2006 EMMY COVERAGE – Emmy Show Post-Mortem Part II: Even More Reviews Come Trickling In

Here’s yet another round of Colbert-related news on The Emmy Awards from last night. I swear I’ll start reporting non-Emmy stuff very soon. It’s just that there’s just so dang MUCH of this stuff out there! And all of it says pretty much the same thing – Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart were two of the funniest people at the 2006 Emmy Awards. And that Barry Manilow can suck it.

• Yes, we all lost … to Barry Manilow! – The Oregonian:
  “So you’re wondering. How out of step were the 58th annual Emmy Awards?

  And not just the part about being broadcast now, smack in the doggiest days of summer.

  Well, look at it this way. When the time came to pay tribute to Dick Clark, creator of “American Bandstand” and thus one of the key figures in the whole history of rock ‘n’ roll, the musical artist they brought out to pay tribute was . . . Barry Manilow.

  Barry Manilow?

  And then when standout TV hosts Stephen Colbert, David Letterman and Craig Ferguson were made to face off against Tony Awards host Hugh Jackman and the aforementioned Manilow’s “Music and Passion” PBS special in the variety-or-music performance category, the winner was . . . Manilow.

  I can only repeat: Barry Manilow? “

• Conan out-Billys Billy, and Jon Stewart is funnier than he was at the Oscars – Orlando Sentinal: “Jon Stewart, Paired with Stephen Colbert, was funnier in his presenter bit that he was on the whole telecast at the Oscars.”




• Those Wacky Critters – :
  “***THIS JUST IN****

  Before we start this week, I’d just like to officially place the Emmy voters On Notice, before Stephen Colbert has a chance to. For those of you who didn’t watch the show or read about it yet, Colbert lost the Best Performance in a Comedy, Variety or Musical Emmy to Barry Manilow.

  Barry. Manilow.

  know I’m going to hear from a truckload of you Manilow fans out there, and I truly do think he’s a heckuva guy with an amazing body of work, but there’s simply no one on the tube today who’s even in the same league as Colbert, with his bombastic, over-the-top parody of pretty much every talking head on cable news.

  I blame Bill O’Reilly.”




• So the best didn’t win Emmys — hey, it could have been worse – SFGate.com: “One of the highlights of the Emmys every year is how the writing staffs of late-night shows depict themselves. It’s always some kind of ironic, taped bit of ridiculousness and always a welcome relief. This year a good inside joke was all the bears for “The Colbert Report.” Gotta watch it to get it.”




• ’24′-karat Emmys – Baltimore Sun:
  “While O’Brien turned in a solid performance, the funniest moments belonged to Stewart and Stephen Colbert, of Comedy Central’s Colbert Report, who presented the award for best reality series.

  “Reality TV celebrates the human condition,” Stewart said, mock-choking on the words.

  “It warps the minds of children and weakens the resolve of our allies,” Colbert countered, bringing forth a cheer from the crowd.”




• Nothing special, but it was fun – Fort Worth Star-Telegram: “O’Brien kept things moving briskly and, despite the presence of Jon Stewart as a presenter and winner, there was little mention of politics. Sure, O’Brien took a slight dig at Fox News and joked that “Mel Gibson has a new show on Al Jazeera” while presenters Edie Falco and James Gandolfini offered best wishes to U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, but it was all very polite. Unless you count Stewart’s fellow Comedy Central “newsman” Stephen Colbert who, in his best Bill O’Reilly anti-Hollywood bluster, hectored the crowd that they worship Emmy and “kneel before your god, Babylon!”"




• Show had a host of pleasant surprises – New York Daily News: “Funniest presenters, no surprise: Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert.”




• Emmy spreads wealth – azcentral.com: “But back to Sunday night. The guy who, as Stephen Colbert pointed out, sang Copacabana and the best of jiggle TV are highlights? Now that’s class. But the show wasn’t completely devoid of good taste – when Simon Cowell came out to begin the tribute to Clark, for instance, he was booed.”