Thursday, July 16, 2009
40 Jealous Whores / Media Emmys, You Are Killing My Soul
Posted by Ashley Spurgeon on Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 3:18 PM
- No It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia? Really? That little FX wonder is only the funniest show on cable. Go watch "Mac and Charlie Die" and "The Gang Solves the Gas Crisis" and thank me.
- Who still watches Entourage?
- And good God, Family Guy? Not funny. It's about as funny as the time I met up with David Beckham to go fishing on The African Queen. (Where's my millions, Fox?)
- I'm not surprised Tony Shalhoub is unwarrantedly nominated yet again. The Emmys are old and dumb and don't know what's good. That said...
- Nominating Jemaine Clement is just shameless pandering. Don't get me wrong--I love Flight of the Conchords. But do manic-depressive sing-alongs count as acting now?
- Also, how is Sarah Silverman an actress, again?
- If Michael Emerson, the best damn thing about Lost, loses to anyone from Boston Legal, I will shoot someone in the face. I'm aiming for Shatner.
- It really, really hurts me to say this, but House was...not good. Hugh Laurie deserves any and every award in the world, but the show as whole took a significant downhill ride this season. Not even my love of Kal Penn could get me to care.
- Forgive me for going all conspiracy theorist, but I fail to see how No Reservations qualifies as a Nonfiction Series rather than a Reality Program. I suspect the award for Nonfiction Series won't be televised and the Emmys are a bunch of jerks that want to keep the living sex that is Anthony Bourdain out of America's primetime dens.
- Neil Patrick Harris really needs to win Best Supporting Actor because LITERALLY ALL THE OTHER NOMINEES are just playing stranger versions of themselves.
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Great post, but why is it filed under "40 Jealous Whores"? Does the Metro Council vote on the Emmys?
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Sarah Silverman isn't an actress, she's a comedy genius. Let me break it down for you: she's a girl, right? and she says swears!! get it?!
I agree on It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia.
But honestly, who cares about the emmys anyway
People actually care about the Emmys? Television hasn't been worth watching ever since Wonder Years went off air.
This was the last opportunity for the awards to honor Battlestar Galactica and it failed to do so. YEs the finale was hideous but Edward James Olmos deserved far more than he has received.
Philly is funny but I find myself wincing too hard to enjoy it fully. House did suck this last season, especially when they killed Kumar and with the Foreteen thing constantly beating us.
There was a BSG finale? Huh. I don't recall that. Nope. Nothin. Weird how it just suddenly ended at Season 3 and everything afterwards is a vague blur, as if it's been purged from my memory.
I don't watch HIMYM, but I do love me some NPH. And I love what he said about his nom:
"Being asked to host the show—terrific. Getting a third nomination—fantastic. Having the ability to scribble my name in the envelope backstage when no one is looking—priceless."
Glad to see Emerson and LOST got shouts. I don't watch hardly any broadcast TV any more, but I won't miss a single ep of LOST.
Emerson is the creepiest personality on TV since Wolf Blitzer.
I forgot to say NPH deserves to have a John Larroquette type of run with the Emmys.
I have a really weird and pathological crush on Michael Emerson. Everyone needs to get to the internets and find clips of him during a guest arc he did on "The Practice" years ago. Surprise surprise - he was a bad guy!
Nothing for the last season of The Shield, which had maybe the most devastating wrap-up of any dramatic series I've ever followed? And where the hell is Walton Goggins? At least Nip/Suck got shut out too.
Nice surprises: Justin Timberlake for SNL, Seth Green for Robot Chicken, and a reward for Holly Hunter's copious nudity on Saving Grace.
"I forgot to say NPH deserves to have a John Larroquette type of run with the Emmys."
Only if he sings.
I really want "True Blood" to win for Outstanding Main Title Design. Not even kidding - HBO has the longest opening credits in the history of TV, and "True Blood" is the only show I don't fast-foward through. It's a good song and I like the naked people. I like the show too, but I don't want to hear any whinging about a lack of nominations. It's camp.
If an awards show is killing your soul, you really need to work on your soul. But then don't we all.
Besides, TV hasn't been any good since The Rockford Files went off. Okay, maybe Hill Street Blues.
I can't think of a single reason in the whole world why I should care what a lib like Spurgeon thinks about my favorite show, Family Guy. Neither she or anyone else on the planet can prove it isn't the funniest show ever in the history of television. It IS the funniest, no matter what YOU say.
All Democrats are commies.
Good call Gilbert Jr. I think that is a GREAT show, especially since someone at the Scene (which I use as liner for my bird cage btw)doesn't like it. I think that the funniest television is when O'Reilly or Hannity shout down some hippy, fascist libtard. That is LOL funny. The fact that they don't win Emmy's is proof positive that the Emmy's are controlled by fascist commies.
