Lisa Kudrow has earned her third consecutive Emmy nomination for Lead Actress in a Comedy Series for playing sitcom actress Valerie Cherish in HBO's showbiz satire The Comeback, some 20 years after her first nomination for the role. The milestone is notable because, while the three nominations are technically consecutive — one for each season — they are separated by unusually long gaps that mirror the show's stop-start release pattern of an original run followed by two revivals more than a decade apart.

Kudrow was nominated for Season 1 in 2006, Season 2 in 2015 and the third and final season in 2026, giving her the longest overall span between three acting nominations for the same role on the same show (though not the single largest gap between two consecutive nominations, a distinction held by Laurie Metcalf for Roseanne). A nine-time Emmy nominee who won previously for playing Phoebe on Friends, Kudrow is still seeking her first trophy for The Comeback, whose final season saw Valerie starring in what is described as the first TV sitcom written by AI. The article notes similar revival-driven gaps for other actors, including Jason Bateman for Arrested Development.