Live blogging the emmys

[jlh]

No one is replying to me on chat, so I'm putting this shit on the LJ. Lucky you!

I really liked all the quotes in the montage! It was fun!

I love how the actual opener was Oprah. None of those bitches can argue with Oprah.

But the host open? What the shit? Ryan was better last year, and let's face it, he was only okay. At least Ryan's job last year will look better in comparison! The clothing rip off totally did not work.

Amy Poehler is enormous and completely adorable but I still wish NPH had won.

Okay, you want to know why newspapers are in the shit? You see that :60 for Macy's? Macy's is doing a huge branding ad on television? That's why.

Oh Seinfeld, how great were you. I love how Julia is like, gotta give the cheek kiss to Ryan. I'm just glad she gets to come out to that clip and know that she's got a nicely successful show of her own now. Also Jean Smart is aging REALLY well.

So the Housewives coming out of the set reminded me a little too much of the opening of Family Feud.

Gervais is awesome, in a bit that reminds us of one of the only truly funny moments in last year's telecast. (Well, except for Ryan in the Henry VIII costume, but that could be just me.)

I have a soft spot for Conan, as he's a Harvard man and we had the same (smallish) concentration but I love that his intro came from the Simpsons. I love how the Emmy went to the person who didn't show.

The montage for comedy writers is always a highlight—I love that the SNL writers were Wii avatars—and aww, Colbert finally won! And aww, he brought his completely adorable daughter!

I fucking hate Howie. I'm just saying this now. As for the accountants, would it have killed them to get some hot guy in short shorts to walk the lady accountant?

OMG Martin is doing Smothers Brothers this fucking RULES!!!!! Tommy Smothers is completely fucking awesome, and if you want me to, I'll do ten minutes on why. Oh wait, I don't have to, because he's using his speech to tell you why CBS fired him 40 years ago. Rock the fuck on, Tommy!!!!!

Groban fucking rules me. When that goes on youtube I will link.

YAY Abigail Adams! YAY Laura Linney!

I'm not sure that doing an ad to answer the Mac ads is really the way to go. It's cute, but it just makes me think of the Mac ads. And given that I adore the British "PC" (and the American one) I don't know how much it really works to do what it wants to do.

OMG I love that Lily Tomlin actually showed up, but god, I can't believe most of these people are still alive, and sadly none of them still have any timing, so the bit kinda sucked, and now everyone is like, why did anyone like Laugh-In? (I also kinda love that Bergeron intro'd them since he's the only host who remembers the damn show.) YAY Daily Show, and yay John doing his little tiny bit about the show.

In other news, Heidi pretty much sucks. And Boreanaz is clearly thinking, I can't believe I'm standing next to this fucking idiot. YAY for Tina Fey!

Special to Sprint: Don't put your CEO in your ads! No one cares about him! I'm like, who's this white guy in a diner and why should I care? You don't want that reaction from people.

By the way, I can't believe that they're going ahead with the US version of Life on Mars. It already looks like a train wreck.

Do you think that they're giving Bergeron all this solo airtime because it's ABC?

Martin Sheen is soooo classy; I adore him. I've already said my peace on Sorkin today. I love that everyone is talking about the trouble TV is in; I find that very interesting.

Christina Applegate yay! Recount, whatever.

Oooh, didn't anyone tell Larry that Billy HATES the other CSI's? Also, Ben Franklin always wins, yo.

That prune bit was brilliant. Recount is still whatever.

You know, to be honest? That Gray's Anatomy promo shows all the reasons I pretty much no longer watch television dramas.

What a brilliant moment to choose from M*A*S*H!! And yes, Sandra, there were people that looked like you on that show, but they weren't the stars, sadly. Now, I watched Cranford and that was a depressing fucking show, let me tell ya.

Oh, right: YAY John Adams!!!

Okay, Kathy and Rickles, brilliant. I love how she can't even keep a straight face, I approve of her screaming "GET UP!" And the Amazing Race won, because it wins every year, which is why Simon isn't even there, but is already at the party.

Nice, Heidi, wearing new Michael Kors.

NPH, stick it to Howie! Rock on with that! I would have loved to see that bit! Jeez. Defamer says that Piven was bashing the crapass opener in the press room. Ryan's looking better all the time, isn't he?

I never thought I'd use the word adorable to refer to Don Rickles, but that little walk across the stage was completely adorable.

Cynthia Nixon looks fantastic in that color. I'm pleased that the director of such an interesting episode as House's Head won. Also congrats for Mad Men, as I know a lot of you guys are loving it.

I just want to say that if Ryan were hosting on his own, the show wouldn't be fucking going over.

YAY for Paul Giamatti!

Candace, I just, she looks great, but I don't know why she likes wearing beige so much. Yay for more 30 Rock! And even more 30 Rock! And cable dramas!

I can't believe Kimmel went to break. I'm so nervous! Hold me, internets! Okay, we're back, I'm super sad because Ryan thinks that Probst gets everything he should get, and he'll never hear the end of it from Simon. That said, at least his hosting last year's Emmy's was better than this train wreck tonight.

Mary always looks great, doesn't she? Betty looks fine, but she also looks, well, old. yay 30 rock though!

And yay madmen! And good night everybody!



Not spoilery, but not very good audio; I'll update with better when we find it. Josh Groban, a band, and 30 theme songs. Special appearance by Animal:

Comments

[eilujspark.livejournal.com]

Eh. It's alright.

Steve Martin was funny though.

I do wonder where the AI cast is. Didn't see them on the red carpet at all.

[jlh.livejournal.com]

Eh which is all right?

Steve and Tommy were both great.

Simon said he wouldn't go again, because they never win. Which they don't; Amazing Race always wins. So they've probably already hit the parties and Simon got to wear jeans and no tie.

[eilujspark.livejournal.com]

Also, I think the reason it's not going so well is that the hosts aren't playing off each other. The interviews with them leading up to the show(including the hilarious "fight" with Ryan and Probst) were funny. Not enough is being done with their "rivalry".

[eilujspark.livejournal.com]

I mean it's just alright. I figured Simon wouldn't go, but I'm a bit suprised about Paula and Randy(although he could have snuck in unnoticed).

[etakyma.livejournal.com]

What made me giggle about the opening was how Heidi was taller than any of the men with her (I know she was wearing heels, but are they all teeny tiny?). I wan't really listening to the blather, but I was looking at them all lined up, and Heidi towering over the hyper little men.

[jlh.livejournal.com]

Now I feel like they should have all come out crawling on the floor with heidi in dom gear on their backs.

[eilujspark.livejournal.com]

Did Kathy mouth "They win every year"?? I kind of love her for that if she did.

[jlh.livejournal.com]

She totally did! HAHAHA.

[eilujspark.livejournal.com]

So basically like when Taylor Hicks won eh? :p

Nah, that's too mean to Probst. Still it should have been Ryan or Tom.

[jlh.livejournal.com]

If it had been Bergeron I really would have been fine with it. I don't think Probst should have got it. That was really lame. But at least it wasn't Howie.

[lilith20godrich.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much for your Emmy coverage - and tour posts about Ryan and Idol.
I really wanted for Ryan to win, because I think he is great at his job - and his job is most difficult one.
But now part of me glad that he lost - because press and all the blogs are unhappy with this nomination, and show and hosts. I read a lot of negative words about Jeff Probst and his victory, but almost everybody saying good words about Ryan - that he was good on a Red Carpet, that he was the best of the hosts, and so on.

[jlh.livejournal.com]

Thank you for reading!

I agree re Ryan. Can you link me to the stuff you're reading? I'm always happy to read people thinking that Ryan did well. I do think that in retrospect people will feel that Ryan did pretty well last year. Defamer certainly was annoyed that Probst won.

[lilith20godrich.livejournal.com]

I read good words about him in live-blogging comments on Pajiba, Television without Pity, ONTD, some other sites.
And to be honest, in my opinion Ryan is the most famous and ambiguous of all the five hosts, many sites and blogs obsessed with him in a negative way, and happy to use every opportunity to say something negative about him. But I haven't saw negative opinion about Ryan's work on this show - even on such a sarcastic sites as Pajiba and Defamer (and they usually obsessively hate him).

[lilith20godrich.livejournal.com]

And please fopgive me for my terrible grammar - english is not my native language.

[lilith20godrich.livejournal.com]

I remembered - Ryan had very awkward moment this night on a red carpet with Kathy Griffin.
What's wrong with her? She looked like she really hates him - not just her usual snarking, but real raw emotions. Calling him a devil, a man whore - it was definitely too much.
I mean, this story with ripped top on some awards show happened five years ago - it's probably time to move on.

[eilujspark.livejournal.com]

I didn't see the Kathy Griffin thing as that bad. I thought it was Kathy's usual shtick. I LOL at the "manwhore" comment. As for the Devil comment, when he said "What does that make you?" she said "A pretty pixie" so I don't think she was serious.

[lilith20godrich.livejournal.com]

I hope it really was not serious, but in the end they looked really annoyed with each other.