 His restaurant colleagues, Eben Moss-Backrack as Cousin Richie and Iowa Debery as Sidney, are equally deserving of their Emmys, too, just not for the category in which they competed and won. Let me put it as plainly as I can. The Bear is not a comedy. Oh, it's laugh-out-loud funny in spots, and some supporting characters play more like comic relief. But that's like calling Hamlet a comedy because of those early jokes by a gravedigger.