'Veep' guest star Peter MacNicol's Emmy nomination revoked Veep's Peter MacNicol has lost his comedic guest-actor Emmy nomination after running afoul of a technicality.During a rules overhaul last year, the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences stipulated that in order to be considered a guest star, an actor must appear in less than 50% of that season's episodes. It was one of the changes put in place to prevent the category-shopping that marked the 2014 nomination process.MacNicol, who plays Jonah's (Timothy Simons) uncle and political power broker, Jeff Kane, appeared in five of the 10 fifth-season episodes, although HBO told the Associated Press that he was only scheduled to appear in four at the time his name was put for consideration, all of which had already aired. But when he appeared for a few seconds in the documentary episode "Kissing Your Sister," he crossed the 50% threshold.According to a statement from HBO, the episodes from the latter half of the season ' and therefore their acting credits ' hadn't been completed when they submitted MacNicol's name before the Emmys' May 2 entry deadline. At that point, the production staff informed the network he was eligible for the guest-star category.He does already have one Emmy, having won in 2001 for his supporting role on Ally McBeal.The Academy is expected to announce who will be taking MacNicol's place in the comedy guest-actor field on Thursday.The other nominees are Bob Newhart (CBS' The Big Bang Theory), Tracy Morgan (NBC's Saturday Night Live), Bradley Whitford (Amazon's Transparent) and fellow Veep actor Martin Mull.In 2000, Henry Winkler was cut from the same category because his guest appearance on NBC's short-lived Battery Park aired after the May 31 deadline that year. Five years earlier, Dennis Miller's individual performance in HBO's Dennis Miller Live was booted from the variety/music program field because of a rule barring actors whose names are in that show's title.

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