Succession creator Jesse Armstrong received an award Monday night for Best Drama Series at the Emmys 2022. In his acceptance speech, the 51-year-old took a dig at King Charles III.

“Big week for successions. New king in the UK… for us,” the UK native said while on stage at Los Angeles’ Microsoft Theater.

“Uh, evidently a little more voting involved in our winning than Prince Charles,” he continued, acknowledging the Television Academy’s votes that earned his team the award.

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Armstrong added, “I’m not saying we’re more legitimate in our position that he is. We’ll leave that up to other people. We are incredibly grateful to have this wonderful honor.”

Who is Jesse Armstrong?

Armstrong is a British author, screenwriter, and producer. He is a co-creator of the Channel 4 comedy series Peep Show (2003–2015) and Fresh Meat (2011–2016), and the creator of the HBO drama series Succession.

He has received several nominations and awards, including a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for co-writing the film In the Loop (2009). He won the Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series category at the 71st Primetime Emmy Awards and 72nd Primetime Emmy Awards for writing the season finales of Succession season one and two.

Born in Oswestry in Shropshire, England, Armstrong’s father was a further education teacher who became a crime novelist in the 1990s. His mother worked in nursery schools. He attended a comprehensive school in Oswestry before studying American Studies at the University of Manchester, spending a year abroad in Massachusetts.

After graduation he moved to London and worked both as a washer-upper and at Oddbins.

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In 1995, he began to work as a researcher for the Labour MP Doug Henderson.

Armstrong met his writing partner Sam Bain while at the University of Manchester, living with him in his final year. They began writing together after they graduated.

Armstrong and Bain wrote for the Channel 4 sketch show Smack the Pony and the children’s shows The Queen’s Nose and My Parents Are Aliens. They went on to create and write Peep Show, BBC One sitcom The Old Guys, and most recently Channel 4 comedy dramas Fresh Meat and Babylon. They also wrote for the BBC Radio 4 sketch show That Mitchell and Webb Sound, starring Peep Show’s two main actors David Mitchell and Robert Webb, and its BBC Two adaptation That Mitchell and Webb Look.

Peep Show has won several writing awards, including a BAFTA for Best Situation Comedy in 2008.