Thoughts on the Emmy's...

So here at What Have We Become thought it would be interesting and perhaps entertaining to write our EXACT thoughts on the Emmy's. We wrote it the following while we were watching the Emmy's. How exciting, it's like live blogging, except we post it a day later... We at We planned to watch it together, but sadly that did not end up happening (my fault), so we will be posting two separate posts all about the event, and I hope you enjoy it, and leave comments! If you don’t like it, leave angry comments, we will still enjoy them. So without prolonging it (unlike the Emmy’s) here is what I wrote while watching the 2008 Prime Time Emmy’s last night...

- Oprah begins the night and remind everyone that she’s making people literate and talks about how important the Emmy’s are and TV and stuff, honestly I wasn’t paying attention, sorry

- So the hosts now take the stage. Umm Heidi Klum in a suit is ridiculously hot!!! But she kinda looks confused, as I am, because honestly having five crappy hosts does not mean it will add up to good hosting, quite the opposite. But we shall see. And of course, the first (of many) Sarah Palin jokes! Love it. Also much better to see that the Emmy’s is no longer in a weird rounded stage thing.

- I feel like I’m watching a bad improve class exercise. The five hosts are trying too hard. I

- was that necessary… really? Did Klum need to show everyone that she is actually a woman, unlike the other hosts. The only thing that was fitting with all that nonsense was Shatner being his creepy self, he’s like the Jack Nicolson of the Emmy’s

- Oh Tina and Amy, how I love you two. Marry me, it will be like Three’s Company but better. HAHA Amy, so grand. But I do think the aliens on Mars are offended with what you just said.

- First interesting category: Best supporting Actor in a Comedy Series – and I think NHP should win. And it’s………………. Jeremy Piven… next year NHP, next year.

- I’m excited to hear Josh Grogen or whatever his name is perform TV theme tunes.

- As someone who loves broadcast history, I must say I love the montages about some of the classic shows… LIKE SEINFELD!!!

- I heart you Julia Louise-Dreyfus! Will you be my mom? But like my hot youngish mom.

- Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series UMM KRISTIN better win!!! Seriously. The winner is……………DAMN! Frak Samantha Who.

- Brb, getting a spoon for my kiwi’s , yes I eat kiwi with a spoon.

- Heidi Klum is awkward, and not a powerful female role model at all. (if you haven’t noticed already, reality shows in general make me mad)

- Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series… I choose you Michael Emerson, because really, no one is as creepy as you, the Emmy goes to……. Zeljko Ivanek from Damages, I haven’t seen that show yet, but I shall soon and perhaps then I can say whether he deserves the Emmy.

- Hello Ricky! Teehee Ricky, you are awesome… Steve and Ricky, they should have their own comedy hour, with Jon and Stephen. Now the award for directing variety or music program is….we all know it’s always the academy award director.. Surprise!

- I am drawn to watching Gossip Girl on another channel… what do I do… I shall stick it out with the Emmy’s I suppose.

- I think Conan and Bart should be lovers and have strange half Irish half animated babies

- On to the Supporting Actress in a Drama Series… haha Katherine Heigl joke, love it…. I want Dianne Wiest to win, and the winner is………HOOORAYYYY DIANNE WEST! I miss In Treatment.

- Haden Panettiere and Jennifer Love Hewitt, two people who I’m like, blah about. How much do I love the naming of the writers for the nominated shows… plenty, it’s hilarious. Conan makes me giggle, what with his babies and my wife. Winner for best writing for variety and comedy – Colbert Report! Oh Colbert.

- The camera work is all off; clearly the director didn’t deserve an Emmy for the Oscars. Gosh.

- FUCK YOU HOSTS, so annoying. This is ridiculous and not funny at all.

- Steve Martin, oh Smother’s Brother’s! Love it. I guess it took 60 years for the industry to realize they made a mistake by cancelling the show prematurely… now all we need is a Laugh In mention sometime tonight and it’s all good. Anywho. Great to see all the oldies being mentioned. Tommy Smothers is a grand time filler, let’s hear it for Tommy!

- Oh and it looks like there will be a Laugh In reunion! Can’t wait.

- Finally the TV theme tunes it’s pretty good, Josh, you have impressed me. My favorites: Happy Days, Golden Girls, MISTER ROGERS NEIGHBOURHOD!!!, Addams Family!, MUPPETS SHOW, oh animal… The Jeffersons!, haha Baywatch, Brady Bunch, haha Law and Order just keeps popping up, like it does in my head! FRESH PRINCE!, Gilligan’s Island… bravo.

- Alec Baldwin! What a creepy yet hilarious man. Emmy for Best Lead Actress in a TV series or movie goes to… Laura Linney!

- … umm Laura Conrad.. really? Sigh. What is the world coming to!!!???

- I’m pretty tired, I hope I can survive mediocre entertainment

- Laugh In Reunion! Winner for Outstanding variety, music or comedy series… better not be Letterman… and it is no other then the charmingly hilarious JON STEWART!

- Poor David Boreanaz being paired with Lauren Conrad, so sad. nominations for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series and Actress in a Comedy Series, I predict someone from 30 Rock winning… hopefully Will Arnett and Carrie Fischer, but no apparently not, instead Tim and Kathrin…

- Best Directing for a Comedy Series – BARRY SONNENFEILD better win!!! …and he does! I’m so happy, you have no idea! Anything that is Pushing Daisies related puts a smile on my face.

- Boreanaz looks uncomfortable.

- Best Writing for a Comedy Series, please Emmy Gods and Goddesses, let Bryan Fuller win. Have to say this is probably my favorite category, so hard to choose from!!! Winner – Tina Fey! Okay so it isn’t Fuller, but Tina is one of my many lovers, so I’m still happy.

- Tina, marry me, she always has the best acceptance speeches, all witty and to the point and fantastically grand.

- West Wing tribute. Must admit, never watched the show, hopefully that changes soonish, I do love Aaron Sorkin.

- Christian Apple here to present Outstanding Made for Television Movie, haven’t seen any of these, winner – Recount. Hooray you people who made that made for TV movie about…counting?

- DRAGNET!!! Holy frak, honestly these Emmy’s make me feel smart because I actually know all the references and montages of the classic shows. Thank you Broadcast History class, how much knowledge I received from you!

- I like Lawrence Fishburne red jacket suit. Rawr.

- Outstanding Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie – winner: Tom Willikinson, I am actually happy because I know who he is!

- Tis my favorite duo Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert, I have been waiting for this, seriously, they are the best part of the Emmy’s, I’m just going to sit back and enjoy it. Side note director from Recount won.

- Seems Jon and Stephen were confused with having to present Best Writer for TV Movie, go dude from John Adams, sorry that you got cut off, now if it were Sally Field that never would have happened.

- Ps what the frak is with the camera work? Is it just me? please comment so that I don’t feel crazy about the bad camera takes.

- Howie Mendel, why are you so annoying? Why? Just stop talking, funny thing is when I met him he barely said anything.

- Go M*A*S*H*! Another show that is on my ‘to watch’ list.

- I’m sick of Patrick Dempsey, but I love Sandra Oh, GO CANADIAN… they are presenting some award for Outstanding Miniseries and Movies that I haven’t seen… go Dame what’s-her-name.

- Kathy Griffith’s hair looks crazy! Haha he’s hilarious this Don Rickles is. I want him to be my crazy grandfather and of course they make my least favorite category humorous and uncomfortable, which is of course Outstanding ‘reality’ show - Amazing Race.

- Sally Field is up, oh what a lady, although I would prefer her with a crazy big nun hat… nominees for Outstanding Miniseries, only one I saw Tin Man, but of course John Adams wins, which I must watch, 23 nominations, crazy. Tom Hanks and Sally Field reunite, I can feel my Forest Gump tears coming.

- I don’t like how they are making such a big deal about who will win best reality show host… I mean let’s be honest, they are all nothing compared to the should have been nominated Cat Deeley…plus they make for terrible hosts. Can’t all that reality show business be over with already?

- So many Desperate Housewives commercials

- … Kristin Chenoweth and Neil Patrick Harris… MATCHMADE IN MY HEART!!! And they are presenting Outstanding Individual Performance in Variety, or Music program… go Colbert or Tina! Winner: Don Rickles… yet again the crazy old man. Look at him go.

- Oh Kate Walsh, I love you. So hot. But kinda bad at presenting the award for Outstanding Guest Actress and Actor in Drama Series… I want Glynn Turner to win, seriously, his performance was amazing in In Treatment… and I want Cynthia Nixon to win because she is awesome… And my wishes came true, now these two fabulous winners are presenting Best Director for Drama Series I want Alan Taylor to win, Mad Men!!! And the winner is: Grag Yaitanes for House, still happy with that, for House is grand too. Especially cuz I can get a glimpse of ridiculously hot Olivia Wilde during Grag’s speech. Can you marry me Olivia if you are reading this, I’m not joking….Kate and Wayne are back with Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series… to which I want either Battlestar or Mad Men to win… And it’s Mad Men, bravo!

- Glenn Close here, presenting Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or Movie - winner Paul Giamatti from John Adams, I enjoy him and his brilliant acting, and way to shun your wife. Tis hilarious

- Tis … with Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series, I vote LEE PACE! but the actual winner is…. Alec Baldwin, no surprise there… but sigh, Lee, you will win one day, one day. And hopefully that day Charlie Sheen will no longer be on TV

- Go Tina Fey!!!

- American Ferrara and Vanessa Williams… what is with the audio… clearly problems this year… Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series, I vote for you mom! Winner tis Glenn Close, not my mom, but close enough.

- In Memory… Alice Ghostley woot woot, Cyd Charisse, Deborah Kerr, Estelle Getty, Sydney Pollack, Bernie Mac, Harvey Korman, George Carlin, and many others, you are missed.

- Best Actor in a Drama Series, presented by Keifer Sutherland, thanks Keifer for keeping it short… I want Jon Hamm AND the dude from In Treatment to win, together. And the winner is…. Brian Cranston for Breaking Bad, a show I really really want to watch.

- CRAIG FERGUSON!!! I love you! I love you! Be my room mate right now please, we will have a wonderful time together! We will be creepy scots together (except I’m not Scottish, but you can teach me!)…And Brooke Shield… ohh Craig, ramble more, RAMBLE!!! Teehee… opps, I forget what they were presenting, and tis one of my favorite categories, Outstanding Actress in a TV Series and of course the best woman won (although I do love Mary Louise Parker) TINA FEY!!! Tina and I will be great friends one day, Me, Tina and Craig will be roommates. And Lorne Michale’s can be the weird but rad old man that lives in our basement and tells us to keep it down as we party hard till 8pm and tells us all about the ‘good ol’ days’

- Jimmy Kimmel, a comedian of sorts, sometimes I actually think he’s funny, other times not so much. Here he is presenting the ‘big’ category of Outstanding Reality Show Host… I hope they all lose and Cat Deeley flies onto the stage and smashes them with her charm and Amazonian ways. It is kinda humorous though, Jimmy Kimmel is actually kind of funny, I will admit … can Jeff win, because I think he is the only normal one…and he does.

- OHH MARY TYLER MOORE, I have been waiting for this! I have, I really really have. Mary, oh Mary, be my grandmother! The news room was a grand place indeed! Betty White! Hey girlfriend! Lovin’ the red. Ps Mary Tyler Moore looks amazing! Nominees for Outstanding Comedy Series, I’ve been waiting for this category… I Choose you The Office and 30 Rock, let it be a tie, for in my heart I can’t pick. HOORAY 30 Rock! To see Mary Tyler Moore and Tina Fey together… I stopped breathing… I didn’t really like that Tina Fey promoted 30 Rock…sure it’s one of the most underrated shows, but still… it’s the Emmy’s… anywho, on to à

- Outstanding Drama Series… Mad Men better win… and the Emmy goes toooo - MAD MEN!!! Hooray hooray! Good way to end the night!

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