The masterminds behind critically acclaimed comedy series Master of None have used their Emmys acceptance speech to make an appeal for greater on-screen diversity.
Aziz Ansari and Alan Yang took out the Comedy Series Writing award, and spoke about the lack of Asian-American representation on television and film in the US.
"There's 17 million Asian-Americans in this country, and there's 17 million Italian-Americans," Yang said.
"They have The Godfather, Goodfellas, Rocky, The Sopranos. We got Long Duk Dong [from Sixteen Candles], so we've got a long way to go.
"But I know we can get there; I believe in us. It's just going to take a lot of hard work. Asian parents out there, if you could just do me a favour, just a couple of you get your kids cameras instead of violins, and we'll be all good."
Master of None is very conscious of diversity, with three of its core five cast members of a minority group and much of its storyline centring on racism and sexism, among other issues.
The Netflix show is expected to return for a second season early in 2017.
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