Emmy recap

This years Emmy's were a bit of a downer... Shows that deserved to win were snubbed by shows/actors that have been cancelled. It used to be that if you died, you won the award, but now, if your show got cancelled, you get an award (GO AWAY WILL & GRACE!). Wasn't that show off the air a long time ago?

To make this list as easy as possible, I have created 2 categories. Agree, Disagree and Toss Up. I have alsoincluded awards that were given out at the Creative Emmy Awards. Comments by moi are in italics.

AGREE:
Outstanding Supporting Actor In A Comedy Series:
Jeremy Piven - Entourage (HBO)
I hope that Will Arnett from Arrested Development was a close second to Jeremy Piven, and am thankful that Will & Grace did not win.
Outstanding Reality-Competition Program: The Amazing Race (CBS)
While I am slightly obsessed with Project Runway and have always loved Survivor, Amazing Race is the one reality show where things are fast paced and contestants get to see the world, instead of being trapped on an island or stuck in a Parson's Design workroom. While all three shows boast the obligatory gay character, nothing beats a gay couple backpacking around the world trying to win a race. You know that they will get on each other nerves and the one liners they deliver will be awesome.
Outstanding Comedy Series: The Office (NBC)
YES! Great show! Totally deserved this award! This show was almost cancelled by NBC and has gone on to great ratings and now an emmy. Perhaps FOX should take a cue from this show the next time a great show like Arrested Development falls in its lap.
Outstanding Casting For A Comedy Series, Outstanding Writing For A Comedy Series, Outstanding Single-Camera Picture Editing For A Comedy Series AND Outstanding Directing For A Comedy Series: My Name Is Earl (NBC)
Again, well deserved. PLUS... 2 of the winners had some of the best speeches of the night! Jamie Presley was snubbed for an award for her character Joy, at least her acting and the rest of the cast were able to deliver the writing to allow it win an award.

DISAGREE:
Outstanding Lead Actress In A Comedy Series:
Julia Louis-Dreyfus - The New Adventures of Old Christine (CBS)
So Julia Louis- Dreyfus doesn't win for Elaine, but for some crappy character Christine? Does anyone even watch this show? I watched the pilot, and that was rough. This one should have gone to Jane Kaczmarek of Malcom in the Middle.
Outstanding Lead Actor In A Comedy Series: Tony Shalhoub - Monk (USA)
Seriously, this is Tony Shalhoub's third win for this character. This stupid, annoying, not nearly as entertaining as Antonio Scarpacci from Wings beats out Steve Carrell, Kevin James, Larry David and Charlie Sheen? I don't get it at all...
Outstanding Individual Performance In A Variety Or Music Program:
Barry Manilow - Barry Manilow: Music And Passion (PBS)
"I lost to Barry Manilow ... I lost to the Copacabana," wailed Colbert.
Outstanding Reality Program: Extreme Makeover: Home Edition (ABC)
IF THIS AWARD WAS GIVEN FOR REALITY SHOW WITH THE MOST SHOUTING THROUGH A MEGAPHONE BY A REALLY ANNOYING GUY, then the right show won. This category was slim pickins, but the real winner here should have been Penn & Teller: Bullshit! (Showtime) who at least push the envelope in their show. How many crying designers and wacked out theme rooms can one person watch?
Outstanding Directing For A Variety, Music Or Comedy Program:
78th Annual Academy Awards ABC)
Seriously, this wins EVERY year! And how hard is it to direct an awards show. Cut 1, people walking onto stage to present. Cut 2, people announcing the nominees. Cut 3,4,5,6,7 shots of nominees. Cut 8, winner walking to stage. Cut 9, Winner speaks and walks away. And I am pretty sure that the other nominees have much higher ratings then the Academy Awards (American Idol Finale, The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, SNL).
Outstanding Variety, Music Or Comedy Special: The XX Olympic Winter Games Opening Ceremony (NBC)
I can think about 500 things bettern than a 6 hour program of watching athletes in windpant suits, waving flags while walking out to bad Euro music on an equally cheesy Euro set. I guess it's better that this won than the 78th Annual Academy Awards, let's spread the awards around to all the shitty awards shows.

TOSS UPS:
Outstanding Variety, Music Or Comedy Series AND Outstanding Writing For A Variety, Music Or Comedy Program: The Daily Show with Jon Stewart (Comedy Central)
Two very well deserved awards, but couldn't one of them gone to The Colbert Report? Where is the truthiness in this, I ask you!
Outstanding Drama Series: 24 (FOX)
Ok, I have seen bits and pieces of this show, and I hear nothing but good things. I am definitely glad that The Sopranos did not win, the show has been a let down lately. Mobster comas are not as exciting as possible dead presidents.
Outstanding Lead Actor In A Drama Series: Kiefer Sutherland - 24 (FOX)
Same sentiment as above, except... I really wanted Denis Leary to win this award. Rescue me is as innovative a show as 24, with great characters and writing. I also would have liked to see Peter Krause, Nate of Six Feet Under, to win, plus he had the whole cancelled series thing going for him. Six feet under was snubbed by most award shows it was nominated for, and this would have been a nice win for the series. I guess saving the world in 24 hours is more important than being a fireman and running a funeral home.

Overall, the Emmy's were crappy. Crappy people won. Crappy shows won. However, Conan was a good host. Grey's Anatomy was a virtual shut out (only winning some creative Emmy's). Lost was complete out of the competition with no nominations, after they dominated last years Emmy's. The Aaron Spelling tribute was unwatchable, and way to long, but it might have been a record for the most TV celebrities with too much plastic surgery on one stage. Someone call The Guinness Book of World Record, or Ripley's Believe It Or Not (which might be a better fit come to think of it.)