For best actor in a comedy winner Jim Parsons, the hottest inquiry of the night was how his Big Bang Theory alter ego would have reacted to the win. "[Sheldon] would have said he knew, but he would have been secretly thrilled and too nervous to talk," Parsons told TV Guide Network the night of his first Emmy win. "He would have said you got it right, you know, something horribly tacky and pompous, but I don't think that way."