2016 Emmy Contenders: Best Actor in a Comedy Series

2016 Contenders
Jeffrey Tambor "Transparent"
Anthony Anderson "black-ish"
Will Forte "The Last Man on Earth"
Aziz Ansari "Master of None"
William H. Macy "Shameless"
Don Cheadle "House of Lies"
Jim Parsons "The Big Bang Theory"
Johnny Galecki "The Big Bang Theory"
Gael Garcia Bernal "Mozart in the Jungle"
Rob Delaney "Catastrophe"
Chris Geere "You're the Worst"
Tommy Dewey "Casual"
Thomas Middleditch "Silicon Valley"
Colin Hanks "Life in Pieces"
Paul Rust "Love"
Andy Samberg "Brooklyn Nine-Nine"
Rob Lowe "The Grinder"
Fred Savage "The Grinder"
John Stamos "Grandfathered"
Josh Thomas "Please Like Me"
Patrick Stewart "Blunt Talk"
Fred Armisen "Portlandia"
Randall Park "Fresh Off the Boat"
Jerrod Carmichael "The Carmichael Show"
Zach Galifianakis "Baskets"
Greg Poehler "You Me Her"
Billy Eichner "Difficult People"
Bruce Campbell "Ash Vs. The Evil Dead"
Billy Gardell "Mike & Molly"
Jason Jones "The Detour"
Dwayne Johnson "Ballers"
Jack Black "The Brink"
Tim Robbins "The Brink"
Denis Leary "Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll"
Andy Daly "Review"
Ashton Kutcher "The Ranch"
Will Arnett "Flaked"

Commentary - If black-ish can rake up the buttload of nominations it deserves, then Anthony Anderson could challenge the front runner Jeffrey Tambor. Will Forte probably can't win if he couldn't get in for the pilot, and Aziz Ansari, while great, probably doesn't have the episode. William H. Macy, Don Cheadle, and The Big Bang Theory guys are the old stalwarts holding out for nostalgic votes. Gael Garcia Bernal hopes to ride the wave after his Globe win, and his fellow streaming stars including Tommy Dewey, Rob Delaney, Paul Rust, Greg Poehler, and Ashton Kutcher are hoping binge-watching turns into Emmy voters. Chris Geere is brilliant, Stamos, Savage, and Lowe are hoping for nostalgia as well, Samberg has been ignored for too long, Stewart is the only reason to watch Blunt Talk, Galifianakis is weird, Campbell is great, Leary is blazing, Carmichael goes for the hard issues, and Randall Park is a rock along with his co-star Constance Wu. As always, we'll have to wait and see...