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Aug 29

Born to glee

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Here, in an abridged form, is the hysterical opening of tonight’s Emmycast. In the interest of comedy, I will forgive the desecration of the greatest rock and roll song of all time.

Look for Emmy host Jimmy Fallon, cast members from “Glee” (including Jane Lynch), Tina Fey, Jon Hamm, Betty White, Joel McHale, Tim Gunn, Jorge Garcia and Randy Jackson, among others.

Strangely, they omit the setup – Jimmy arrives for the Emmys and sees the “Glee” kids hanging around outside the theater. They can’t afford tickets for the show. But what if they could win the big cash prize from a conveniently-upcoming glee club competition?

Aug 23

Pep Boys, Andy? Really?

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One of the funniest parts of the Emmy Awards in the past has been the announcement of the writing nominees for the late night comedy shows. Each year, the shows come up with some amusing way of listing their writing staffs. One year recently, for example, the writers for “The Colbert Report” were introduced, standing side by side on a New York City sidewalk. At the end, an angry Stephen Colbert walked in and gestured at the writers, and the camera widened out to show that they were lined up in front of the Ed Sullivan Theater, home of a different New York-based talk show.
Unfortunately, those writing awards were moved from the main Emmy telecast to the untelevised Creative Arts Emmy awards held last weekend. But the staff of the former “Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien” brought the funny anyway, with a nod to the fact that soon after their Emmy-nominated episodes were broadcast, they were, um, unemployed:

Sep 20

Bwahahahaha…..

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It was great to see Doctor Horrible and Captain Hammer from “Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog” on the Emmy Awards tonight.

The rain disrupted my satellite signal right as the show was starting, so I missed the first half of Neil Patrick Harris’ opening musical number, but what I saw was pretty funny. All in all, I thought it was an entertaining show.

For several years now, and I’m not sure how it got started, the writing staffs for the comedy writing category that includes “The Late Show with David Letterman,” “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart,” and so on have had their names presented in humorous fashion. This year, for example, the writers for the final season of “Late Night with Conan O’Brien” were presented as Facebook friend requests, which an unseen user — eventually revealed to be Conan — was rejecting. Letterman actually had a clip of Billy Crystal singing the names of his writing staff.

The writing staff for “The Colbert Report” were simply standing out on the street, and the camera panned by them one by one. But then, at the end, Stephen Colbert ran out gesturing angrily at them, and the camera pulled back to reveal that they were all standing in front of the Ed Sullivan Theater, with Letterman’s iconic marquee in the background!