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Why Getting Nominated For An Emmy Made Tiffany Haddish Feel Better Than Actually Winning It · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest. Tiffany Hattish was honored
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Speaker 1: to pick up the second Emmy nomination she got for
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Speaker 1: Outstanding Variety Special for her Netflix comedy special Like Mitzvah.
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Speaker 1: She feels like she already won because of what she
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Speaker 1: received after the nod and the mail, dozens of handmade
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Speaker 1: cards from foster kids very close to her heart. Tiffany
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Speaker 1: herself was in the foster care system as a child,
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Speaker 1: which inspired her to zoom with different kids in various
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Speaker 1: group homes around the country during this pandemic. She was
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Speaker 1: telling Jimmy Fallon she said, I went to my mailbox
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Speaker 1: and there were forty messages, forty little handwritten notes and
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Speaker 1: cards congratulating me, and they'd drawn them and colored them.
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Speaker 1: That was the best award ever. If I feel down,
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Speaker 1: I just opened those up and I read them. It's
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Speaker 1: better than any trophy I could ever get. To be
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Speaker 1: recognized by our youth, our future. The seventy second Emmy
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