”; “Succession”; “Yellowjackets.”

Actor, Drama Series: Jason Bateman, “Ozark”; Brian Cox, “Succession”; Lee Jung-jae, “Squid Game”; Bob Odenkirk, “Better Call Saul”; Adam Scott, “Severance”; Jeremy Strong, “Succession.”

Actress, Drama Series: Jodie Comer, “Killing Eve”; Laura Linney, “Ozark”; Melanie Lynskey, “Yellowjackets”; Sandra Oh, “Killing Eve”; Reese Witherspoon, “The Morning Show”; Zendaya, “Euphoria.”

Limited or Anthology Series: “Dopesick”; “The Dropout”; “Inventing Anna”; “The White Lotus”; “Pam & Tommy.”

Variety Talk Series: “The Daily Show with Trevor Noah”; “Jimmy Kimmel Live”; “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver”; “Late Night with Seth Meyers;” “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.”

Actor, Limited Series or TV Movie: Colin Firth, “The Staircase”; Andrew Garfield, “Under the Banner of Heaven”; Oscar Isaac, “Scenes from a Marriage”; Michael Keaton, “Dopesick”; Himesh Patel, “Station Eleven”; Sebastian Stan, “Pam & Tommy.”

Actress, Limited Series or TV Movie: Toni Collette, “The Staircase”; Julia Garner, “Inventing Anna”; Lily James, “Pam & Tommy”; Sarah Paulson, “Impeachment: American Crime Story”; Margaret Qualley, “MAID”; Amanda Seyfried, “The Dropout.”

Supporting Actor, Comedy Series: Anthony Carrigan, “Barry”; Brett Goldstein, “Ted Lasso”; Toheeb Jimoh, “Ted Lasso”; Nick Mohammed, “Ted Lasso”; Tony Shalhoub, “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel”; Tyler James Williams, “Abbott Elementary”; Henry Winkler, “Barry”; Bowen Yang, “Saturday Night Live.”

Supporting Actress, Comedy Series: Alex Borstein, “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel”; Hannah Einbinder, “Hacks”; Janelle James, “Abbott Elementary”; Kate McKinnon, “Saturday Night Live”; Sarah Niles, “Ted Lasso”; Sheryl Lee Ralph, “Abbott Elementary”; Juno Temple, “Ted Lasso”; Hannah Waddingham, “Ted Lasso.”

Guest Actor, Drama Series: Adrien Brody, “Succession”; James Cromwell, “Succession”; Colman Domingo, “Euphoria”; Arian Moayed, “Succession”; Tom Pelphrey, “Ozark”; Alexander Skarsgård, “Succession.”

Guest Actress, Drama Series: Hope Davis, “Succession”; Marcia Gay Harden, “The Morning Show”; Martha Kelly, “Euphoria”; Sanaa Lathan, “Succession”; Harriet Walter, “Succession”; Lee You-mi, “Squid Game.”

Supporting Actor, Drama Series: Nicholas Braun, “Succession”; Billy Crudup, “The Morning Show”; Kieran Culkin, “Succession”; Park Hae-soo, “Squid Game”; Matthew Macfadyen, “Succession”; John Turturro, “Severance”; Christopher Walken, “Severance”; Oh Yeong-su, “Squid Game.”

Supporting Actress, Drama Series: Patricia Arquette, “Severance”; Julia Garner, “Ozark”; Jung Ho-yeon, “Squid Game”; Christina Ricci, “Yellowjackets”; Rhea Seehorn. “Better Call Saul”; J. Smith-Cameron, “Succession”; Sarah Snook, “Succession”; Sydney Sweeney, “Euphoria.”

Supporting Actor, Limited Series or TV Movie: Murray Bartlett, “The White Lotus”; Jake Lacy, “The White Lotus”; Will Poulter, “Dopesick”; Seth Rogen, “Pam & Tommy”; Peter Skarsgård, “Dopesick”; Michael Stuhlbarg, “Dopesick”; Steve Zahn, “The White Lotus.”

Supporting Actress, Limited Series or TV Movie: Connie Britton, “The White Lotus,” Jennifer Coolidge, “The White Lotus”; Alexandra Daddario, “The White Lotus”; Kaitlyn Dever, “Dopesick”; Natasha Rothwell, “The White Lotus”; Sydney Sweeney, “The White Lotus”; Mare Winningham, “Dopesick.”

Television Movie: “Chip ’n’ Dale: Rescue Rangers”; “Ray Donovan: The Movie”; “Reno 911!: The Hunt For QAnon”; “The Survivor”; “Zoey’s Extraordinary Christmas.”

Guest Actor, Comedy Series: Jerrod Carmichael, “Saturday Night Live”; Bill Hader, “Curb Your Enthusiasm”; James Lance, “Ted Lasso”; Nathan Lane, “Only Murders in the Building”; Christopher McDonald, “Hacks”; Sam Richardson, “Ted Lasso.”

Guest Actress, Comedy Series: Jane Adams, “Hacks”; Harriet Sansom Harris, “Hacks”; Jane Lynch, “Only Murders in the Building”; Laurie Metcalf, “Hacks”; Kaitlin Olson, “Hacks”; Harriet Walter, “Ted Lasso.”

Structured Reality Program: “Antiques Roadshow”; “Fixer Upper: Welcome Home”; “Love is Blind”; “Queer Eye”; “Shark Tank.”

Unstructured Reality Program: “Below Deck Mediterranean”; “Cheer”; “Love on the Spectrum”; “RuPaul’s Drag Race Untucked”; “Selling Sunset.”

Reality or Competition Program: “The Amazing Race”; “Lizzo’s Watch Out for the Big Grrrls”; “Nailed It!”; “RuPaul’s Drag Race”; “Top Chef”; “The Voice.”

Variety Sketch Show: “A Black Lady Sketch Show”; “Saturday Night Live.”

Includes reporting from The Star’s wire services.