Sunday Pt 3 - The Emmynator

The show opens with Brian and Stewie Griffin singing a song about how TV stinks! Good move! Some funny jokes even if I am over The Family Guy.

Emmy's in the round this year. Bit strange. Seacrest isn't bombing, but he is boring.

Ray Romano is still talking about how marriage is hard. Way to milk one note for decades, dude. I actually kind of liked his show, though, I'm embarrassed to admit.

Supporting Actor Comedy: Jeremy Piven. Okay, not only does it suck that Piven won, it sucks that they stopped showing all the nominees before announcing the winners so you no longer get to see the losers pretend to be happy and the winners pretend to be surprised.

Supporting Actor Drama: Terry O'Quinn. I don't watch Lost but his speech about how he'd rather be baking cookies on Wisteria Lane sometimes is kind of cute and his hot pink shirt and glittery tie are glorious!

Supporting Actress Comedy: Jaime Pressly. Hrm. I thought Jenna Fischer was a lock for this. Ugh, another actor who says "my" as in "my crew".

They just called Katherine Heigl "Katherine Hei-jel". Nice one.

Supporting Actor Miniseries or Movie: Thomas Haden Church. I never liked him until Sideways. Then he had to go and do Spider-Man 3.

Supporting Actress Drama: Katherine Heigl. I swear she mouthed "shit" when she won. Probably still mad about them screwing up her name.

Writing Variety, Music or Comedy Series: Late Night with Conan O'Brien. Funniest nominee bit, but does anyone else find it disturbing that I only heard one, maybe two, women's names called?

Directing Variety, Music or Comedy Series: Rob Marshall, Tony Bennett. I think Tony Bennett is amazing and everything (I even got to pick him up at an airport once), but the dance number that accompanied his performance was weak.

Lead Actor Miniseries or Movie: Robert DuVall. He says Westerns are back. Great.

Outstanding Miniseries: Broken Trail. Proud or embarrassed to say I've never even heard of this miniseries? Indifferent, really.

Guest Actor Drama: John Goodman (Studio 60). They didn't even bother announcing that he won, did they? Strange.

Guest Actress Drama: Leslie Caron (Law & Order: SVU). I am super sad to see that she changed dresses as her CA Emmys frock was unbelievable, and she designed it herself! It had the puffiest sleeves ever.

Directing Drama: Alan Taylor (The Sopranos).

Writing Drama: David Chase (The Sopranos). Two Sopranos wins in a row and not one explanation for that ending.

Variety Music or Comedy Series: The Daily Show. TDS is pretty hit or miss for me but I'm glad it's made the news interesting for Generation Y. Or are we on Z?

Variety Music or Comedy Special: Tony Bennett, An American Classic. Danny Bennett. Hey, I've met that guy. Tony introduced his new wife (married last June (and on my birthday, no less), they've been together 20 years and are separated by 33).

Made for Television Movie: Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee. I'm falling asleep.

I swear I'm not watching any television tomorrow.

I'm really afraid to see what this Jersey Boys Sopranos tribute is going to be like. Oh, it's just a bunch of montages. Now I am asleep. The cast of the show gets called up to receive a standing ovation and spend some uncomfortable moments milling around the stage.

Lead Actress Miniseries or Movie: Helen Mirren (Prime Suspect). Helen Mirren is brilliant and cool. She should win everything.

Lewis Black usually irritates me (all that yelling!) but he's quite amusingly lambasting TV execs about the ridiculous previews for the next show that come up on the bottom of your screen (don't you hate those?) and the horrible state of television news.

Directing Miniseries or Movie: Philip Martin (Prime Suspect). I wish more people were English sometimes. Forgive me but I've been an Anglophile since I was a teenager.

Writing Miniseries, Movie or Dramatic Special: Frank Deasy (Prime Suspect).

Masi Oka is so cute. It took me years to find Asian men attractive. Yes, it's true, this is what happens when you're raised by white people in Texas. I'm glad I've expanded my world view... and oh gosh, Al Gore is getting a standing ovation. He deserves one but possibly not for Current TV. HAHAHA, the man who invented the internet just got the URL of his own website wrong! It's www.current.tv, Al.

Individual Performance in a Variety Program: Tony Bennett. Heavens, what a surprise. Tony's doing a Target promo as an acceptance speech. Not sure how I feel about this.

Directing Comedy Series: Richard Shepard (Ugly Betty). I love UB and can't wait for the new season.

Writing Comedy Series: Greg Daniels (The Office). Score one for awkward moments.

Kanye West and Rainn Wilson are competing for who gets to present the next award. The competition: The songs of Kanye West. Kanye loses and in a moment of self-effacing redemption jokes that he never wins.

Reality Competition: The Amazing Race. Never seen it. Don't care.

Lead Actor Comedy Series: Ricky Gervais. Wow. And he's not even there, but Steve Carell turns it into a moment of hilarity. Or maybe it's hilarious because I'm delirious.

Lead Actress Drama Series: Sally Field (Brothers and Sisters). Hard for the other gals to be po'ed when it's Sally Field because they really really like her. Hmm... They just cut off her swear word infused anti-war sentiment. I hate how instead of simply bleeping they cut to some weird random overhead audience shot. They did this at the VMA's too. Very odd, very lame.

Lead Actress Comedy Series: America Ferrara (Ugly Betty). All the losers sure look happy for her. Proof that they really are good actresses. It's hard not to love Ferrara, though.

Lead Actor Drama: James Spader (Boston Legal). Color me shocked! I hope this doesn't mean I have to start watching that show again.

Comedy Series: 30 Rock. Ahh, a surprise - and a good one at that! I'm actually excited about this as 30 Rock is hands down my favorite comedy. Tina Fey is much cooler free of SNL and Alec Baldwin is genius (on the show, anyway).

Drama Series: The Sopranos. Well, knock me over with a feather. I bet Toshiba is super glad they hired Michael Imperioli.

The final word: Can this show go back to whatever network had it before? The Emmys in the round and Ryan Seacrest can, in the now infamous words of Kathy Griffin, suck it.

Goodnight fair readers. Hope this didn't take you as long to read as it did for me to watch!
Ms. P

ps. This week's posts will be dedicated to my Fall TV Preview (as if all this Emmy coverage wasn't enough!) I'm sure current events and in(s)anity will worm their way in somewhere.