Hacks' Kaitlin Olson

After earning a guest actress Emmy nom for the Max series, she returns with a scene-stealing comedy routine that brings her character's inner angsty teenager to the stage When The Good Place creator Mike Schur called Kaitlin Olson to convince her to take a guest role on an upcoming comedy series back in 2020 - the passion project he was pro ducing from a trio of showrunners about a legendary female comedian staging a career resurgence - the actress says she was a little hesitant. What begins as a low-energy list of jokes poking fun at Deborah's bad parent ing, each ending with a recurring line in which DJ calls her mom the C-word, morphs into a star-making performance for the ama teur stand-up comic - with her crass refrain becoming a crowd-pleasing catchword. While her co-star - and real-life husband - Rob McElhenney is the first It's Always Sunny player to win an Emmy since the comedy premiered (for FX's Welcome to Wrexham, which earned best unstructured reality program this year), Olson says there's no Emmy competition among co-stars and EPs Charlie Day and Glenn Howerton.