DHAKA: Netflix series Master of None has scored its first Emmy, with its co-writer calling for better Asian representation on screen.

Alan Yang and Aziz Ansari won the Emmy for outstanding writing for a comedy series for their Parents episode.

The episode explored the relationship between US immigrants and their children.

Yang used his acceptance speech to say Asian representation still had “a long way to go’ in the US.

“There’s 17 million Asian-Americans in this country, and there’s 17 million Italian Americans,” he told the audience in Los Angeles on Sunday night.

“They have The Godfather, Goodfellas, Rocky, the Sopranos. We got Long Duck Dong,” he said, referencing the cartoonish character from Sixteen Candles.

He went on to address Asian parents saying: “If you could just do me a favor and just a couple of you get your kids cameras instead of violins, we would be all good”.

Ansari, who stars in Master of None as an aspiring actor, was unable to give his speech because their time ran out.

He stepped up to the microphone but was interrupted by the cut-off music.

“You guys are in trouble!” he joked, before running off the stage and into his seat.

His parents, who played his parents in the episode, were present at the ceremony.

Later, he thanked them on Facebook for “giving me everything and more”.

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