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Emmy Nominations 2012: 'Louie,' 'Girls,' Bill Hader, 'Community' and So Much More

by | July 19th, 2012

The 2012 Emmy nominations are out, and they're chock full of pretty excellent choices in the comedy world. Modern Family has a boatload of nominations, as usual, getting a nod for best comedy series, six different supporting actor/actress nominations, and a bunch of others. Some more surprising nominations include Community's first nomination, for Chris McKenna's writing of "Remedial Chaos Theory." Girls had a great showing, getting nominated for best comedy series as well as Lena Dunham getting nominations for acting, writing and directing. Louie got in there again with nominations for lead actor, writing and directing, and Louis CK's Live at the Beacon Theater got nominated for Outstanding Special [...]

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83% of Your Favorite Famous Funny People Will Be On Stage at The Comedy Awards

by | April 24th, 2012

Look, I don't know if precisely 83% of your favorite famous funny people will be on stage at the Comedy Awards. But really, it seems accurate enough when you see this list of people who will be participating: Chris Rock, Will Arnett, Tracy Morgan, Maya Rudolph, Adam Scott, Jon Stewart, Hannibal Buress, Ty Burrell, Louis C.K, Chevy Chase, Paul Feig, Tina Fey, Melissa McCarthy, Wendi McLendon-Covey, Annie Mumolo, Amber Nash, Jim O’Heir, Chris Parnell, Amy Poehler, Maya Rudolph, The Gregory Brothers, Aisha Tyler and Kristen Wiig. Also, more people will be announced later this week, potentially getting that figure up to like 87%.

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Brian Grazer to Replace Brett Ratner as Oscars Producer, Is Trying to Get Eddie Murphy Back

by | November 10th, 2011

Producer/haircut Brian Grazer has stepped in to replace bearded bro-child Brett Ratner as producer of the Oscars. Ratner had stepped down from the job after speaking the way he normally speaks to friends about gay people and women, but this time did it in front of cameras and microphones. Duh, Brett! That's basic PR stuff: always pretend to not be as gross as you are when microphones are around.

Yesterday, Eddie Murphy also dropped out of hosting the awards, although Grazer is reportedly trying hard to get him back on board. Ratner directed Murphy in Tower Heist, a movie Grazer produced. Whatever happens, we've just [...]

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Amy Poehler on Nick Offerman's Emmy Snub: "It's a hot load of bullshit."

by | July 14th, 2011

Amy Poehler sums up Nick Offerman's Emmy snub nicely: "It's a hot load of bullshit that he didn't get a nomination, and you can quote me on that."

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The Emmy Nominations Are Here! Melissa McCarthy, Louis C.K. FTW

by | July 14th, 2011

The Emmy nominations have been announced, and you can finally rest easy: Matt LeBlanc got the nom for Outstanding Lead Actor. Oh, also Louis C.K., if you were interested. Emmy presenter Melissa McCarthy was also nominated for her sitcom Mike & Molly, which resulted in a lot of flustered, charming laughter during the telecast. We'd also like to give a special Emmy shout-out to Spitsider's very own contributor Sarah Schneider, for her nomination as part of SNL's writing staff in the category of Outstanding Writing For A Variety, Music Or Comedy Series. Because this is how Splitsider gets it done. Check out the nominees…after the jump!

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Are the 'Comedy Awards' a Thing Now?

by | May 7th, 2012

Last night, the Comedy Awards aired on Comedy Central. After last year's ceremony, we discussed the Comedy Awards' biggest problem – it's an award show. From the Oscars down to whatever Nickelodeon's award show is called, the actual honor inherently doesn't really mean anything beyond it's nice to win things and it's nice when people we like win things. So the Comedy Awards, which seem even more trivial because they are so young, are nice because our favorite people get to be honored. They can, and will, self-deprecate towards it but it's still a worthy moment for people who wouldn't otherwise get that level of moments. As Paul [...]

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Jon Stewart to Present Don Rickles with the Johnny Carson Award For Comedic Excellence

by | April 2nd, 2012

The Comedy Awards, which tape in New York on April 28 and will air on Comedy Central on May 6, will honor Don Rickles with "Johnny Carson Award For Comedic Excellence." The award was to David Letterman by Bill Murray last year; Jon Stewart will be handing over to Mr. Rickles this year.

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16 Years Later, Defending David Letterman's Notorious Oscar Hosting Performance

by | August 25th, 2011

In more ways than one, David Letterman couldn’t win at the 67th Annual Academy Awards. He was there as a host, not a nominee, which meant he couldn’t win literally, but unrealistic expectations made winning in a figurative sense all but impossible. And so at an event where almost no one left victorious, the biggest loser of the night wasn’t even nominated.

Johnny Carson’s impending retirement in the Spring of '92 triggered almost instantaneous speculation over whether Jay Leno or Letterman would emerge as heir to the Tonight Show throne. To the bewilderment of Letterman, and against the wishes of Carson himself, the NBC brass went with Leno. The [...]

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Splitsider's Perfect World Emmy Nominations

by | July 14th, 2011

We saw the real Emmy nominations this morning, which included nods for many wonderful people but also notable absences from plenty of very deserving folks as well. So we decided to make up our own list of nominations. And hell, we added a few categories as well, since we gave ourselves all this power. Might as well! Consider these the real, official nominations unless we tell you otherwise, OK?

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Joel McHale Gets Melissa McCarthy Prepped to Read the Emmy Nominations by Punching Her in the Face

by | July 12th, 2011

Melissa McCarthy is announcing the Emmy nominations on Thursday morning. In order to be fully prepared to let the world know the nominees for Outstanding Host for a Reality or Reality-Competition Program, she enlisted the help of an abusive Joel McHale in this video by Lucia Aniello and Paul Downs. Not the smartest move, McHale. Now, if you're nominated, McCarthy will just swap in someone else's name instead.

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The Webbys Awarded "Actress of the Year" to a Man, But Who Cares About the Webbys?

by | May 3rd, 2012

The Webby Awards are pretty stupid. Not that giving out awards for achievement on the internet is an inherently bad idea, but when in order to be considered for a nomination you need to pay a "submission fee" costing hundreds of dollars, it's tough to consider them even remotely relevant. I mean, look at the nominees in categories about web videos; they all come from big companies, such as Funny or Die, CollegeHumor, Broadway Video and The Onion (or from corporations such as Microsoft and Chipotle). Those folks put out great stuff, sure, but did they really have no competition at all from amateur groups? But very few [...]

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Ricky Gervais Hosted the Golden Globes, and Some "Comedies" Won Them

by | January 16th, 2012

Last night was the Golden Globes, hosted by Ricky Gervais, the most self-satisfied insult comic on Earth. As promised, he made fun of celebrities, the awards themselves, and the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. Thanks to the overhyping of his "danger" by both NBC and Gervais himself, I don't think there was any way that he could live up to the expectations. That's his monologue up there, which contains the lion's share of his material for the night. Unlike the Oscars, the host really just does the monologue and comes back a couple times throughout the ceremony at the Globes.

As for the awards themselves, the show continued it's pattern [...]

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Billy Crystal Wants to Be Your Oscars Host; Brett Ratner Considers

by | August 16th, 2011

According to statements he made to a crowd last Friday, Billy Crystal wants to host the Oscars for the ninth time next year, a desire that may or may not be connected to seeing James Franco lumber on stage as a sad, beefy Marilyn Monroe. “They had called and said would you do this thing and honor Bob Hope and that was a kind of cool thing to do,” Crystal said about his cameo at this year's show. “I said okay. I did it, and people wanted to see me, they stood up, and I couldn’t talk for about a minute [while waiting for the ovation to subside]. And, um, I [...]

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Brian Wilson's Beard, Onesie Write Seth Meyers' ESPYs Monologue for Him

by | July 14th, 2011

Other than one super racist Yao Ming joke, Seth Meyer's ESPYs monologue was killer last night, though it's hard to get a read on the intensely quiet crown. To be fair, most of the jokes were hand-delivered to him via Giants reliever Brian Wilson, who showed up with his signature insane beard and wearing a skin-tight Spandex tuxedo. "What did you do with Batman?" Meyers demanded from the stage, before inquiring "I've been meaning to ask. Did you ever get that fiddler off the roof?" Other sports-related tragedies making Meyers job delightfully easy included the well-known charity The Los Angeles Dodgers of America, Michael Vick's feline fan-base and [...]

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