Which is why it’s both a surprise and delight to say that the 68th annual Emmy Awards-which aired while you were watching the Vikings-Packers game last night-were… good!
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Jokes and politicking took place onstage and off Sunday.
The Democratic presidential contender responded quickly with a tweet: “Congratulations on your Emmy, Kate!” Julia Louis-Dreyfus won her sixth Emmy for Best Lead Actress in a Comedy Series, pushing her out in front of what was a three-way tie between her, Candice Bergen, and Mary Tyler Moore. “Our show started out as a political satire but it now feels like a sobering documentary”, she said while accepting the award.
She promised to rebuild the wall between comedy and politics and “make Mexico pay for it”.
For too long, both in the global publishing world as well as the television industry, genres such as science-fiction, fantasy and speculative fiction has been relegated to the fringes of the mainstream, not quite in the running for major awards, notwithstanding the phenomenon of Harry Potter. Jimmy Kimmel hosted and made a series of pretty bad jokes like suggesting Johnnie Cochran is in hell. “When you take women, people of color, transpeople, queer people, and you put them at the center of the story, the subjects instead of the objects, you change the world, we found out”.
The movie and miniseries awards went pretty much as expected – but then, shocks here would have been truly shocking.
“Master of None” star Aziz Ansari, who penned an essay in June for the New York Times entitled “Why Trump Makes Me Scared for My Family”, quipped on stage, “I’ve decided I’m going with Trump”.
Ryan Murphy has won for The People v. O.J. Simpson although he has seen Emmy success twice before when cast members Jessica Lange and Kathy Bates won for their performances in his horror series, American Horror Story. “Obama out”, he said.
Other Emmy winners at the party included “Transparent” creator Jill Soloway and Patton Oswalt, who won for writing for a variety special.
“He is a complete unsafe monster and any time I can call out Trump for being an inheritor to Hitler, I will”.
“You might want to ask George about that”, Benioff said, in reference to Game of Thrones’ source material from author George R.R. Martin, according to Entertainment Weekly.
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“If you run a positive campaign, the voters ultimately will make the right choice”. “That was a joke”, he quickly added. He even made Jeb Bush seem current. “2016” bumper sticker with the “16” crossed out and replaced by “20”. The victor for comedy should have been Anthony Anderson for “Black-ish”.
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“Thank you, Ellen DeGeneres; thank you, Hillary Clinton”, she said, naming two of the famous people she’s caricatured on the show.
