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BWE LIVEBLOGS THE 2008 EMMYS!

www.bestweekever.tv - 21st Sep 2008

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Jimmy Kimmel: 7:55: Good evening! Chances are you're all riled up from the pretty hilarious Jimmy Kimmel special which just completed. Or perhaps, like me, you're still recovering from Tropic Thunder last night (better late then never, I say). Either way, you better calm the f**k down, because we've got THREE hours of television awards show coverage to get through.

And away we go!

7:57: Ummmmm I just realized that Tom Bergeron will be partially hosting the show. I take back what I said before: GET F**KING PSYCHED RIGHT NOW.

8:00: I donnnn't really get the opening segment, but Helen Mirren just threatened to wife abuse me, John Krasinski quoted Joey from Friends, and the cast of Everybody Loves Raymond made an appearance. So I'm thrilled.

8:02: OH HELL YES. Oprah is opening the show! Wearing a dress my mother would probably suggest she purchased at the world renoun Otto the Tent Maker. But hey, she's Ope, and looks great.

8:03: An Oprah book club joke got a round of applause. Expect things to go downhill from here.

8:04: Heidi Klum just walked onto the stage dressed in a tuxedo. And with Ellen DeGeneres landing a Cover Girl gig, there's some bizarro stuff going down. Sadly for Klum, Ryan Seacrest is still prettier.

8:06: Notice how hard it is for Jeff Probst to ignore Howie Mandel's vagina beard. His entire body is turned away from Mandel, and yet clearly, it's the only thing on his mind.



8:07: PS This opening bit is TERRIBLE. They keep saying they have nothing, and Heidi must have been told to behave "coldly". There is no magic happening here.

8:08: The Shat just pulled a Puerto Rican Day Parade on Ms. Heidi Klum and ripped her clothes off. How very Shatly of him.

8:09: Tina Fey and Amy Poehler arrive to fix things. Tina's ditched her Palin glasses, and Amy is a pregnant golden goddess. And now it's Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series! Aww there's Steve Carell! Here's hoping for Two and a Half Men!!! I'm praying for a TAAHM sweep this year... my entire retirement fund depends on it.

8:10: Jeremy Piven WINS AN EMMY AND BROUGHT SOMEONE WHO ISN'T HIS MOTHER??? Let's take the time to remember a simpler, balder Piven back in 1994's PCU. WHOAAAAA Piven disses the opening! It's hilarious, but he better appreciate those three Emmys because Bergeron is going to have him killed.

8:16: And Seacrest and Bergeron are on the Seinfeld set. I wonder if this will be a look back to when sitcoms still mattered/were funny.

8:18: Nineteen minutes in, and we get to relive our favorite masturbation plotline not taken directly from a Todd Solondz movie.

8:19: Julia Louis-Dreyfus looks FANTASTIC. She's here to announce Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series. It's pretty awesome that Amy Poehler was nominated, but awesomer yet that Jean Smart is still being recognized.

8:20: I'm right on top of that, Jean! Don't get me wrong, I live for J.J. Smart, but I kinda sorta wanted Poehler to win it. Also, am I watching a real awards show? I'm sort of uninvolved. I wish Alec Baldwin were hosting.

8:24: SIGH. It's so cold in here. Please keep me company in the comments. I may have just OD'd on cucumber rolls.

8:26: Nooooowww I understand what Heidi's up to. She's pulling a Cher! So far, she's on her third outfit (Tux, and then sequinny shorts number). How many do you think she'll change into over the course of the night. I'm going to set the bar at 15.

8:26: Without the power of the post-show Project Runway voiceover, Heidi Klum is a terrible host. They should have had her tape her lines in advance, and asked her to lip synch em.

8:27: ABC brings out the cast of Desperate Housewives. Some botox just came out of my remote control.

8:29: John Slattery was robbed!! No one, and I mean NO ONE, could puke on a stairwell like this man. Recount!

8:30: Ricky Gervais is there. Let's see if he can crack this audience.

8:31: America Ferrera is loving it! Aaaaaaand it's a highlights reel.

8:32: HIGHLIGHT OF THE NIGHT ALERT!!!! Jacquee Y'all!



The liveblog continues ahead...

8:33: Gervais and Steve Carell are arguably the funniest people there. Stewart and Colbert are dying. It's clear now that Carell is a genius, in that he does not crack up ONCE! You think you're going to see a single tear, and nothing. The man does not break.

8:35: Louis J. Horvitz wins an Emmy for directing the Academy Awards. Here's hoping he wins an Academy Award for directing the Emmys. Knowudimean? UP NEXT: Groooooobaaaaan!

8:40: The Simpsons make a cameo, featuring an animated Conan O'Brien! And it's not even specially made for the event... it's an old clip. SIGH. Thankfully, Conan's hair looks fabulous.

8:42: Conan disses Katherine Heigl. That's gotta be worth something, right?

8:43: Jennifer Love Hewitt raided my Grandmother's Hungarian couch throws. Discuss.

8:44: The best part of hte night: The writing for a variety show category! Where the writer's get to put together their own nomination reels. Colbert's crew reenacts their holiday party; The Daily Show shows randoms from probably the Republican National Convention; Conan O'Brien does a pretty hilarious Angelina Jolie joke; Letterman uses Dr. Phil (pause for boos); and SNL uses Nintendo Miis. Colbert takes it! Head writer Allison Silverman is nothing short of amazing. Congrats to all of them!

8:49: Fast forwarding through Ernst and Young BS...

8:50: Steve Martin does not age. Seriously, somewhere in a closet, there is a pasty man with white hair (i.e. Steve at 35.)

8:53: I know no one else really cares, but I am OVERJOYED to see Tommy Smothers still kickin. He looks fantastic! I wish his Emmy was holding up a Yo Yo.

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