Opening Skit highlight: James Corden and Emmy host Jimmy
Kimmel reenacting Wham!’s “Wake Me Up Before You Go Go” video!
Best Supporting Actor, Comedy: Louie Anderson for FX’s
“Baskets.” Never heard of it? No surprise. I heard of it and chose not to watch
it. Weird-looking show starring Zach Galifinakis.
Best Supporting Actress, Comedy: Kate McKinnon for SNL.
She’s pretty funny and all, but I wanted someone from a regular scripted show
to win. Though none of the nominees in this category really thrilled me, so
whatevs.
Best Writing, Comedy: Master of None (Netflix), starring
Aziz Ansari. I haven’t watched it yet, but I intend to. Always loved Aziz on
“Parks & Recreation.” Aziz’s co-writer, a lesser known Asian-American man
recommended Asian parents give a few of their kids cameras instead of violins
so they can have more representation in Hollywood.
LOL. Hey, he can say that.
Best Directing, Comedy: Transparent (Amazon), starring
Jeffrey Tambor as a transgender (I think that’s the right term?). Still haven’t
watched it, but I’ve read lots of good things, and it’s become quite the awards
darling. But I really wanted “Veep” to win. I want “Veep” to win everything!!!
Best Actress, Comedy: Julia Louis-Dreyfus (HBO) for “Veep.” YESSSSSS!
She keeps winning this category, and she deserves every single award. She is
incredible on this equally incredible show. It’s so damn funny, and so is she. Awww—she
just thanked her dad, who apparently died Friday! Can’t believe she’s there.
Wow.
Tribute to Garry Shandling. Just letting you GS fans know in
case you want to look it up online.
Best Actor, Comedy: Jeffrey Tambor, “Transparent” (Amazon).
I need to watch this show.
Best Reality Competition: “The Voice.” A network show
finally won!
And I guess food at awards shows is officially a thing.
Ellen with her pizza, Chris Rock with his Girl Scout cookies and now Jimmy with
his homemade pb&j sandwiches. They’re seriously handing them out to
everyone. He mentioned that no one better have a peanut allergy though because
they could only afford one epi-pen. Ba dump bump.
Kerry Washington is soooo pregnant. She must be due very,
very soon.
Best Writing, Limited Series/Movie: “The People Vs. OJ”
(FX). This category was basically several eps of “OJ” competing against several
eps of “Fargo.”
I personally enjoyed the “OJ” series. I watched all 10 eps in like 2 days this
summer. I just wanted to keep going.
Best Supporting Actress, Limited Series: Regina—cool name—King “American Crime” (ABC).
A very uncomfortable but well-done show.
Best Direction, Limited Series: Lot
of “OJ” nominees here, but “The Night Manager” (AMC) takes it. It starred Hugh
Laurie (“House”) and Tom Hiddleston (Loki from “Avengers”) and was based on the
John Le Carre novel. It looked pretty moody and atmospheric, but I wasn’t
interested enough to watch it.
Best Supporting Actor, Limited Series: More OJ, Night
Manager, and Fargo,
and the award goes to Sterling K. Brown, who played Chris Darden in “OJ.” Lots of
love for him in the room. Even he said, “You guys may not have known my name,
but you checked the box anyway and thank you.”
Best Actress, Limited Series: Sarah Paulson as Marcia Clark
in “OJ.” She brought the real Marcia Clark with her to the ceremony too. No
surprise she thanked Ryan Murphy for changing her life (with “American Horror
Story” and now “OJ”), but I had to google “why did sarah paulson thank holland taylor” to find out that
they’re dating! Holland
is 73, and Sarah is 41. That is a monster age difference! I’m shocked by huge
age differences be they straight or gay. (By the way, did you hear Mel Gibson’s
26-year-old gf is preggers???)
Best Movie: “Sherlock: The Abominable Bride” (BBC). Now they
decide to separate movie from limited series???
Best Limited Series: “OJ” wins again. So glad I watched this
series. It really was gripping. How diversified is Ryan Murphy? “Glee,”
“American Horror Story,” and “OJ.” That’s three very different genres.
Matt Damon showed up to harass and humiliate Jimmy Kimmel on
stage after Jimmy’s Emmy loss. I do enjoy their ongoing (fake) feud. Fave part:
Matt says, “Hey, Jimmy, tell your mom I like them apples.” (I adore “Good Will
Hunting.”)
Writing, Drama: “Game of Thrones.” One of the winners
thanked actress Amanda Peet. Had to look into that. Turns out Amanda Peet is
married to the GoT co-creator and showrunner. Sadly for her, that’s a bigger
claim to fame than anything she’s done career-wise. Sorry, Amanda.
Directing, Drama: It’s beginning to look a lot like a “Game
of Thrones” kind of night, as it wins again.
I am about sick of them trying to play everyone off the
stage with that damn music. It’s so rude! I don’t care who’s up there, how
unknown they are, or how insignificant they may seem—it’s their f-in’ moment.
Let them have it! It feels like they start playing after like 30 seconds. Give
it a minute. At least. Literally, a minute.
Supporting Actress, Drama: Maggie Smith, “Downton Abbey.”
Pretty funny because Jimmy Kimmel joked that if someone didn’t show up to
accept their award, it would go to the next person on the list. He specifically
called out Maggie, whose won 3 times and has not shown up to accept any of her
Emmys. Jimmy took her award and announced that it will be in the lost and found
when she’s ready. LOL.
Supporting Actor, Drama: Ben Mendehlson, “Bloodline”
(Netflix). Love this show and love him in it. You should all check it out.
Oh no—the In Memoriam segment. Up and comer Tori Kelly is
singing an acoustic version of “Hallelujah,” an appropriately sad song. It’s
always surprising how many famous people I forgot died in the past year. The
penultimate image was probably the most recent death: Gene Wilder. The final
image was the one that matters most to me, and the one that made me cry:
Prince, in a beautiful shot of him taking a bow after his SuperBowl halftime
performance. Sigh. #stillsad
Actor, Drama: Rami Malek, “Mr. Robot” (FX). That’s pretty
shocking, very underdog. I really enjoyed the first season of this show, but
they lost me on season 2. Rami is the best part of the show though. I stayed
longer than I really wanted to just for him.
Actress, Drama: YEEEESSSSS! Tatiana Maslany, “Orphan Black”
(BBC America). I just screamed aloud in excitement. This woman is amazing! She
plays about 8 different characters, all clones, and you easily forget it’s one
actress playing all of the parts. This is so deserved.
Very trendy picks for Drama Actor and Actress. Good for you,
Emmys.
Comedy Series: YEEEESSSSS! “Veep.” I love this show! It’s so
damn funny. It’s so well-written, and the comic delivery is impeccable. It’s a
little crass and offensive, but that’s what makes it so funny. I wish they made
more than 10 eps a year because I can’t get enough of it. And I think it’s
still getting better.
For some reason, they trotted out Jimmy Smits and Dennis
Franz to present the final award of the night…
Drama Series: “Game of Thrones.” Still trendy, 6 years into
its run. Still event tv. I’m a fan but not a superfan.
So HBO ended up taking Best Comedy and Best Drama. They
don’t have as many great shows as they used to, but I guess ya only need a few
gems to make your mark. And they finished on time (thanks to the rude playing
off of winners).
