I’m actually cynical enough to hope this happened on purpose.
Dude wins an award for directing or writing or sweeping up on John Adams. He comes out and says something like, “I am so honored to have depicted an era where articulate men were able to discuss important ideas in complete thoughts and sentences.”
Applause.
“They spoke words …”
When of course, he is immediately cut of for a tease as to whether Dancing with the Stars or American Idol will win best reality series.
Unfortunately, it might not have even been hackwork, the Emmy’s so embraced cheese this year that for all I know it was a hip prank by a producer with a wicked sense of humor.
God, I want to say how incredibly lucky I am to work with such amazing talented people. I wouldn’t be here, if it we’re for my wonderful co-stars and writers. I’m so honored to have been nominated with the other amazing, incredible people in my category.
Oh, and Hayden Panettiere has really nice breasts. She’s of age right?
Kathy Griffin, of course, won her award on a different night, which is what happens when you are likely to say “Suck it Jesus!” in front of millions of people.
OK, just to be fair - this show has been pretty brilliant. They honored Tommy Smothers. Ricky Gervais accosted Steve Carell. And Josh Groban singing 30 TV theme songs including South Park, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Baywatch, and Cops was really amazing. First that guy participates in the Jimmy Kimmy “I’m fucking Ben Affleck” thing and now this. In the age of William Shatner “I always sarcastically meant to suck irony” - it’s really becoming impossible to hate anyone.
By the way Shatner totally stole that from Adam West, who deserves royalties.
That doesn’t mean I’m not willing to try though and that’s what really matters.
Back in 1988, I went to see the Last Temptation of Christ at the Biograph Theater in Chicago. There were lots of angry protesters and I was lucky enough to get a “Go directly to Hell card” from one of them. The movie was actually sold out and I still haven’t seen it, so the question remains - do I still get to use my free ticket to hell or do I have to actually watch the movie?
As for Bill Maher, he’s preaching to the converted, but it still should be pretty entertaining. When he’s shot by a zealot of some indeterminate faith, I’ll shed a tear in his honor.
Actually, my guess is that there won’t be many protesters because they will all be too busy having “We love Sarah Palin” parades.
If you do believe in God and have some spare time and feel like protesting - make sure you have a good gimmick - be original and don’t get into a fight with the other protesters that believe in a different deity than you do. Yes - stop arguing over whether its Moses, Jesus, Muhammad, or George Clooney, and come together and hate smug Hollywood elites like Bill Maher. I’m fine with you all believing all that nonsense, just stop killing each other.
Then again maybe you could just take the advice of Bill Hicks.
Angry Audience Members: “Hey buddy, we’re Christians, we don’t like what you said.”
Bill Hicks: “Then forgive me”.
