58th Emmy Award
Aug 29th, 2006 by Ashley
58th Prime time Emmy hosted by my favorite late night show host, Conan O’Brien. This was his second time hosting the Emmy, pity that I missed the first time. He hosted Emmy in his late night show style; therefore I was fully entertained. He’s just my cup of tea.
The opening skit was hilarious. If you are familiar with TV shows to a certain leval, you should have no trouble distinguishing one from another.
Some are going to file complaint about the opening skit. In the skit, Conan was on a plane heading LA and was asked if he was nervous. Right after he answered, “Nervous? What could possibly go wrong?” and the plane started to shake. And then Conan appeared on the shore of a island which resembles the one in LOST. It was hilarious, but people in Kentucky didn’t share the laugh. The same day, prior to the opening skit, an airplane crashed in Kentucky resulted in 49 death. People there were shocked and outraged watching the skit. I don’t mean to be insensitive or lack of sympathy, but if you were still overwhelmed by the tragedy, why the hell were you watching Emmy and got offended? It’s clearly a parody of LOST, Office, 24, House and etc. Relax, people.
Enough for the politics.
Watching Conan hosting an award show made me think of Jon Stewart’s tragic Academy Award. (By tragic, I didn’t mean he wasn’t good, but the evening was wihout a doubt awkward.) I know it’s not fair to say that Conan did a better job than Jon. Afterall, Emmy is for TV people and Oscar is for movie, and it’s my belief that people work in TV have better sense of family then movie people. Both of them are from TV and it’s understandable that those Hollywood super stars didn’t click with Jon’s New Yorker irony.
After defending for Jon, I still have to say, Conan O’Brien made it a super fun night. You’ve all seen the hilarious opening skit, Conan brought us more than just a skit. During his prologue, he started to sing “We’ve got trouble” adapted from The Music Man (video at the bottom). And it was really great! I even clapped in front of the TV. And the way he reminded people to keep their acceptance speech short was brilliant too. (picture on the right.) He put I-forgot-his-name in an air-tight tube saying the air’s only enough for 3 hour. It was way much better than “beaten by orchestra” thing (I forgot who did it and on which award show.)
Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewert presenting the award for “Best Reality/Competition” show was another highlight of the night.
Stephen was awesome. He’s my another cup of tea. Standing next to Stephen, Jon looked much shyer and restricted. I just don’t know why he kept winning the awards. Guess I haven’t touched the essence of his show, who knows.
Acceptance speeches tend to be the same, but some managed to entertain the audiences while giving thanks. One mentioned several people that he didn’t want to share the award with and some just made it simple and great.
It was overall a very great award show. (Except the fact that most of the people I wished they’d win didn’t win.)
Great award show I can remember:
2006 Emmy
2005 Critics Choice
2004 Tony’s
1996 Academy Awards
I think that Jon’s esoteric contextual references may make some of his stuff hard to pick up…or maybe he’s just not funny to you? :-) For me however…Jon Stewart’s satirical humor, sense of irony and ability to play the straight man for his own jokes makes him a comedic genius. He is hands down my favorite comedian.
Well, guess Jon and I just don’t click. Love Colbert instead :-D