Thursday, July 8, 2010

CLEAR EYES! FULL HEARTS! WILL STILL LIKELY LOSE, BUT IT'S NICE TO SEE THEM NOMINATED: 2010 Primetime Emmy nominations are out. Love, love that in Variety/Comedy/Musical, Conan got nominated but not Jay or Dave, and of all the seasons not to nominate "Survivor" for best reality series, really?

A few more thoughts: As TPE noted as well, I don’t understand how you can nominate three supporting actors from Modern Family and not have Rico Rodriguez as one of them. That kid is aces.

The Office had nine Emmy nominations last year; it has four this year. That strikes me as at least one too many still (Best Comedy Series?), but at least one of the four was the writing for the wedding episode. Non-Carrell actors: shut out. Alongside the wedding episode, comedy writing noms went to the Glee and Modern Family pilots (but not Fizbo?) and two mediocre 30 Rocks. [P.S. The Daily Show episode that received the writing nomination was the Glenn Beck parody.]

Yay! for all the love for The Good Wife, including the much-hoped-for-but-not-generally-predicted Archie Panjabi nom. And Dylan Baker for guest actor? Yes, that was some pretty good silk-robed-maybe-murdering there.

iCarly got a nomination. I hate iCarly. It is a pox.

The Pacific has no actors, apparently.

Awkward: SYTYCD has two choreography nominations – and it’s competing with Adam Shankman’s nom for choreographing the Oscar routines.

“The Man Your Man Could Smell Like” has an Emmy nomination.

Nominees for “original music and lyrics” include SNL’s “Shy Ronnie,” HIMYM’s “Nothing Suits Me Like A Suit,” “This City” from Treme and, um, Family Guy’s “Down’s Syndrome Girl,” from the episode that got them in trouble with Alaska’s former governor. I believe it is the first Emmy nomination for a song rhyming “boner-swinging” with “dingalinging.”

And Anthony Bourdain has an Emmy nomination -- best writing for nonfiction programming, for his "Prague" episode of No Reservations.

112 comments:

  1. The Pathetic Earthling9:01 AM

    No nomination for Rico Rodriguez as Manny Delgado (expecting hell to be paid, per Adam), nor for Sofia Vegara as Gloria, in Modern Family.  

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  2. 1.  Matthew Morrison over Joel McHale in lead actor/comedy is indefensible.
    2.  While I'm pleased no love for Entourage in the Supporting Actor category, still giving a nod to Jon Cryer while overlooking Donald Glover, Danny Pudi, and Nick Offerman is ridiculous.  (Though delighted to see 4 new faces in that stacked category.)
    3.  Weird nod for Sharon Gless as supporting actress/drama for Burn Notice. 
    4.  NPH racks up two nods (for both HIMYM and his Glee guest turn), and Mike O'Malley gets a deserving nod for Glee as well.  (Chenoweth also gets into the field for Glee acting.)
    5.  FNL had a huge breakthrough, not just with the two big (and much deserved) nods, but also a writing nod.

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  3. Carmichael Harold9:07 AM

    <span>It looks like Sofia Vegara was nominated (along with Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Eric Stonestreet and Ty Burrell).  http://www.emmys.com/sites/emmys.com/files/62ndemmys_noms.pdf
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  4. Carmichael Harold9:09 AM

    I agree with all of this.  I found myself surprisingly thrilled at the FNL acting nods (it was surprising b/c I didn't think Emmy nominations could thrill me).  I would add that the Kristin Wiig nod for SNL was also indefensible, as she has become (in my mind) the worst thing about the show that isn't the writing.

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  5. The Pathetic Earthling9:10 AM

    Oops, my bad.  Still, Rico Rodriguez is freaking brilliant.  I don't pay much heed to the Emmys, but that seems an oversight.

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  6. Carmichael Harold9:11 AM

    Oh, and the lack of Cat Deely in reality show host is just wrong, as is the presence of Nurse Jackie in Best Comedy Series (mainly because I don't think it's actually funny).

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  7. Jenn.9:19 AM

    Still going through it, but NPH kind of got another nod, as his opening performance at the Academy Awards was nominated for an outstanding choreography award.  Sure, the choreographer (Adam Shankman) got the actual nomination, but we all know who sold it.

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  8. Also, I like Curb..., but nominating Curb over Community is criminal.  

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  9. O'Quinn is nominated in supporting.  Fox doesn't have a prayer, I think, given how polarizing the finale was in some circles, and that it's really Hugh Laurie's turn.  (Note that he's, quite rightly this year, the show's only major nomination, and his episode submission is Emmy catnip.)

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  10. Jenn C.9:35 AM

    I am bummed about two omissions--Josh Holloway and Community.  And a little bit surprised that Jane Lynch was relegated to supporting.

    But the joy of Conan's noms overshadows all of that.

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  11. Mandee9:36 AM

    I'm rather irrationally angry that Kyra Sedgwick and her ridiculous southern accent got a nod over the incredible work that Katy Sagal has done in Sons of Anarchy. 

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  12. Sorry for the serial posts, but just two more comments.

    1.  I'm not an Emmy historian -- has there ever before been a nomination for an SNL player for "various roles"?

    2.  It seems to me that comparing Lea Michele against Edie Falco in the "Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series" is kind of like asking whether one prefers milkshakes or Tolstoy.  Not because one is clearly better than the other, but because those two roles and the skills they require are just so hard to compare.

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  13. Because of how Glee, Modern Family, Office, and Parks & Rec categorize their performers, the supporting categories are just stacked.  It's also going to make it hard for Modern Family to win acting awards, because there's going to be vote splitting all over the place.

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  14. Fox isn't beating Hamm, Cranston or Laurie.  But I'll accept it as a "most improved actor" nomination.  And Elizabeth Mitchell was nominated for best guest actress for the finale.

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  15. You choose your category at the Emmys, and I think Lynch is rightly supporting.  She drops in for a scene or two in most episodes (and was absent from at least a couple).  Fox also only wanted one lead male and one lead female, and the clear choice on the female side was Lea Michele.  (They allegedly also tried to push Dianna Agron and Jayma Mays in the supporting category pretty hard.)

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  16. Adam C.9:41 AM

    O'Quinn submitted (and got a nod, with Emerson) in supporting rather than lead.  But yeah, I'm a bit surprised that Holloway did not make the cut anywhere, given that Elizabeth Mitchell swung a nod for guest actress (deservedly so).

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  17. Well, it's a pretty stacked category, but wasn't season five more of a Holloway season than this one?

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  18. Adam C.9:45 AM

    I'd say that nominating Curb is very defensible this year -- what is criminal is that The Office and 30 Rock got nods for lousy seasons while Community was shut out.

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  19. Adam C.9:48 AM

    It's hard to complain to much when MF got three acting nods for its men and two for its women.  Rico will get his chance.

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  20. Adam C.9:57 AM

    True, but they don't submit a season's worth of episodes for actors.  And if you're going to recognize Mitchell for her work in "The End," which -- let's face it -- is really all about the vending machine scene, then don't you have to recognize that JH's work was equally critical for that scene to have the resonance it had?  That said, I don't watch Men of a Certain Age or Damages, so I can't compare JH to the work Martin Short or Andre Braugher did.

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  21. Adam C.10:00 AM

    Yeah, someone needs to file a cert petition in Morrison v. McHale, pronto.

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  22. ChinMusic10:03 AM

    The Kristen Wiig nomination must be some kind of inside joke among voters.  If the Emmy people actually needed to nominate her to round out thelist of nominees, maybe it is time to cut down the nominees for that category.  Or maybe the voters could actually watch TV and nominate someone who actually was good at her job.  Maybe Portia de Rossi or Alison Brie to name two of the hundreds of people who deserve this nomination more than Wiig.

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  23. Andrew10:04 AM

    This wasn't all that much of a season for Ben, either -- although Emerson did great work with what he had. I wouldn't necessarily bet on him winning, but my vote in that category would undoubtedly be for Aaron Paul. 

    Matthew Fox certainly deserves a nomination. This season was his best work on Lost by a lot. But he shouldn't be winning an Emmy over Cranston, Hamm, Laurie or Chandler.

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  24. Maybe they submitted an episode in which he didn't rap.

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  25. Andrew10:06 AM

    Parks & Rec and Community should have recei ved nods for best Comedy over 30 Rock and The Office -- they were simply better shows this year. That Parks & Rec wasn't nominated in best comedy is criminal. At least it wasn't shut out completely like Community. (Good morning, Joel McHale. Weren't you glad to be up early this morning?) 

    For a season that put Michael Richards and Leon together, Curb certainly deserves a nod. 

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  26. Carmichael Harold10:06 AM

    Russ, I'm not an Emmy historian either, and I'm too lazy to fact check this, but I think both Poehler and Wiig had similar nominations in the past.

    Also, the milkshake/Tolstoy line just caused me to laugh water up my nose.

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  27. Andrew10:07 AM

    Didn't someone (Amy Poehler, I think) get the nomination from SNL last year for "various roles"?

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  28. I would have thought Glee would also get a nod for Choreography for some number, (Safety Dance?), but I don't watch SYTYCD or Dancing with the Stars to compare.

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  29. lisased10:08 AM

    I gasped when I saw Chandler and Britton's names. I am very pleased. I wish Gilford would have gotten in, though.

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  30. LisaJunior10:09 AM

    Undercover Boss got a nomination and Zack Gilford did not? Oh Emmy voters. Also, best post title ever, Adam!

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  31. Amy Pohler and Kristen Wiig both got nominated for "Various Characters" last year.

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  32. All five choreography nominations involved live shows -- nothing which involved filming and possible retakes.

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  33. Also, I see at least one reader of this fine site among the nominees list.  Congrats to any readers who are on the list!

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  34. I was going to note that, sympathy aside, The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien wasn't really good enough to deserve a nomination, until I looked at the other nominees.  I guess they have to get to five somehow.

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  35. Do you know if that's a requirement or just how the nominators like things?

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  36. And Timberlake won last year for guest actor/comedy as "host."  Betty White may win this year for the same function, though I think her work was less impressive, since it was all variants of "dirty old lady."

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  37. It's probably because Morrison got to cry.  Emmy voters like their comedy nominees to do something dramatic.

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  38. Here's an interesting nomination: Outstanding Voice-Over Performance: The Simpsons • Once Upon A Time In
    Springfield • Anne Hathaway as Princess Penelope

    Is this obscure Emmy going to be enough of a consolation prize for not getting the Oscar for Rachel Getting Married?

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  39. Has SYTYCD been live before this year?  Or is it recorded without retakes so quasi-live?

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  40. No -- both HSM and the made-for-tv Annie have won.

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  41. I don't watch Sons of Anarchy, so I can't compare, but I do think that Kyra Sedgwick does a nice job on the Closer.

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  42. I'm about 3 eps from the end of the most recent Curb seaon.  Did Jeff G have it written into his contract that he'd only return if the show consistently implied that he had all sorts of women just begging to sleep with him?

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  43. And, HA!, Sue Sylvester msut be livid: Glee got TWO hairstyling noms.  It takes a lot of work to orchestrate the greaseball on Will's head, I guess.

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  44. (Also, I haven't gotten to the Richards/Leon meetup, but that sounds awesome.)

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  45. Via the NYT: "With this year’s nominations “Saturday Night Live” earns a footnote in the record books: with a total of 126 prime-time Emmy nods in the last 35 years, including 12 this year, it has become “the most nominated television show in Emmy history,” according to the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. Until today, “ER” had been the most nominated show, with 124 total."

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  46. Sorry for the multiple postings, but this PDF is a long one to get through.  I'm thrilled that Andre Braugher got a nom for his work on Men of a Certain Age.  That show isn't getting the buzz, but it's very, very good.  Ray Romano is a revelation in it and Scott Bakula's versatility is on full display (I went from watching him on Chuck as nerdy scientist dad guy to the aging out-of-work actor Lothario on MoaCA and was impressed.)

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  47. Don't be modest - who among us is an Emmy nominee?  Congratulations!

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  48. Bill Simmons just tweeted his disgruntlement that none of the 30 for 30 docs were nominated.  I wonder which were submitted.

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  49. I don't watch Dexter, but I do watch the Good Wife. I know John Lithgow won a lot of praise in the press for his turn on Dexter, so does Dylan Baker have a shot in hell for what I thought was an EXCELLENT turn on The Good Wife?

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  50. What what?  Dave Barry wrote material for the Oscars?  How did THAT happen?

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  51. The lack of actor nods for The Pacific drives me nuts, though it's not surprising after there were very few (if any) acting nominations for similarly excellent work in Band of Brothers and Generation Kill. In particular, I thought Joseph Mazzello and Rami Malek were outstanding.

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  52. Mandee10:51 AM

    I'm a fan of the Closer, too (in spite of the accent), but SOA is in a completely different league of television.  And Sagal was pretty incredible last season.  It's one of those shows that I started watching because nothing else was on (and because Sepinwall seemed to like it), but it's become one of my favorites.

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  53. I don't watch Dexter (save on DVD delay) but Lithgow is apparently a lock, because he was a major player in almost every episode, and you combine a performer who the Emmys love, who's got name recognition, with a part that is a departure for him (he was the Big Bad for Dexter last season), and you're in good shape.  Baker also has to deal with vote splitting with Cumming.

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  54. spacewoman10:56 AM

    Ditto on the milkshake versus Tolstoy.

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  55. Almost every episode?  Then he shouldn't qualify as guest.  Didn't I hear some rumblings about that category's rules needing reform?

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  56. I'll just be happy if Conan wins an Emmy for The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien. I love that he was nominated.

    I was surprised there was no love for Community/McHale - I thought the announcers typically receive nominations? Bummer. I did love when he smoothly stepped in to pronounce "Hargitay" for Sofia Vergara.

    Interesting that Jim Parsons is in the Lead Actor category while NPH is in Supporting Actor. I like it because hey, how awesome would it be if they both won?! But I'm curious as to why Parsons is considered a lead. Does that mean the rest of the cast are also consisdered leads? I suppose Parsons, Galecki, and Cuoco could be considered leads with Simon Helbrg and Kanal Nayyar as supporting cast members?

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  57. I believe Big Bang submits Parsons, Galecki, and Cuoco as leads and Helberg and Nayyar as supporting.  HIMYM submits only Radnor as a lead, and everyone else as supporting (though Radnor might have dropped down this year).

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  58. It's "submitter's choice"--for instance, even though Chris Noth was credited as a "special guest star" on Good Wife, he chose to run in Supporting Actor.  It used to be you were "guest star" even if in every episode as long as you were billed as such.  (See also Kathryn Joosten, who's nominated again this year for Housewives as a guest actress, despite being at least a recurring player.)

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  59. I thought the pilot of Modern Family was good, but I can think of at least five or six episodes that I think are much more worthy -- Fizbo, definitely, and Starry Night.  I also love Phil's birthday episode, and what was the one where Cam and Mitchell invite Lily's doctor over?  Add me to the list of people who are upset that Rico Rodriguez didn't get a nomination.  That kid is comedy GOLD.

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  60. I am upset by the snubbing of The Carell Corral.

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  61. Also, anyone want to argue for why on earth True Blood is nominated for Drama Series (without, I believe, a single acting nod)?  There were certainly not a shortage of other options out there.

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  62. Category requires minimum one HBO series?

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  63. This is where I'll remind everyone that The Wire, Buffy, Veronica Mars, Freaks and Geeks - and up until this year - FNL, have combined for zero acting zominations and a only a handful of other ones.  I'm not a Gilmore Girls fan like many here, but that's also on the list of the ignored.  Congrats to all the nominees, as many are deserving and from shows I love, but let's not forget that these awards are sort of the worst.

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  64. Professor Jeff11:28 AM

    He's been doing it on and off for years, since Steve Martin invited him for the 2003 show.  The invitation e-mail said:

    <span>
    <p>Hi Dave, it's Steve Martin.
    </p><p> 
    </p><p>I'm hosting the Oscars this year and am trying to put together a team of geniuses to help me write it. Here's my question: do you know any? HA! I'm wondering if the idea appeals to you at all. You, me, Rita Rudner and a few others. Best Oscar monologue ever. California. Tickets to the show. Fame.
    </p><p> 
    </p><p>I know you won't do it, so go (bad word) yourself.
    </p><p> 
    </p><p>Steve
    </p></span>

    Here's a column about Barry's first Oscar gig, and another one about this year's show.

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  65. Joseph J. Finn11:32 AM

    Really, my only major gripe is that Better Off Ted didn't get any nominations, but I imagine ABC wasn't pushing it.  (Seriously, Portia de Rossi deserved a nod and it should have been up there for Best Comedy.)

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  66. Hmph.  I think that should get a closer look.  It's not fair to put a 1-2 episode arc up against a whole season of work.

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  67. Whoever you are that liked this as "Sue", I love you.

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  68. I'm wondering what he'll do with it on The Soup--between this and what I'm sure will be ridiculousness on the Lebronathon tonight, those writers are gonna be working overtime.

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  69. Heather K11:57 AM

    I guess that's how Sue 'C's it

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  70. ChinMusic11:57 AM

    Considering that for some (many?) shows, the voters see only the 1 episode submitted by an actor/actress, it probably doesn't make a difference to your chance of a nomination whether you are in a handful of episodes or virtually every scene.

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  71. Eric J.11:57 AM

    Disappointing, but I imagine that a) sports probably gets less respect from Emmy voters than Sci-Fi does and b) they figure they're eligible for Sports Emmys anyway.

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  72. Anonymous12:05 PM

    General media awareness + particularly good timing.

    The nominating ballots allow for up to 10 selections in a category. There are tons of other options, sure, but if you get to nine choices and want one more (because you'd rather get all your licks in than be strategic about it)? And the deadline for ballot submissions is June 21, and you've just been blitzed with all the Season 3 True Blood promotions, largely gleeful reviews, and the first (quite entertaining) ep? 

    Either that, or it's the whole glamouring business: "Look inta mah eyes.... Now, I would verra much lahke yore Emmy vote...."

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  73. I think Emmy historians are like presidential historians.

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  74. isaac_spaceman1:02 PM

    I like Kristen Wiig.  I'm surprised that she was nominated, because she's largely too bizarre for mainstream tastes and because she doesn't mug.  I get why people don't like her, but that's taste, not talent.  Cryer and Morrison are indefensible; Wiig is not. 

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  75. MidwestAndrew1:12 PM

    I'm glad someone else saw that bit o' happiness last night. Carell + Colbert = Comedy Gold.

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  76. isaac_spaceman1:13 PM

    They're the only historians whose names the general public knows?

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  77. isaac_spaceman1:15 PM

    Funny that every nom for choreo is to somebody associated with SYTYCD, as a judge, choreographer, or dancer.  Those weren't my favorite SYTYCD pieces, but I'll take it. 

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  78. isaac_spaceman1:15 PM

    I would give away my entire like allotment to this comment if I could.

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  79. MidwestAndrew1:16 PM

    Alright: Then who would you have taken off the list? And is he even the best Supporting Actor on his own show? Who's he better than? Mitchell? Phil? Cam? Just curious.

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  80. Genevieve1:18 PM

    But only Amy Poehler actually played various characters.

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  81. Joseph J. Finn1:34 PM

    Seriously, I can name a few that deserved serious consideration.  Nothing for Band?  The Len Bias one?  

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  82. lisased1:34 PM

    Speaking of SYTYCD, are we going to talk about Alex?

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  83. Carmichael Harold1:38 PM

    I like Kristen Wiig, too, in theory (and in film), and there was a point when she was one of the best things about SNL.  I would argue, though, that her contribution to the show has largely devolved into her playing a succession of weirdly similar one-note recurring characters, each of whom may have been funny/interesting when they were introduced, but now seem to reflect a sense of boredom (and the general difficulty of writing hundreds of original comedy ideas every tv season) more than anything else.  She is number one (and probably alone) on my list of people that should leave SNL for their own good.

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  84. Maret1:38 PM

    <span>I'm also sad that Justified was shut out. I love that show and think it, Walton Goggins and Timothy Olyphant deserved nods. As to who I would remove to get them in, for drama, I'd take out True Blood, which I love, but is frothy, silly fun vs. high quality in my mind. And I don't watch Dexter, so can't comment about whether it's deserving. For Actor, I'd put Olyphant in over Fox, who I did think was excellent this year (again, can't comment on Micahel C. Hall or Bryan Crantson, but from what I've heard about Breaking Bad, Cranston is phenomenal and has a good shot at winning.) And for supporting I'd put Goggins in over Braugher, even though I don't watch MoaCA, but I'd guess that Braugher is great but this nod is more leftover Homicide love than for his work on this show.  
     
    Justified also deserves a writing nom or two, and has some great guest turns.  
     
    But overall, this is a MUCH better nomination list than usual.</span>

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  85. Jenn.1:47 PM

    The other thing is that Conan got to pick which shows to submit.  Say he submitted, I don't know, his last week or so of shows.  Those were really good shows---once he'd figured out that he had nothing to lose, he went for broke.  It certainly seems plausible to me that the best of Conan's shows merit a nomination.  I mean, seriously people:  He had the Bugatti Mouse, accompanied by a classic Rolling Stones song.  Who wouldn't want to nominate that?

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  86. Jenn.1:52 PM

    I'm a bit grossed out that Idol has gotten this batch of nods.  They are practically killing the franchise, the themes were awful this year, lip-synched group songs, they routinely ran over time by a substantial amount (I think, off in the distance, I can still hear the cries of outraged DVR-using Glee fans), etc., etc., etc.  Just because it still has a big (albeit shrinking) audience share does not mean that it actually deserved Emmy nominations. 

    Now, I recognize that they base the nomination on a submitted episode, but what episode of Idol this year actually merited a nod?  I think that I read that Idol submitted its finale which, frankly, I thought was awful, setting aside anything to do with the outcome. 

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  87. He's better than Jesse Tyler Ferguson.  Ty Burrell should've been submitted as a lead.

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  88. bella wilfer2:01 PM

    I thought I was the only one who strongly dislikes Kristin Wiig.  She's funny in short doses, I suppose, but she drives me crazy after more than 2 minutes onscreen.

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  89. bella wilfer2:02 PM

    And Carmichael Harold put it perfectly...serves me right for responding before reading all the comments...

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  90. bella wilfer2:04 PM

    The taping I went to last season of SYTYCD was recorded without retakes.

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  91. isaac_spaceman2:30 PM

    I hope to get to it at lunch.

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  92. isaac_spaceman2:33 PM

    Was Justified even eligible for most things?  It started so late in the year, and its best work aside from the pilot was toward the end.  Goggins was basically in one episode, then disappeared for the rest of the first half of the season.  I don't know what the cutoff date is. 

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  93. ChinMusic2:42 PM

    I completely agree with this and Carmichael Harold's point (except the part about Wiig at any point being one of the best things about SNL).  It is not that she is too bizarre; there are a lot of enjoyable things on SNL that are really bizarre.  It is more that the writers of SNL find the humor not in the individual Wiig sketches themselves, but instead, perhaps on a meta level, in the repeated use of the same type of character who is more annoying than entertaining.  It is almost as if Wiig herself is a recurring SNL character who plays a never-ending string of similarly annoying one-note characters.  If, in fact, this is what SNL is going for, I have underestimated the show's writers, but it doesn't make it any less irritating to endure a five-minute sketch of Wiig playing an overeager, oblivious, oddball fill in the blank.    

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  94. I think the degree of difficulty for JTF's role is easy to underestimate (as is also the case with Julie Bowen)--they're playing the straight man to their more overly comic other half, and that takes effort.  Ferguson also has gotten some nice dramatic lifting in the part (his big "how dare you" closing statement was both dramatic and funny)--the show wouldn't work if it didn't have their normalcy to ground things.

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  95. Maret2:56 PM

    Not sure of the cutoff dates but it was defniitely eligible because FX showed an ep (the finale) to Emmy voters while ballots were out at our screening series. Sigh. I mean, there were a ton of great shows this year I just LOVE Justified and am sad it was shut out completely. FX is having a bad day between that and no Sons of Anarchy noms.

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  96. StvMg2:59 PM

    As much as I like Braugher, I thought Romano was more deserving this year.

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  97. Watts3:00 PM

    It makes a difference in terms of buzz/exposure.

    And also in terms of nuance - if you've had several episodes to work out a character's motivations and mannerisms and such, you've an advantage over an actor who did one week's worth of work on one episode. 

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  98. StvMg3:01 PM

    Was The Two Escobars eligible for consideration this go-around? I've watched them all, but I don't think the early ones were nearly as deserving as the two most recent ones (Escobars and the one about the Simpson/World Cup/Palmer/NBA Finals day).

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  99. Watts3:02 PM

    Adding to the death whimpers of AI, I heard this morning on the radio that the tour is being shortened by about 3 weeks.

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  100. isaac_spaceman3:02 PM

    It just seems weird -- I'm sure that the finale of Justified aired like 18 months after the preview pilot of Glee, which was nominated. 

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  101. It's the "Glee Pilot- Director's Cut" which is nominated.  They didn't show the Director's Cut until September  I think.  Though that seems like a sneaky runaround the rules if you can recut your episode a little and get a second shot.

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  102. Assuming it's the episodes which aired through May, from the list I'd have pushed for Winning Time (Reggie) first, and the Steve James doc on Iverson second.

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  103. The eligibility period is June 1 2009 to May 30 2010.   Justified premiered March 16th apparently.   The original Glee pilot was broadcast May 19, 2009.   Which I think means it is the Director's cut broadcast that somehow counts.  Also the last two episodes of Glee from this season won't be eligible until next year as they were broadcast in June.

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  104. Andrew4:13 PM

    I suspect Matt is alluding to friend of the blog Daniel Radosh, who is a writer for The Daily Show. 

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  105. Jenn.6:48 PM

    Bill Carter confirms that Conan submitted his ending run of shows:


    Privately, many NBC executives had been expecting the Conan-fest at Wednesday morning’s nomination announcement. Even NBC executives who now insist that their decision to restore Jay Leno to the 11:35 spot in late night has been vindicated by Mr. Leno’s return to first place in the ratings, quietly acknowledged that the shows Mr. O’Brien submitted for Emmy consideration, the editions when his fate was playing out on the national stage, were extraordinary television.

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  106. That makes sense. I guess Radnor's Ted is the show's main character - even though he is often the least interesting/amusing.

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  107. <span>Watched the Richards/Leon interaction last night.  Brilliant.  (But to be clear, I wasn't saying Curb was unworthy, just that it was less worthy than Community.  I still think that's true, even if other shows nominated might be MORE less worthy.)</span>

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  108. Aimee1:54 PM

    Yeah, I would probably put Ty Burrell as a lead.  I love all of them, don't get me wrong.  All I know that in a show that's full of things I love, Manny is often my favorite thing of all.

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  109. Nancy2:46 PM

    I adore those Old spice ads. I admit it.

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