Those TV awards

Seems like every year I forget to watch the Emmys.

This used to bother me.  Made me feel like I was somehow letting the Sacred Order of the Couch Potatoes down.  Doesn't anymore, not since Ken Levine started blogging.  Ken watches the Emmys so that I don't have to, also so he can drive himself crazy:

What was the Television Academy thinking?? Were they just trying to stir up controversy in a desperate attempt to out rate last week’s Chabad Telethon? Were the results tabulated in Florida? Were the voters simply on peyote as most Americans suspect?

Trust me, if O.J. knew how easy it was to steal an Emmy he and his gunmen would be on stage thanking their parole officers.

The rest of Ken's sober, carefully measured, and entirely unbiased wrap-up is here.

Comments

[joanr16]

Thanks for the link, Lance. My favorite of Ken's comments:

Has Helen Mirren ever NOT won? If there’s a nuclear attack I want to be under Helen Mirren.

Hilarious on many levels.

Trust me, you were better off not watching. 3.25 hours of my life I won't be getting back....

[Linkmeister]

Joan, you're entitled to your pick, obviously, but I'll see it and raise:

Al Gore is the only man who’s won an Oscar and now an Emmy and they’re both considered consolation prizes.

So true, so true.

[Campaspe]

As a woman who has had a crush on James Spader since the days of Pretty in Pink, I will take him over Gandolfini (particularly in the rather weak last Sopranos season) any day. So there.