this is a thread for the 2011 EMMY AWARDS oh yeah

the big ones (full list):

Comedy Series
The Big Bang Theory
Glee
Modern Family
The Office
Parks and Recreation
30 Rock

Drama Series
Boardwalk Empire
Dexter
Friday Night Lights
Game of Thrones
The Good Wife
Mad Men

Lead Actress in a Comedy
Laura Linney, The Big C
Edie Falco, Nurse Jackie
Amy Poehler, Parks and Recreation
Melissa McCarthy, Mike & Molly
Martha Plimpton, Raising Hope
Tina Fey, 30 Rock

Lead Actor in a Comedy
Matt LeBlanc, Episodes
Jim Parsons, The Big Bang Theory
Steve Carell, The Office
Johnny Galecki, The Big Bang Theory
Louis C.K., Louie
Alec Baldwin, 30 Rock

Lead Actor in a Drama
Steve Buscemi, Boardwalk Empire
Michael C. Hall, Dexter
Kyle Chandler, Friday Night Lights
Jon Hamm, Mad Men
Hugh Laurie, House
Timothy Olyphant, Justified

Lead Actress in a Drama
Elisabeth Moss, Mad Men
Connie Britton, Friday Night Lights
Mariska Hargitay, Law & Order: SVU
Mireille Enos, The Killing
Julianna Margulies, The Good Wife
Kathy Bates, Harry’s Law

Supporting Actor in a Comedy
Jon Cryer, Two and a Half Men
Chris Colfer, Glee
Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Modern Family
Ed O’Neill, Modern Family
Eric Stonestreet, Modern Family
Ty Burrell, Modern Family

Supporting Actor in a Drama
John Slattery, Mad Men
Andre Braugher, Men of a Certain Age
Walton Goggins, Justified
Peter Dinklage, Game of Thrones
Josh Charles, The Good Wife
Alan Cumming, The Good Wife

Supporting Actress in a Comedy
Jane Lynch, Glee
Betty White, Hot in Cleveland
Julie Bowen, Modern Family
Kristen Wiig, Saturday Night Live
Jane Krakowski, 30 Rock
Sofia Vergara, Modern Family

Supporting Actress in a Drama
Kelly Macdonald, Boardwalk Empire
Christina Hendricks, Mad Men
Michelle Forbes, The Killing
Archie Panjabi, The Good Wife
Margo Martindale, Justified

Mini-series or Made-for-Television Movie
Cinema Verite
Downton Abbey
The Kennedys
Mildred Pierce
The Pillars Of The Earth
Too Big To Fail

Variety, Music or Comedy Series
The Colbert Report
Conan
The Daily Show With Jon Stewart
Late Night With Jimmy Fallon
Real Time With Bill Maher
Saturday Night Live

Lead Actor in a Mini-Series or movie
Edgar Ramirez, Carlos
Greg Kinnear, The Kennedys
Barry Pepper, The Kennedys
Idris Elba, Luther
Laurence Fishburne, Thurgood
William Hurt, Too Big To Fail

Lead Actress in a Mini-Series or movie
Diane Lane, Cinema Verite
Elizabeth McGovern, Downton Abbey
Kate Winslet, Mildred Pierce
Taraji P. Henson, Taken From Me: The Tiffany Rubin Story
Jean Marsh, Upstairs Downstairs

Reality Program
Antiques Roadshow
Deadliest Catch
Hoarders
Kathy Griffin: My Life On The D-List
MythBusters
Undercover Boss

Reality Competition
The Amazing Race
American Idol
Dancing With The Stars
Project Runway
So You Think You Can Dance
Top Chef

so which of these should we poll first?

so wait ramirez gets nominated but carlos itself doesn't make it into the mini-series category? rmde.

If they hadn't let the judges talk so much (ESP Xtina) The Voice would have gotten a nomination

Alan Cummings is wearing pajama pants

this is the modern family appreciation show

i'm already sick of hearing that stupid 'big band' Modern Family theme music tonight

Sheen showing up all smiley and clean cut is so creepy

BEEP BOP DEE DOP DOOP DOP

i predict 30 rock and mad men win everything

modern family already beat 30 rock in, like, every single category fyi

akon and michael bolton going "i just had sex" "on the isle of tortuga!" is pretty great

Jesse Pinkman delivering meth to Creed was pretty good

And Amy Poehler speaking Dothraki, obv

haha that was great

John slattery for best supporting actor? i dunno he's one of the bad things about mad men imo.

FNL winning writing and Margo Martindale winning Best Supporting Actress has made it worthwhile

it's that kind of "nominate anyone involved with it" show at this point isn't it

definitely very happy for Martindale, she killed it on Justified and i've been a fan of hers since The Riches

YAY!

not a huge fan of GOT but Dinklage deserves this

I heard her speech got mighty spoilery, and luckily I was able to warn a friend of mine to hit mute before that happened. Yikes!

it's so goofy that Cloris Leachman was nominated for 'guest performance in a comedy series' -- she was in 22 out of 24 episodes of Raising Hope

This was on mute at the gay sports bar.

No idea what he jokes were during the beauty pageant spoof, but what show? Molly and Who?

Also lovely to see MLK Jr's "been to the mountaintop" speech put on the same level w/ Rocky running up the steps by Samsung.

lmao @ Jane Lynch: "a lot of people ask me why I'm a lesbian...ladies and gentlemen, the cast of Entourage"

Mike & Molly was by far the most watched show in that category and the actress from it that won is about to host SNL and was in one of the summer's biggest movies fwiw

all means nothin to me

who the hell hasn't hosted SNL?

obv none of this means anything to you and nothing was going to be a satisfactory answer, and anyway i don't know why you'd EXPECT to have heard of everybody at the Emmys, but hey you asked

you & TV... perfect together

barry pepper?!

some sc13no vote stuffing bs

Olivier Assayas and Todd Haynes beaten by some British Guy.

you & 'discerning' arthouse movie horseshit... perfect together

who the hell are these guys singing

It's fitting that every TV series ever has used a version of this song for a mawkish montage that they're using it for this segment.

Still, RIP Andy Whitfield.

.50pm: HF: I liked Louis CK before but now I love him for refusing to applaud the man who beat him in his category, best lead actor in a comedy series, and for looking genuinely disappointed at the (totally wrong) outcome.

seriously, big bang theory guy?

what's that?

guardian live blog

it was cute that for his clip in the nominee reel they used the scene of Louie trying to play a cop and being unable to conceal his contempt for the whole idea of acting, but seriously it's not like the award the guy deserves to win is for ACTING anyway

When Louis lost I just saw him turn to Pamela Adlon who was making a joke or something. Didn't notice was pissed off.

don't know whether it's sweet or offputting for someone who's been nominated for as many Oscars as Kate Winslet to be that excited about winning an Emmy

goddamn she looks great, though

kind of pissed at carlos getting blanked but that's about the only thing out of all of this that i saw, heh

carlos ruled tho fyi

shock surprise win for Mad Men

it was cute that for his clip in the nominee reel they used the scene of Louie trying to play a cop and being unable to conceal his contempt for the whole idea of acting

i am not watching this so i am super stoked to hear they used that clip

not watching this but i notice that the daily show has won 9 years in a row now

q: did breaking bad get nominated for nothing because of the timing of their seasons / the eligibility period?

and how exactly did anything from 'harry's law' get nominated for anything?

a: that is correct

Should've figured that the "They laugh at yewww" hillbilly mom from the Eastwood-boxing-deathfest would become a TV star.

Because her acting was too layered to be fully comprehended within the limitations of a feature film?

within the limitations of a camouflaged 1930s boxing B-picture, perhaps.

I did think her (Alexander Payne) segment in Paris j'etaime was one of that film's few assets.

btw jon i know you're WRITTEN ME OFF or whatever but your post about the modern family joke was a tad sean penn

not sure what "tad sean penn" means, but I just wish the joke would have been funny

he's saying you took the circumstances around the joke a little too seriously re: "they deflated the show's contribution to tolerance"

Geez guys I wasn't like offended that he didn't take tolerance seriously or whatever, just thought it kinda undercut a decent point with a completely lame, tired punchline.

idg y more ppl dont realize modern family is kinda garbage

but i guess so is mad men so w/e emmys wcud

you had me on the first part, lost me on the second

Modern Family will never be comlpete garbage as long as Ty Burrell is in the cast. Straight up funniest physical comedian on TV right now.

have you guys seen "The Musical Man" episode? that's probably the funniest thing I've seen on television this year

i watch MF and occasionally enjoy it but if it disappeared tomorrow i'd never think of it again tbh

yeah, there are good performances and some good episodes but it relies too often on cliches and laziness. to their credit, though, they cut back on the forced sentimentality that closed every episode of the first season.

is ty burrell the goofy dad character? they go to that well waaaaay too often maybe bcuz its one of the only characters they can successfully write for idk

yeah, and he's the best thing about the show. well, him and his idiot son Luke.

btw jon i know you're WRITTEN ME OFF or whatever but your post about the modern family joke was a tad sean penn

tbh my problem with you is more that you have to be in like full-on snark mode 100% of the time and clown anyone that ever makes any kind of remotely earnest comment

yeah i'm the worst, deal with it i guess

sorry i implied that you sometimes take things a little too seriously and lack a sense of humor, don't know where i ever got that idea but i was clearly in the wrong.

I don't think I ever said you were wrong, just figuring out why your posting style rubs me the wrong way.

I do like how you play the "you have no sense of humor" card when I don't lol at you clowning me. Iirc, you play the same card at deej all the time.

let's skip to the hugging it out, i don't want to be mean to you anymore

(((jon)))

Its pretty clear that you don't really like me, so its cool, we can skip the pretend hugging it out bit if you want.

i like you! you're v serious and tbh come off a little paranoid about people having problems with you but aside from that i really see nothing to dislike you over, you post quality stuff all the time

You mean I have to start watching Modern Family now?

yes, yes you do

Ha, just kidding, they also gave top acting awards to two CBS sitcoms, and there is possibly nothing less funny than CBS sitcoms.

Its required by law if a show wins more than three Emmys in a single year, iirc. Enjoy your Downton Abbey too, tbh.

I'm pretty sure Melissa McCarthy won because she was so great in Bridesmaids and not because of her sitcom.

^^^ OTM

Connie Britton robbed again.

barry fucking pepper

possibly in addition to that, her sitcom has done pretty well and people watched really closely to figure out why. also her submission tape had her high on cough syrup, which is emmy catnip. (amy poehler's submission was similar, actually).

xposts

How did Idris Elba lose to Barry Pepper, anyway? Come on. xp

lil wayne was robbed at the emmys then (xpost)

The one time I watched "Mike & Molly" she was having a torturous late night fight with a slice of cake. I took this as a sign that I should not watch the show.

it's pretty hilarious that that godforsaken Kennedys mini-series won any awards at all

like literally within 5 minutes there were something approaching 384 fat jokes

or edgar ramirez!

xps re: barry peppered

Idris Elba is still being punished for that terrible movie he did with Beyonce and Ali Larter

IE has taken a lot of roles that are beneath him but ehh they can't all be Stringer

I still need to see that.

btw i was confused about Luther being nominated for mini-series -- obv a 6-episode British series is not as serialized as an American show, but it wasn't a one-off, there was a 2nd series/season. do the Emmys always categorize those kinds of shows that way?

Obsessed is not as fun as it could have been.

like literally within 5 minutes there were something approaching 384 fat jokes

Yeah, the whole premise seems to be "lol fat people"

I'm pretty sure Melissa McCarthy won because she was so great in Bridesmaids and not because of her sitcom.

LOL that this is widely presumed to be an Emmy win to preliminarily make-up for an impending Oscar snub.

Bring back Yes, Dear!

The new Sherlock was also nominated in the miniseries category, I think they just have no idea how to handle British shows.

fwiw Mike & Molly has a lot of emo/self-help stuff about the characters struggling with their weight and meeting in an Overeaters Anonymous group. obv that's not to say there aren't fat jokes or that it's a super great show but that is the framework in which those jokes exist (mostly w/ the main characters being self-deprecating or other jerky characters being mean about their weight).

Would like to see Leonard Nimoy do the Glengarry monologue.

there is possibly nothing less funny than CBS sitcoms.

CBS News?

nah, not even a contest

Anything less than 6 episodes is considered a mini-series, apparently (Downton Abbey was transmitted in 4 70-odd minute chunks). Luther is the outlier, though, it makes no sense. It's also strange because Downton Abbey could conceivably win next year as well.

"two-time nominee for best miniseries" would be pretty hilarious

lol there's a Luther banner ad on imdb that says "the miniseries returns"