One of the best parts of the Emmys is the presentation of writing credits for nominated late night shows, because each show sends in their own video instead of leaving the nominee announcement to, um, whoever writes the rest of the Emmys. It's neat to see how the individual shows do it differently (though it's not neat to ever see Dr. Phil in any context.)
(Via No Fact Zone.) The Colbert Report may have taken home the actual award, but Conan's team had the best nominee video. Also, Colbert's daughter is all grown up! Remember when he interviewed her on The Daily Show when she was eight? I hope they manage to keep her away from the Young Hollywood crowd.
Yay for Mad Men winning Best Drama at the Emmys last night! I found this red carpet interview with the show's bombshell Joan Holloway, Christina Hendricks, and I don't really know what she says (something about her dress maybe?) because I can't.stop.staring.at.her.gigantic.cleavage:
They're real and they're spectacular. Hey! Her eyes are up there. (Probably?)
Every time they went to commercial during the Emmys last night, the hosts teased Josh Groban's upcoming performance of thirty classic TV theme songs. As someone who barely knows who Josh Groban is, it sounded kind of lame, not to mention long. But oops, no, it turned out to be arguably the best award-show musical number ever (mostly because award show musical numbers have been all terrible up to now.) My favorite part (everyone's favorite part) is the South Park theme:
I'm not going to run out and buy Josh Groban records now or anything, but this was good. The Baywatch part had me in stitches.
Gabe is crazy -- if he'd watched more than just one YouTube clip from Jimmy Kimmel's Big Night Of Stars, he would have discovered the pitch-perfect parody of Barbara Walters Specials (and prime time interview specials in general) the world has desperately needed. The parts of the Tracy Morgan interview he called "boring" were actually strange, wonderfully uncomfortable moments the likes of which have probably never aired on a network in prime time. Rather than dismiss the Jimmy Kimmel Emmy Special because it sounds dumb, let's celebrate it because it was so incredibly esoteric and weird and completely different from the bland mediocrity we're used to. Take the Salma Hayek interview and musical number, for example. Can you believe this aired at 7:40 PM on ABC as the lead-in to one of the year's biggest international television events?:
lindsay: So who do you think will win the Emmys?
gabe: david schwimmer
lindsay: If Dexter is robbed, I swear to god...
gabe: i think that david schwimmer is going to take home all of the emmy's
gabe: except for sound production
gabe: because his sound production SUUUUUUCKS
gabe: do you even watch dexter?
lindsay: No.
gabe: who watches dexter?
lindsay: Nobody I know watches Dexter
gabe: i feel like one editor at entertainemnt weekly and one editor at the new york tiems watch dexter
gabe: david edelstein watches dexter
gabe: and bugs his friends about how great dexter is
gabe: so that the rest of us feel bad for not watching dexter
If you missed the annual bikewreck that is the VMAs, I'm jealous. Nothing happened, and the only reason to watch the show was to complain about it loudly with other people who were also watching and complaining loudly. The two biggest questions going in were:
1. Will Britney do anything notable or interesting?
2. Will Russell Brand be surprisingly good or expectedly terrible?
Eeek, whose idea was this? The whole gimmick with Russell Brand is that he's this funny guy from England who is almost completely unknown even to people who saw him in Forgetting Sarah Marshall. So after they tapped him to host the VMAs, someone at MTV was like "Let's see if we can get Britney to do promos with him." Except they're really uncomfortable and Russell acts like not just a pervert molester, but a condescending pervert molester. It's really unfunny. In the latest ones, he tries to kiss Britney, burps, and fondles her leg:
(There's another equally gross one here.) This could be amusing if anyone in America knew who this dude was, but this is no way to introduce him. NOT LIKEABLE.
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