And now, the miscellaneous quips from my Emmy viewing party this evening:
For a man who has insisted for years that he's retiring, Leonard Nimoy sure works a lot.
By the end of Jane Lynch's opening number, the Emmys have already outlasted most FOX TV series.
I see they took Wilmer Valderrama back out of the egg for this event.
In case you don't actually watch any of these shows (in which case, why are you watching this?), here's a montage to catch you up.
Julianna Margulies' dress is ribbed for your pleasure.
So, looks like Modern Family is on a tear. Yes, it's great, but you can't make up for not recognizing how awesome it was in its first season by doubling the award love now.
Seriously, did anyone from a show other than Modern Family need to even show up?
Brilliant choice by the show director to cut to the writer's wife when he confesses being "caught in the act" by his children. Twice! Gosh, that director should win an Emmy.
So, if you're the child of a Modern Family writer, you'd better walk the straight and narrow. Anything you do wrong is going to end up in an episode.
But the Emmy director did not cut to Chuck Lorre while Charlie Sheen was speaking. Maybe he's not that brilliant after all.
Color me shocked that Steve Carell didn't win the sentimental goodbye Emmy.
I love this Best Comedy Actress award on stage moment. And the standing ovation is well deserved. But I can't tell where Edie Falco's skin ends and her dress begins.
Melissa McCarthy? Seriously? I guess I really have to see Bridesmaids now. (I'm sure as hell not going to start watching Mike and Molly.)
Seeing Jesse from Breaking Bad on The Office was the highlight of the night for me. Maybe of the entire TV season. It's a high bar to have set so early.
Is Kaley Cuoco gonna click her heels three times and go back to black and white?
Colbert and Conan's writers both came up with basically the same gag. So you know immediately neither of them is going to win.
Someone straightened Michael Bolton's fake mustache between parts of the song. It was way funnier before.
I'm not sure what the point of that song was, other than jealousy that the Oscars have musical numbers.
I just now realized how tiny Scott Caan is, seeing him stand next to Anna Paquin -- because she is not a tall woman. Jon Stewart looks tall next to him. Seriously, the apple box budget on Hawaii Five-0 must be astronomical.
If Peter Dinklage is winning an Emmy now, just wait until we get to the stuff that happens to Tyrion after the first book! Except that he forgot to thank George R.R. Martin, the man who ultimately controls his fate. Big whoops.
Did Katie Holmes put her dress on backwards?
Do you hear that? It's the sound of AMC's reign ending. And just when they've pissed off and/or fired the creators of all their most successful and acclaimed shows.
So only now, after Friday Night Lights is over, do they finally decide to give it awards?
The new Angels are totally groping Kyle Chandler.
Jane Lynch gets in a wickedly awesome burn on the Entourage cast.
What is that lizard Muppet sitting behind Tina Fey?!!
The writer of Downton Abbey is married to Gloria Swanson.
The Emmys seem to have followed the Oscars with attempting to enforce a "don't applaud during the death montage" policy. But the audience takes a stand and applauds a few people anyway.
Guy Pearce looks like he skydived to the Emmys.
Claire Danes is starring in Splash 2.
Kate Winslet wins, but starts walking away from the stage.
Downton Abbey wins the TV Movie award, giving us a second dose of extreme harumph-humph-humph.
William H. Macy came to the Emmys in the Red Baron's plane.
Mad Men wins yet again? Perhaps my report of the decline of AMC was premature. Though I'm at a loss on how a show that apparently didn't have any of the best writers, directors, or actors still managed to be the best show on television.
If both the acting and country music things fall apart for Gwyneth Paltrow, she's ready to take up belly dancing.
Quality speech from the creator of Modern Family to wrap up the evening.
4 comments:
How many Emmy's did Community get?
Mad Men again?
Give me a break.
At first I was fascinated by the show's portrayal of the '60s. But the more I watched it, the more it became obvious that their writers weren't great, that neither were their actors (for the most part) and that nobody had a clue as to where the show was going.
I finally reached a point where I'm not even sure I'll watch the new season -- if it ever airs.
FKL
FKL -- I don't know that I'd say Mad Men is as bad as you seem to be saying. But on the other hand, I haven't thought it was the best drama ANY of the years it won the Emmy. Breaking Bad, Lost, and Dexter all would have been more worthy choices over the last four years, and that's only what I can think of just off the top of my head.
And Community won 0 Emmys that I'm aware of. Wasn't even nominated for many (any?).
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