The 2015 Emmy Awards happened to coincide with Game of Thrones author George R.R. Martin’s birthday this year. To honor the occasion, host Andy Samberg wandered out into the audience to tease the author with a little photoshopped representation of what Martin might have looked like at his first Emmy Award.

But the real kicker of the segment was when Samberg joked, “Thanks for telling me during the commercial that Jon Snow is alive.” Rest assured, Jon Snow truthers will be poring over this head shake from series co-creator David Benioff for months.

Is that a rueful “Oh, Andy” head shake or more of a “Give it up, he’s dead, let it go” gesture? Shortly after this bit, Benioff and his co-creator D.B. Weiss won a best-writing Emmy for the Season 5 finale “Mother’s Mercy.” This gives Game of Thrones its ninth Emmy of 2015, and ties West Wing’s record for most Emmy Awards won by a TV series in a single year.