Candice Bergen got her claws out at the 2024 Primetime Emmy Awards . The actress, 78, took the Emmys stage to present the award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series , a honor she won five times for her portrayal of hard-nosed “FYI” news broadcaster Murphy Brown on the TV series of the same name. Before handing out the trophy, Bergen took a swipe at Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance while alluding to one of the most famous moments from “Murphy Brown.
” “For 11 years, I had the tremendous privilege of playing the lead in a comedy series called Murphy Brown,” Bergen said. “I was surrounded by brilliant and funny actors, had the best scripts to work with, and in one classic moment, my character was attacked by Vice President Dan Quayle when Murphy became pregnant and decided to raise the baby as a single mother.” “Oh how far we’ve come,” Bergen quipped.
“Today, a Republican candidate for vice president would never attack a woman for having kids,” she added, sarcastically. “ “So as they say, my work here is done. Meow!” Bergen was, of course, referring to Vance’s now-infamous remarks about “childless cat ladies.
” In July 2021, Vance appeared on Fox News and told Tucker Carlson that the US was being run by “a bunch of childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives and the choices that they’ve made and so they want to make the rest of the country miserable, too. “ Bergen was the second person at the 2024 .