{"id":308,"date":"2007-09-16T20:23:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-17T00:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/?p=308"},"modified":"2007-09-16T20:23:00","modified_gmt":"2007-09-17T00:23:00","slug":"bloggin-the-emmys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/2007\/09\/16\/bloggin-the-emmys\/","title":{"rendered":"Bloggin&#8217; the Emmy&#8217;s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Emmy night. Really the only award I care about is whether Kiefer Sutherland will beat Gandolfini for Best Actor. I don&#8217;t think he will but we&#8217;ll see.<\/p>\n<p>The awards seem to be going ok so far, even with Seacrest hosting. Stewie and Brian opened with a song and dance peppered with digs at the other networks (except FOX, hehe) and Seacrest was mildly funny (and blessedly brief.) <\/p>\n<p>Was glad to see Terry O&#8217;Quinn win. I lurve him. They&#8217;re doing the show &#8216;in the round&#8217; which is a little strange and offputting.  The actors look a little lost when they finish their speeches. They don&#8217;t know which way to go to get offstage.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve somehow hit some button on my remote console that has turned on close captioning. I do not know which button out of the myriad of buttons on this damn thing turns it off.<br \/>Whahey, Thomas Hayden Church won for something&#8230; cool!! I loved him on Wings.<\/p>\n<p>You know I don&#8217;t like the music that they jack up to get the actors offstage. I know they have time issues, but you know, it&#8217;s a big moment for some of these actors. They should get enough time to gush and cry and thank God, their drama teachers from high school, their gardeners.. I&#8217;d watch it all.<\/p>\n<p>Aww Jon Cryer&#8230; He will forever and always be&#8230; the Duckman. Best writing in a comedy series. The nominee short films were freakin&#8217; hilarious. Conan&#8217;s writing team won. Good for them \ud83d\ude42 <\/p>\n<p>Close captioning still bugging me. Which bloody button shuts it off???!!! Argh.<\/p>\n<p>Hmmm Tony Bennett and Aguilera&#8230; Not bad. I especially like the dancers in undone tuxes. Yum. Ok I know Christina can sing and all. Good set of pipes and all that but I&#8217;m just not a fan of the runs she does. Let&#8217;s hit every note on the scales while singing one word. Yawn.<\/p>\n<p>Oh man Kiefer looks damn good presenting. &#8216;Scuse me while I go have a cold shower. Holy cow how cool, Robert Duvall won the award he was presenting and Duvall made a point of telling everyone what a good horseman Kiefer is. Cool \ud83d\ude42 Oh turn off the music already, it&#8217;s Robert freaking Duvall. Let the man tell his story.<\/p>\n<p>Standing O for Roots. Teh awesome. Took me a long time to get used to seeing Levar Burton as Jordy on TNG. I remember seeing Roots back in the day so he was always Kunta to me. <\/p>\n<p>Yeah I think it&#8217;s gonna be a Soprano&#8217;s kind of night. Despite Imperioli not winning Best Supporting, it just won for Best Director. Aaaand it just won for Best Writing.<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Show wins. Again. Which is great \ud83d\ude42 It&#8217;s a good show.<\/p>\n<p>Ahhh found the blasted button. Closed captioning is now gone and I can get on with my life.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah ok I&#8217;ve skipped a bit. The Jersey Boys just did a nice little tribute then they trotted out the cast of the show for a final bow which was nice. I don&#8217;t remember the Emmy&#8217;s doing so much for a specific show before. Have they? I could be wrong.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s 8:47pm CT so the show is about 1\/4 of the way over&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Jaysis they&#8217;re STILL doing awards for miniseries stuff. Oh but that&#8217;s cool, Helen Mirren just won. I&#8217;ve met her you know. She rocks. She looks awesome.<\/p>\n<p>Wow. Al Gore just won an Emmy. Interactive TV something or other. Word.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m starting to get sleepy. Nearly 9:30 now and we&#8217;re only at Best ___ for a Reality Competition.<\/p>\n<p>For the record, I&#8217;m going to bed once Kiefer <s>loses to Gandolfini<\/s> crushes the competition. I&#8217;ll find out who won the rest in the morning \ud83d\ude42 If OJ Simpson doesn&#8217;t dominate the news.<\/p>\n<p>Ah ok on to Best Actor\/Actresses in Comedy. Surely that means its nearing the end&#8230;  Sally Fields is stuttering on stage and I believe she was just censored. How funny. &#8220;If the mothers ruled the world, there would be no God-&#8221; dead air.<\/p>\n<p>And now the In Memoriam but. Sniffle. Steve Irwin&#8230; Joel Siegel&#8230; Peter Boyle&#8230; Jack Palance&#8230;Jane Wyman&#8230; Tom Poston&#8230; Ed Bradley&#8230; Pavarotti&#8230; Merv.. <\/p>\n<p>Hey cool Ugly Betty won. Right on. Very nice speech.<\/p>\n<p>Kiefer time&#8230;. Fingers crossed&#8230; Aaaaaand&#8230;. Fuck. James Spader. I was so wrong. Well that&#8217;s not unusual. Man, He doesn&#8217;t look like Stef from Pretty in Pink anymore \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>This livebloggin thing is fun by the way&#8230; This way, tomorrow when the coworkers are yakking about the awards around the watercooler, I can just say, &#8220;Just read the blog. I said it all there.&#8221; I can&#8217;t wait.<\/p>\n<p>30 Rock wins Best Comedy series. I didn&#8217;t know it was still on the air. But good on Tina Fey, I like her.<\/p>\n<p>Helen Mirren is up now presenting the final award of the night, Best Drama. Winner is, Soprano&#8217;s. That&#8217;s great \ud83d\ude42 I&#8217;m happy for them. Damn the cast takes up the whole stage. <\/p>\n<p>So that&#8217;s the end. 3 hours and fifteen minutes. Not bad really. Was an OK show, nothing spectacular. The thing I think they&#8217;ll be talking about the most on Defamer is the mispronunciation of Katherine Heigl&#8217;s name by an announcer and her correcting them when she got to the microphone \ud83d\ude42 Everyone else will be gushing about Jon Stewart, Colbert and Carrell&#8217;s group hug \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Emmy night. Really the only award I care about is whether Kiefer Sutherland will beat Gandolfini for Best Actor. I don&#8217;t think he will but we&#8217;ll see. 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