The Emmy Awards!!!

It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year

Let’s face it – we’re a little too into TV. Some might call it a sickness. So for us, the Emmys are basically a holiday. This year was easily the best show in our memory. Neil Patrick Harris should host every awards show – and produce it, because you could definitely see the difference he made. We loved the genre format (the awards were broken down into Comedy, Reality, Variety, TV Movie/Miniseries, and Drama, saving the best show in Comedy and Drama for last). I’ve read some people complaining about being bored during the middle sections, and a surprisingly large number of complaints about the dancing section (which we loved, of course). We thought it kept a nice pace. It was much easier to keep track of what awards had been given out and what we were still waiting for throughout the night.

Some of our highlights from the night:

• NPH’s opening number was delightful. Throughout the night he kept it classy and hilarious. He is made of win.

• The choice to have John Hodgman as the announcer was genius. He made us not fast forward through the awkward walk to the stage, while he announced completely made up facts about the winners before slipping the “has been nominated # times, and this is the # win” business. The one that killed us was in the special event section when the guys who wrote Hugh Jackman’s Oscars opening number were walking to the stage. “This was the first time a musical number was written for a wolverine”.

• We personally LOVED the glasses bit that Amy Poehler dreamed up for the Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy nominees. Vanessa William’s refusal to wear them was clearly part of the bit (what-up with EW and other bloggers not getting that it was part of the joke?), and the whole thing slayed us.

• Cheno wins!!!! In our heart of hearts we wanted her to win, but didn’t think it would happen. Pushing Daisies was cancelled, after all. Kristen Chenoweth looked stunned. She’s was an adorable and so appreciative – and her dress was so shiny! ''Thank you for recognizing me for a show that's no longer on the air.''

•  Surprise Cat Deeley! NPH clearly demanded her presence, since she totally should have been at least nominated, if not awarded, Best TV Reality Host. Since she was completely snubbed in that regard, it was a nice surprise to find her backstage telling us to vote for some weird made-up viewer choice award, brought to you by Jergens, or something weird like that. I could care less about the award, but HEY GIRL HEY! At least she got to pop up at the beginning and end of the show to talk to us about it, and then go hang out with her SYTYCD babies backstage.

• Toni Collette was a surprise, but not at all undeserved – she acts her ass off on United States of Tara. The real star of this category, however, was Sarah Silverman’s mustache. She knew there was no way in hell she would win. So at least she guaranteed herself some good laughs, extra screen time, and a picture that will be popping up all over the internet today. Well played, girl.

• The Dr. Horrible bit was everything we could have dreamed of and more. The buffering gag was great. So nice to see Nathan Fillion, Felicia Day, and Simon Helberg (Moist) pop in too! Thanks for making up this category for Dr. Horrible to win, Schmemmys!

 

• Michael Emerson wins Emmy - impregnates Courtney while doing so. This was another triumph that we wanted so badly, but had a sinking feeling that it wasn’t possible . . . and then there he is, being all adorable and super classy!

There were of course a few disappointments (really, John Cryer winning? Not NPH, or ANYONE ELSE in the category besides him? Whatevs), but over all this was an awesome evening.

PS: This just in from Bonnie:

Bonnie Henry Bishoff: AND Krstin C. (above) is dressed by Jay Woods, an MCLA theatre grad from around 1993!!!! His name is still on the wall in the costume room. He also does UGLY BETTY and lots of stuff on B'way.