Hi! Your freshman year of high school here. Did you miss me? Probably not since you heard this mornings Emmy announcements, I’m thinking.
Emmy has favored dumped Tonight Show host Conan O’Brien with a nomination, giving a big ol’ step off snub to current host Jay Leno . Also left standing on the curb? Multiple winner David Letterman–for the first time since first debuting on CBS in 1994.
Also nominated was comfort TV favorite Betty White for her guest hosting duties on Saturday Night Live. We love us some Betty here on The Side Dish, but, goodness… statue-worthy?
What does this tell us? Emmy’s a mean girl. She favors who’s in and dumps slushies in the faces of those who aren’t. Witness the snubbing of accused domestic abuser Charlie Sheen, who nonetheless shoulders much of the comedic heavy lifting for CBS’s Two and a Half Men. The hot new quarterback in school, Glee, leads the pack in nods. And sometimes it seems that nominations are handed around simply because there isn’t anybody else to fill the category (The New Adventures of Old Christine, really?)
Then again, we’re discussing an award which includes a category for Best Main Title Design (Nurse Jackie vs The Pacific– oh, truly, a Best Title Design showdown for the ages!)
Closing the circle: Leading the Awkward! Moment! Brigade is the fact that Emmy broadcast host Jimmy Fallon, who (properly) failed to garner a nomination in the category of Best Variety, Music, or Comedy Series. As NBC has the rights to the program (it airs August 28 on DISH 75 at 8 PM ET), the choice of Fallon was no shock; the network is still reeling from the Leno-Conan drama, and is pretty much sitting Leno in a corner for the moment. At the same time, however, Fallon will have the joy of standing offstage while the likes of Bill Maher’s name is announced in the list of nominees (yes! Bill Maher has a show! I know, right?)
The Academy of Television Arts and Sciences: The slam book of the new millennium.
