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<\/a>Two presenters who should have hosted instead: Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Kimmel. Photo by Karen Salkin, as is the one at the top of this page.<\/p><\/div>\n
And there were so many pre-shows that I could not watch them all; I just kept switching around for those three hours. And let me tell you\u2014it was a lot of work! A lot.<\/p>\n
But the very stupid \u201cI mean\u201d was out in full force. It seems that no one can begin a sentence without it these days! Idiots. Some of the worst Emmys offenders were\u00a0Anna Chlumsky<\/strong>, Betty<\/strong> Gilpin<\/strong>, Gwyneth Paltrow<\/strong>, and (I\u2019m sad to say) Milo Ventimiglia<\/strong>.<\/p>\n So these are just some snippets I made notes about. I don\u2019t even have much snark this time! It was all pretty bland, yet entertaining enough. I actually liked it this way.<\/p>\n So let\u2019s get right into it:<\/p>\n LOCAL CHANNEL 5 LA ARRIVALS<\/strong><\/p>\n The idiot hosts never told us who anyone is!!! How rude of them!!! We were supposed to guess who they were interviewing. With so many shows on TV these days, most people on them are just working actors, as opposed to celebrities. So if a viewer doesn\u2019t watch a particular show, they were lost. Mr. X and I certainly were.<\/p>\n The girl who plays the gay kid daughter on This Is Us<\/em> was refreshingly honest about how fans act now. She said they just ask for pix or autographs, without engaging. I loved that insight.<\/p>\n John Oliver and his pretty wife. Photo by Karen Salkin.<\/p><\/div>\n Lin-Manuel Miranda<\/strong> is always the most normal, human person in show business!!! I love him.<\/p>\n Could Padma Lakshmi<\/strong> be any more nasal?! To answer my own query\u2014I doubt it.<\/p>\n Terrence Howard<\/strong> is a lunatic. Period. The nutty hosts had no idea how to respond to him!<\/p>\n John Oliver<\/strong> has a gorgeous wife. And he\u2019s the funniest. So I\u2019m happy for him on every level.<\/p>\n I\u2019m so glad that I got to see John Leguizamo<\/strong>\u2019s wife because I had just seen his stage show where he mentions her a lot.<\/p>\n E! CHANNEL ARRIVALS<\/strong><\/p>\n That creepy female interviewer, the one with the giant forehead and anorexic arms, wore a dress that So You Think You Can Dance<\/em> host, Cat Deeley, had just worn on that show on Monday night!!! How could a stylist let that happen??? And even worse, she always tries to make it about herself, instead of the people she\u2019s interviewing.<\/p>\n A trio of weirdos: Kendell Jenner, Kim Kardashian, and Giant Forehead Woman! Photo by Karen Salkin.<\/p><\/div>\n I used to always like Sterling K. Brown<\/strong>\u2019s wife, but now she\u2019s just\u00a0desperate to be as famous as her husband. She was so upset that the giant forehead woman didn\u2019t mention that she has a show soon; Sterling and the woman had already wrapped-up the interview, but the wife just had to get in her plug after they were already leaving the stage. And she did it in such a sneaky way, making like she wasn\u2019t saying it for her own promotion. Pathetic.<\/p>\n On the TV screen at once were three weirdos, making money they don\u2019t deserve: forehead woman and two Kardashians. Ugh. What has entertainment come to?!<\/p>\n FOX LOCAL CHANNEL ARRIVALS<\/strong><\/p>\n This is another channel that didn\u2019t give us the names of the people they were interviewing! They sometimes said<\/em> it, albeit quickly, but never wrote it! What is wrong with TV producers today?!<\/p>\n And this channel interviewed barely any celebs at all!!!<\/p>\n Some actress named Greta Lee<\/strong>, (whoever she is) was soooo nasal! And she\u2019s another who cannot begin a sentence without \u201cI mean.\u201d<\/p>\n The lovely Laura Linney. You go, girl! Photo by Karen Salkin.<\/p><\/div>\n Laura Linney<\/strong> has definitely never done botox. So, good for her! I really applaud that!<\/p>\n I hate to say this one because I’ve met local newswoman Christine Devine a few times, (including a few days ago!,) and she appears to be a very nice person, but she asked one of the dumbest questions I’ve ever heard! \u00a0(I actually wasn’t even paying attention at the time, but Mr. X passed by at this point and laughed so hard at the idiotic question.) \u00a0She was interviewing yet another obscure working actress, and asked, “How many times have you been to the Emmys?,\u201d to which the actress answered, “This is my second time.” Without skipping a beat,\u00a0Christine then asked, “Does it ever get old?” \u00a0The woman had just said that she had been here only once before!!! \u00a0How could it “get old” to her?!<\/p>\n Interviewer Christina Chan has the most horrible squeaky voice! \u00a0How is she an on-air person?! On top of that, she interviewed whom she introduced as only “two people from The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel<\/em>,” and never ever said their names! Such rude treatment.<\/p>\n But this one takes the cake. They totally dissed Oscar and Emmy winner Regina King<\/strong>, whom Mark Steines was interviewing when it was time for the station to go off the air. So instead of letting Regina finish like a lady, they told her to “scoot over” to get their two channel hosts in the picture for them to mention their producers, etc! OMG. Regina was kind enough to stop and speak with them to begin with, (which she was the only really celebrity to do,) and this is the treatment she gets!<\/p>\n FOX NATIONAL ARRIVALS<\/strong><\/p>\n This one had the absolutely weirdest interviewers! They included\u00a0no-talents such as creepy Jenny McCarthy<\/strong> and very creepy Kelly Osbourne<\/strong> (whom I have not seen anywhere in years, thankfully,) and former football player<\/em>, Shannon Sharpe<\/strong>.\u00a0\u00a0Oysh.<\/p>\n So, I could not even watch it!<\/p>\n EMMYS TELECAST<\/strong><\/p>\n This was a pretty painless, eventful-less, easy enough Emmys. Sort-of good, sort-of bland, and pretty on-time. I never need more than that.<\/p>\n And even though I like a funny host, like Jimmy Kimmel,<\/strong> to come out occasionally with a witty comment about what had just occurred, having no host made the telecast shorter. But I felt like this one really needed a host.<\/p>\n Thomas Lennon. Photo by Karen Salkin.<\/p><\/div>\n So thank goodness for \u201cbehind-the-scenes\u201d commentator Thomas Lennon<\/strong>, who said he would be our\u00a0\u201csherpa through the lulls.\u201d That guy is a riot! He\u2019s been one of my absolutely favorite people in show business since I first saw him on creepy Sean Hayes\u2019 ill-fated 2013 sitcom, Sean Saves The World<\/em>, and the Emmys were so lucky to book him!\u00a0\u00a0He kept Mr. X and me in stitches the whole time. His reference to Felicity Huffman being in prison was priceless!!!<\/p>\n How could they have left Crazy Ex-Girlfriend<\/em> out of the tribute to shows that have recently gone off the air?! They should have even had its creator and star, Rachel Bloom, be a presenter. Not only did she win a Creative Arts Emmy last week, (for a song she wrote for the show,) but she announced that she\u2019s pregnant, which is always<\/em> big news in the show biz community!<\/p>\n Tony Shaloub<\/strong>\u2019s speech was trying way too hard!!!<\/p>\n Phoebe Waller-Bridge<\/strong>\u2019s first acceptance speech was a riot. As were all three<\/em> of them! Even Mr. X said that she\u2019s \u201cdelightful.\u201d<\/p>\n Ken Jeong<\/strong> is a riot. Period. Even usually-boisterous Nick Cannon<\/strong> just stood back and admired Ken doing his thing.<\/p>\n Michelle Williams and Busy Philipps holding hands, of course. Photo by Karen Salkin.<\/p><\/div>\n As I tweeted, we get it, Michelle Williams <\/strong>and Busy Philipp<\/strong>s\u2014you guys are besties. But do you really need to be holding hands during the show??? Who are you trying to be\u2014Oprah and Gayle? Eww.<\/p>\n And what is up with that crazy clapping of Natasha Lyonne<\/strong>??? She looked like one of Sherri Oteri\u2019s SNL<\/em> characters! I really thought she was some joke the show was pulling because she was sitting next to funnyman Fred Armisen<\/strong> (who turned-out to be her boyfriend,) and the camera kept showing her. I thought she was going to jump up and throw off what I assumed was a weird wig, and those most un-hip glasses ever, and do a bit! I had no idea that she\u2019s an actress.<\/p>\n The very weird clapping, and looks, of Natasha Lyonne, with her bae Fred Armisen next to her. Photo by Karen Salkin.<\/p><\/div>\n Why would they have someone named Lily Singh<\/strong> come on to utter only two sentences introducing two other people??? What\u00a0\u00a0a waste of time. (But I really do think they were just trying to get an Indian person on the telecast.)<\/p>\n The speech by the British director of Fleabag was lovely.<\/p>\n What a stunningly stupid and rude bit by Maya Rudolph<\/strong> and some creepy guy, on every level, including making fun of having a hard time seeing!!! So offensive. Also offensive was not saying the correct names of the nominees they were announcing! This is the Emmys<\/em>, for goodness sake, not a high school revue! This might be the only time these guys get nominated in their lives, and they didn\u2019t even get to hear their names!!! And people who are\u00a0really<\/em>\u00a0blind didn\u2019t get to know who anyone is!!! This was one of the rudest bits in the history of awards shows! Shame on those two, and their writers, too.<\/p>\n The actual funniest moment came when plastic-faced Kim Kardashian<\/strong> said, in all seriousness, \u201cOur family knows firsthand how truly compelling television comes from real people being themselves.\u201d Yeah, right. The audience actually laughed, probably thinking, as I did, that it was a comedy bit. But, sadly, it was not.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a>