By Anna Menta Published July 8, 2026, 12:57 p.m. ET Have you heard the good word? Connor Storrie just earned his first Emmy nomination in the Best Guest Actor in a Comedy category, for his Saturday Night Live hosting gig back in February. And he absolutely deserves that nomination and then some, for hosting one of the best SNL episodes of the season. (Honestly, the sketch where he played a stripper who’d been hit by a car—inspired by his own original character from his days as a professional clown—deserves it’s own Emmy category.) But as Heated Rivalry fans are well aware, neither Storrie nor his co-star Hudson Williams were eligible for the 2026 Emmy awards—despite the fact that Heated Rivalry was arguably the TV biggest show of the year—because shows financed outside of the U.S. are not