‘Crazy Ex-Girlfriend’ star wins Golden Globe

The star of the Jewy show “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend,” Rachel Bloom, was named best actress in a television series, musical or comedy at Sunday’s Golden Globe Awards.

The Hungarian Holocaust movie “Son of Saul” won for best foreign film. And Aaron Sorkin won in the best screenplay category for the film “Steve Jobs.” Bloom and Sorkin are Jewish.

The televised ceremony included host Ricky Gervais roasting presenter Mel Gibson, who made anti-Semitic slurs to a sheriff’s officer during a widely publicized DUI arrest in 2006.

Bloom, along with being the star of “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend,” is the creator of the CW series about a successful New York lawyer, Rebecca Bunch, who follows her summer camp ex-boyfriend to small-town California, even though he has a serious girlfriend. Rebecca’s Judaism is a major element of the show.

Bloom burst into tears upon learning that she had won best comedy actress for the freshman series on the CW. The quasi-musical has won critical plaudits but has struggled to find an audience. She recalled how after another network rejected the pilot, six other networks in a single day turned down a chance to acquire it.

“We knew it was good and Mark Pedowitz of the CW picked it out and he’s the one that saved us,” Bloom said. A year earlier, the CW’s Gina Rodriguez won the same award for “Jane the Virgin,” which airs back-to-back with “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend” on Mondays.

Read: Why you should binge watch the very Jewy ‘Crazy Ex-Girfriend’

Gibson was presenting for the best picture nominee “Mad Max: Fury Road” when he felt the wrath of Gervais, who also had insulted Gibson at the 2010 Golden Globe Awards ceremony.

“A few years ago on this show I made a joke about Mel Gibson getting a bit drunk and saying a few unsavory things,” Gervais said Sunday night. “We’ve all done it. I wasn’t judging him, but now I find myself in the awkward position of having to introduce him again. Listen, I’m sure it’s embarrassing for both of us, and I blame NBC for this terrible situation. And Mel blames … well, we know who Mel blames.”

Gibson later apologized for the anti-Semitic remarks he made to the police officer.

Gervais ended the show by saying: “From myself and Mel Gibson, shalom.”