Emmy
Monday, August 28th, 2006 at 1:39 pmRemember when I wrote about Julia Louis-Dreyfus’s new sitcom The New Adventures of Old Christine in my TV Show Round Up? And how I praised the show in this review, stating that “It looks like the [Seinfeld] curse has finally been lifted.” Well, Louis-Dreyfus won the Emmy last night for Lead Actress in a Comedy for her new show!
I thought the Emmy Awards were entertaining, especially host Conan O’Brien’s opening video skit, where he was inserted into a few of today’s hit TV shows, like Lost and 24. I absolutely LOVED when he fell through the ceiling and right into the set of The Office — which deservedly won the award for Best Comedy.
HBO did well at the awards, especially their historical miniseries Elizabeth I, which snagged nine Emmys.
Although I love the The Daily Show With Jon Stewart, I think that The Colbert Report clearly should have won for Outstanding Variety, Music Or Comedy Series as well as this category’s writing award. And Stephen Colbert, my man, he got dissed. He lost Individual Performance to Barry Manilow, ack! Of course, later on Colbert could barely get through his teleprompter lines because he was so upset to lose to the likes of Manilow (can you blame him?).
While Will & Grace’s Megan Mullally gave her character a great run, I think My Name Is Earl’s Jaime Pressly deserved the Supporting Actress award.
I could have done without the Dick Clark and Aaron Spelling tributes. It was emotional to see Dick Clark give that speech after suffering from a stroke, but normally, I never liked him. I know he ushered in the hits for decades, but to me he was always the guy pushing a lot of bad music (remember, I hate pop music?). Same goes for Aaron Spelling, the man who singlehandedly gave us really crappy TV shows.
Now, don’t get all nostalgic on me, OK? Face it, Love Boat, Fantasy Island, Dynasty — they are unwatchable! Yeah, I know, I watched them when they were on, but I was a small child then, I didn’t know any better. I didn’t realize how friggin’ awful they were. Go ahead, put them on right now and try to sit through it, see what happens. You know I’m right, don’t even front.
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I will totally re-watch episodes of Charlie’s Angels though!
You and Katie would get along well. She enjoys New Adventures as well. I think it’s okay. Her brother is the best part of it. He cracks me up. Her winning an award though? Nah. I agree, it should’ve been Pressly.
Yeah, 90210? WTF.
I also thought Jaime Pressley deserved the win over Megan. Her caustic hillbilly is a totally original new character in sitcomdom. I love “The Office” too and was glad it won. And Barry Manilow’s win and speech? Totally laughable. Did he even realize he wasn’t at the Grammys? I don’t blame Stephen Colbert. His reaction was great. I also laughed during the opening titles of all of Aaron Spelling shows. Did I ever watch even a single one of them? Hell no. Dreck, one and all. I wish the “Charlie’s Angel’s” chicks would have had a giant cat fight though. Now that would have been funny. Maybe with commentary by Stephen Colbert.
Sorry, I CAN watch the Love Boat and Fantasy Island. But I’m a sick, sick man.
The best part, by FAR, of this year’s Emmys was the threat to Bob Newhart’s life. I never saw such succinct-yet-heartfelt acceptance speeches in my life. Let’s do that again next year with some other beloved veteran actor. I’m thinking Andy Griffith. “Shut up and get off the stage, people. You’ll break Opie’s heart.”