What Hannah Einbinder Really Said During Her Bleeped Emmys Speech on Hacks
Hannah Einbinder’s Emmys moment left viewers guessing after her Hacks acceptance speech got censored—here’s what happened behind that unexpected bleep.
Hacks star Hannah Einbinder finally got her Emmy, then promptly gave CBS a reason to hover over the bleep button. It was a win, a roast of her own losing streak, and a political mic drop all in one tidy speech.
The win she kept missing, until now
Einbinder picked up her first Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series for Hacks, where she plays Ava Daniels, a struggling comedy writer who keeps getting pulled deeper into Deborah Vance world. This was her fourth nomination for the show after striking out three times before, which she leaned into immediately.
What she actually said on stage
Einbinder opened by poking fun at herself, saying she had been pretty committed to the bit that it is cooler to keep losing... but, fine, winning is pretty cool too, and honestly still kind of punk rock. From there, she got sincere. She thanked the Hacks creators for changing her life in every possible way, not just with a job but with real friendship and a found family. She shouted out Jean Smart with a vivid image, calling her the sun and saying she just stands in Jean warmth. Then she swept in the rest of the cast and crew. Mid-thanks, she tossed in a quick, self-deprecating aside about paying the difference and apologized, the kind of loose, in-the-moment riff you only hear when someone is buzzing on adrenaline and the wrap music is looming.
And then came the line that got clipped for broadcast:
"Go Birds, Free Palestine and Fuck ICE!"
She followed it with a simple thank you and walked off with her first Emmy.
Why you heard a bleep
Because it was a live show on CBS. Networks have to follow broadcast standards, which means certain words cannot go out on air. When Einbinder dropped the F-bomb, CBS hit the censor button. The rest of her sign-off made it through clean.