Christ, that was bad!
I hate to pin all the blame on the five reality show hosts, but boy, I haven’t seen an awards show land with that big a thud so quickly since Rob Lowe danced with Snow White on the Oscars. There was really no saving the show after the first ten minutes. They should have just listed the winners in a scroll and been done with it.
Every time Howie Mandel spoke I felt sorry for him, his co-presenters, the audience and the world. How can it be that this man is on a popular TV show?
Meanwhile, the show clocked in at just about 3 hours but the whole time it felt like it was running two hours long. How ironic that the director of this debacle won an Emmy for his work on this year’s Oscars… and then went long delivering his speech.
Ricky Gervais and Steve Martin were the only presenting highlights I can remember. The rest I’ve blocked out in a bout of post traumatic stess disorder.
As for the winners, it pretty much starts and stops with the fact that Friday Night Lights wasn’t even nominated for a major award. What use are the Emmys in light of that sad fact?
I was pulling for The Office and Lost, but 30 Rock and Mad Men are absolutely worthy. And it was great to see Tina Fey so lauded… she’s more than deserving of the hype.
I was also happy to see The Colbert Report and The Daily Show pick up wins for writing and best show, respectively. Can’t wait to see what Colbert does with the predicted Don Rickles win.
Meet Me In Montauk 
Agreed on all counts. I was desperate for Dana to end the pain and start Entourage. Luckily, I had Facebook to keep my busy during all the dreadful business. I, too, found Gervais the highlight. His “I watched Evan Almighty; give me my Emmy” was one of the funniest lines of the year. And any Emmy Awards show that honors Tina Fey, Jeremy Piven, Alec Baldwin, Jon Stewart and Steven Colbert can’t be all bad, FNL snub aside. Still, the show itself was horrible. Thank God Entourage ended my evening (late night) on a comedic high note.
How could I forget the worst travesty of them all – Josh Groban attempting to rap the theme song for The Fresh Prince of Bel Air? Dear God, it was frightening.