My Thoughts on the Emmys

Everyone and their mom is blogging/Twittering/shouting/bird messengering their opinions about the 60th Annual Emmy Awards and, since I want to be like all the cool kids, I thought I’d join in. Booyahkah.

• Celebs recite famous TV lines. I have a feeling a lot of the Ghosts From TV’s Past moments are going to bog the show down.
• Oooooo…Oprah. Bathe in her otherwordly glow…
• Tom Bergeron is a great live host. He really is. Everyone else is fine but I have to give props to Le Tom.
• Tina Fey and Amy Poehler present the first awards, looking fabulous while being funny. They are a great comedy team, Tina as the not-so-straight straight person and Amy as the “wacky” one.
  

  Tina Fey and Amy Poehler take the stage (courtesy of zimbio.com)

• Neil Patrick Harris was once again robbed in Outstanding Supporting Comedy Actor category. While I enjoy Jeremy Piven, I don’t enjoy him three years in a row essentially playing an amped up, less polite version of himself.
• Tom Bergeron is slightly shorter than Ryan Seacrest…is that like a Smurf standing next to a Keebler Elf?
• Outstanding Supporting Comedy Actress is a tough category – they’re all really good in their parts. I’m good with Jean Smart winning (she looks fab btw) but a part of me always wants Vanessa Williams to win anything she’s nominated for.
• Eyewitness Morning News commercial has everyone in standard business attire except one dude in the corner wearing a leather jacket. I’m guessing he’s the traffic guy.
• Liking Heidi as a host. She’s taking the whole live thing with aplomb.
• I dig Felicity Huffman’s short hair. The “Desperate Housewives” look good as a whole but I wonder if the powers that be are pushing the “we all get along” thing too hard. I don’t pay attention to rumors but, you know, just wondering.
• I heart Ricky Gervais. I really do. He’s full of awesome. his bit with Steve Carell is genius.
• Doesn’t the Emmy Director Louis J. Horvitz win every year?
• The way the announcer said Conan O’Brian’s name came off a little sarcastic. But points to Conan for making what will probably be the only Katherine Heigl/”Writing not strong enough” joke of the night.
• Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama is full of great actors who’s shows I don’t watch. You go Diane Weist.
• Hayden Panetierre is much shorter than Jennifer Love Hewitt which means I can fit her in my pocket.
  

  Hayden & Jennifer Love present (courtesy of zimbio.com)

• I always love the Outstanding Writers for Comedy/Variety/Musical intros. They are consistently funny and/or creative. And kudos to Stephen Colbert on the classy speech.
• Steve Martin, still with the funny.
• Big ups to Tommy Smothers, I was always a big fan.
• Ah…Josh Groban. His TV theme song segment was so effing fantastic. A lot of people may not agree but I don’t care. I can’t decide whether “The Love Boat”, “South Park”, “The Jeffersons”, or “Fresh Prince of Bel Air” was my favorite. I can’t help but miss “Batman” and “Wonder Woman” – they so should’ve been included. Groban’s much funnier than people give him credit for. The Emmys should end right now because there’s no way to go but down.
• I haven’t seen any of the Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Mini-Series/Movie nominees’ programs. Shame on me.
• Digging the “Rowen & Martin’s Laugh-In” reunion for the Variety/Comedy/Musical Series presentation. It’s so very very very strange. Extremely so. They tried to make the best out of sub-par material.
• A whopping 27 cumulative nominations for “The Daily Show”.
• Lauren “MTV Wants You To Believe I’m Famous” Conrad and “Project Runway” winner Christian Siriano designed the usher/award/presenter girls’ dresses. Bet you can tell the difference.
• David Boreanaz is totally not into having to present with Lauren “The Show I’m On Totally Isn’t Scripted, No Really” Conrad. I bet he’s thinking, “What the (*&^ is this? I’m mother *#%@ing “Angel”! I’m on a successful, awesome show on FOX that hasn’t gotten canceled! This is bull(*&^!” Or maybe that’s just what I’m thinking.
• Barry Sonnenfeld is sweating bullets during his Director of a Comedy Series acceptance speech, but his nervousness makes him adorable. I want to hug him…but maybe pat the dew from his brow first.
• Cut back to David Boreanaz continuing to look really uncomfortable in the next presentation sequence. And how about that Conrad chick telling him that he stepped on her “And the Emmy goes to…” line? I don’t know which one of us is more relieved that that’s over.
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  Tina Fey on the Red Carpet (courtesy of topsocialite.com)

  Have I mentioned how fantastic Tina Fey looks? Because her whole Old Hollywood Glamour vibe is working it to death. Congrats on her Writing win, it’s well deserved.

• Christian Slater and Christina Applegate presenting together. I like the combo – child stars who’ve grown up to get their own TV shows. He sounds much less like Jack Nicholson in his older age and Christina looks awesome.
• For some odd reason, I forgot Laurence “Cowboy Curtis” Fishburne will be taking William Petersen’s place on “CSI”. That’s all kinds of dope.
• Jon Stewart + Stephen Colbert = Comedy Gold. Even awkward material ends up being funny.  “After eight years of prunes you would think…” “Never enough. What could possibly go wrong?”
• I really like Sandra Oh’s dress and dig her “M*A*S*H*” story – “It was the first time I’d seen someone on TV that looked like me.”
• Matching Kathy Griffen and Don Rickles to present is like putting dynamite sticks and grenades in a backpack together. Big-ups on demanding a standing O for Rickles and Kathy’s extensions are large and in charge. And Rickles is still hilarious.
• Outstanding Reality Competition category is a farce without “So You Think You Can Dance” and I’m totally sick of “Amazing Race” winning. “Project Runway” should’ve gotten it.
• Sally Field’s dress is fantastic in theory, but just a little on the long side I think. But she’s still Sally Field which makes her full of win.
• Heidi Klum and Tom Bergeron will be appearing at a comedy club near you before doing a short stint in Vegas.
• I’d pay money to see NPH and Kristin Chenoweth appear in anything together. It should be a reality show…them on a road trip like Oprah and Gayle, except with far more show tunes.
  

  Kristin Chenoweth and Neil Patrick Harris present (courtesy of zimbio.com)

• Congrats to Rickles on his second win. I wonder how many times a day his wife gives him the finger.
• Kate Walsh is working her look so hard I’m ignoring that big hateful flower in the middle of her bosom. And I like Wayne Brady’s shiny black on black suit.
• Yay Glynn Turman! He looks fantastic and I’ll always love him for being on “A Different World”.
• Speaking of looking fantastic, you get it Glenn Close. You get it and you show it no mercy.
• Paul Giamatti won for “John Adams”. Can’t say I’m surprised. He was great in “Shoot ‘Em Up”.
• I can’t recall the last time I saw Candice Bergen in a dress. But she’s shaking that pantsuit into submission.
• Seventh nomination is the charm for Alec Baldwin. I’m pretty sure his Redd Foxx impression is what sealed it for him.
• Vanessa Williams and America Ferrara (though I’m not sure I like the ruffle-y bits on the bottom of her dress) are one good looking pair of presenters.
• Lead Actress in a Drama is another rough category. Oh no, you are not trying to play off Glenn Close on her win. You shut up orchestra.
• Aw…it’s the Death Montage. Aka “He/She died?” aka “Aaaaaaw.”
• Lead Actor in a Drama is hard too. Yay for bald, mustachioed Bryan Cranston! He’s like an alternate universe version of Lex Luthor.
• Craig Fergeson/Brooke Shields combo surprisingly funny.
• The Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy category is hard too. Geez. But yay for Tina Fey!
• Jimmy Kimmel is the perfect presenter for Outstanding Reality Host. I think it’s awesome that they actually threw it to a commercial before awarding it. If Tom Bergeron doesn’t win , I’m rioting. Eh…Jeff Probst won. I guess I’m okay with that. But not really. Tom was totally robbed.
• Mary Tyler Moore and Betty White. Respect. They present Outstanding Comedy Series to the awesome “30 Rock”. Tina Fey and company are stealing the other shows’ lunches.
• Tom Selleck and his legendary mustache now graces the stage to present the final award – Outstanding Drama Series. He’s still looking good. “Mad Men” wins and I doubt anyone is surprised.
• Probst closes out the show. It should’ve been Bergeron.

So, all in all, the Emmys were the Emmys. Few surprises, some great outfits, some horrible ones, stale bits being read from a teleprompter by all the wrong people and many of the folks that could get a chuckle got cut off courtesy of extra-long, useless host bits. But it could’ve been worse. Howie Mandel and Seacrest could’ve been hosting all by themselves.

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