Billy Eichner, host of Fuse's comedy game show Billy on the Street, received a much-deserved Emmy nomination yesterday. Eichner was nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award for "Outstanding Game Show Host," despite the fact that his show airs at night (the Primetime Emmys don't have a category for game shows, so all game show people receive recognition by the Daytime Emmys). Billy on the Street, which is produced by Funny or Die, features Eichner ambushing New York pedestrians with silly trivia questions and challenges. In March, the series wrapped up its second season on cable network Fuse, featuring guest appearances from Will Ferrell, Maya Rudolph, Rashida Jones, and Zachary [...]
Last night on Late Night, Amy Poehler and Jimmy Kimmel both bonded over their mutual love of doing bits and how they were each excited to have lost at the Emmys because it allowed them to do the elaborate jokes they wanted to do. Poehler lost to Julia Louis-Dreyfus but got to pretend like they accidentally swapped speeches and Kimmel lost to The Daily Show but got to have his parents escorted out of the awards show in retaliation for believing in him too much. Let's hope these two never win any awards, for the sake of great bits.
I always told friends, "I don't want to become an actor because what happens when I win an Emmy!? I wouldn't know what to say." Now everything's changed, so Breaking Bad, I'm ready for my award winning guest star role whenever you need me. Hopefully, this video also prepared Park-Pose for her eventual acceptance speech when she wins an Emmy for her guest performance on Louie.
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 [...]
Deadline interviewed Louis C.K. as part of their coverage leading up to the Emmy nominations' announcement. They had him talk about the episodes he is submitting for consideration, including: "Pregnant", "Subway/Pamela", "Oh Louie/Tickets", and "Duckling". In doing so he addressed the whole Dane Cook thing for what should be the last time:
What I wrote for Dane and me on camera represents what each other feels about the situation. The only difference is that he’s not angry about it. Neither of us really care. Dane was generous in allowing me to take him to a place of anger and it was funny the way he did it. [...]
2013 looks like it could be the first year that streaming series from digital programmers like Netflix and Amazon go head-to-head with traditional TV shows at the Emmy Awards. The Emmys made a rule change to allow digital series to compete in the same drama and comedy categories that TV shows do back in 2008, but none have been nominated yet. The reason that may change this year is Netflix's high-profile launch of the Kevin Spacey/David Fincher drama House of Cards and the revived fourth season of Arrested Development.
Modern Family's Jesse Tyler Ferguson was just about the only person from that show who didn't win an Emmy this past weekend, and that's because his co-star and TV husband Eric Stonestreet beat him in the category of Best Supporting Actor. But Ferguson is not taking this defeat lightly. Last night, he took to the airwaves on Jimmy Kimmel Live to rally voters against Eric Stonestreet, who "steals gay American jobs" by being a straight guy playing a gay guy, unlike Jesse Tyler Ferguson, who's a real-deal gay dude. Let's just hope this ad is the first in a series of vicious, escalating attacks between Ferguson and Stonestreet over the [...]
The Creative Arts Emmys were this Saturday. Though mostly it was awards like "Best Light Mixing in a Reality Program," there were also some odds and ends of note. Childrens Hospital – yep, Childrens Hospital will now be known as "The Emmy Award-winning Childrens Hospital" – won for Outstanding Short-format Live-Action Entertainment Program. The Daily Show won for Outstanding Writing for a Variety Series because they always win. Jimmy Fallon won the award for Outstanding Guest Star in a Comedy Series for his turn hosting SNL. SNL also won for the direction and camerawork on the Mick Jagger episode, and hairstyling for the Zooey Deschanel episode. (I guess [...]
"So many Emmy roundtables so little time," says everyone this month. "But they talk about farting on set," says I! Also, this roundtable takes place around a square table, which makes it slightly more visually interesting. In the full, uncut version below they discuss hosting SNL, the non-controversy (or nontroversy) surrounding women being funny, and more.
According to the 2010 census, 583,776 people live in Portland. It is the 29th most populous city in the country. Yet, the mayor still finds time to help Portlandia solicit Emmy votes. You don't see the mayor of Philadelphia shilling for It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. Mayor Quimby hasn't once used his political capital to get The Simpsons more nominations. The same goes for whoever is the mayor of Pawnee, Indiana. Mayor Sam Adams's message is clear: Vote for Portlandia and they'll pickle that vote. How do you pickle a vote? I don't know; cider vinegar? It's Portland, they'll figure out something.
"I'm intimidated by Louis [C.K.]. He really has this [expletive] this scene [attitude]. I saw him get out of his seat 11 times at the Emmys… His approach to all of this is really interesting… He came over and gave me a hug and said 'What you're doing is really important.' I said, 'I dressed as you for Halloween.'"
Last night was the Emmy Awards, a three-hour-long ceremony the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences holds each year to honor Modern Family. The cast and crew of other TV comedies are invited to attend too, but they know going in that they will probably lose to Modern Family and that they were only nominated because there aren’t enough people working on Modern Family to fill every category.
Modern Family won a whopping four Emmys, significantly more than any other comedy at last night’s awards. Included in Modern Family’s bounty is the prize for Outstanding Comedy Series, which the sitcom has taken home for three years in a row [...]
What an ass Don Cheadle is. What is he even the Don of? Jerks? It's wonderful that Ben Schwartz was brave enough to tell the truth. This is the first of a Hollywood Reporter series in which they're having actors "stump" for their Emmy-nominated costars. Can't wait for the video in which the dog from Modern Family just takes a shit on a photo of the cast.
Simpsons showrunner Al Jean is leading a protest against Community being eligible for animation Emmy awards. Where animated shows like The Simpsons or Family Guy are only able to submit for comedy series categories or animation series categories, Community has been allowed for the second year in a row to submit for both. Al Jean's letter is co-signed by over 50 heavy hitters like: Seth MacFarlane, Matt Groening, James L. Brooks, and David X. Cohen. As is common around this time of year, a line is being drawn in the sand. Are you #TeamCommunity or #TeamSimpsonsFuturamaFamilyGuy? Read Jean's letter in its entirety and the Academy of Television Arts and [...]
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