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Who’s honoring Stephen Colbert now? The 2008 Emmy Awards!
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That’s right, kiddos, the nominations are in and the Emmy awards are laying down all kinds of love in their nominations. *Four* nominations this year – congratulations, Team Colbert!!
We’d also like to congratulate The Daily Show crew and their three nominatations – way to go, guys!
The 60th Primetime Emmy® Awards and Creative Arts Emmy® Awards Nominees are…
Outstanding Directing For A Variety, Music Or Comedy Program
- 80th Annual Academy Awards • ABC • Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Louis J. Horvitz, Director - Company (Great Performances) • PBS • An Ellen M. Krass Production with Thirteen/WNET New York in association with NHK/NHK Enterprises
Lonny Price, Director - Saturday Night Live • Host: Tina Fey • NBC • SNL Studios in association with NBC Studios and Broadway Video
Don Roy King, Director - The Colbert Report • #4051 • Comedy Central • Hello Doggie, Inc. with Busboy Productions and Spartina Productions
Jim Hoskinson, Director - The Daily Show With Jon Stewart • #13050 • Comedy Central • Hello Doggie, Inc.
Chuck O’Neil, Director
Outstanding Individual Performance In A Variety Or Music Program
- 80th Annual Academy Awards • ABC • Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Jon Stewart, Host - Late Show With David Letterman • CBS • Worldwide Pants Inc.
David Letterman, Host - Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project • HBO • Dark Horse Indie Films and Salient Media in association with HBO Documentary Films
Don Rickles, Performer - Saturday Night Live • NBC • SNL Studios in association with NBC Studios and Broadway Video
Tina Fey, Host/Performer - The Colbert Report • Comedy Central • Hello Doggie, Inc. with Busboy Productions and Spartina Productions
Stephen Colbert, Host
Outstanding Variety, Music Or Comedy Series
- Late Show With David Letterman • CBS • Worldwide Pants Inc.
Producers TBD - Real Time With Bill Maher • HBO • Kid Love Productions and brad Grey Television in association with HBO Entertainment
Producers TBD - Saturday Night Live • NBC • SNL Studios in association with NBC Studios and Broadway Video
Producers TBD - The Colbert Report • Comedy Central • Hello Doggie, Inc. with Busboy Productions and Spartina Productions
Producers TBD - The Daily Show With Jon Stewart • Comedy Central • Hello Doggie, Inc.
Producers TBD
Outstanding Writing For A Variety, Music Or Comedy Program
- Late Night With Conan O’Brien • NBC • Conaco, Broadway Video, in association with Universal Media Studio
Mike Sweeney, Head Writer
Chris Albers, Written By
Jose Arroyo, Written By
Dan Cronin, Written By
Kevin Dorff, Written By
Daniel J. Goor, Written By
Michael Gordon, Written By
Berkley Johnson, Written By
Brian Kiley, Written By
Michael Koman, Written By
Brian McCann, Written By
Guy Nicolucci, Written By
Conan O’Brien, Written By
Matt O’Brien, Written By
Brian Stack, Written By
Andrew Weinberg, Written By - Late Show With David Letterman • CBS • Worldwide Pants Inc.
Eric Stangel, Head Writer
Justin Stangel, Head Writer
Jim Mulholland, Written By
Michael Barrie, Written By
Steve Young, Written By
Tom Ruprecht, Written By
Lee Ellenberg, Written By
Matt Roberts, Written By
Jeremy Weiner, Written By
Joe Grossman, Written By
Bill Scheft, Written By
Bob Borden, Written By
Frank Sebastiano, Written By
David Letterman, Written By - Saturday Night Live • NBC • SNL Studios in association with NBC Studios and Broadway Video
Seth Meyers, Head Writer
Andrew Steele, Head Writer
Paula Pell, Head Writer
Doug Abeles, Written By
James Anderson, Written By
Alex Baze, Written By
James Downey, Written By
Charlie Grandy, Written By
Steve Higgins, Written By
Colin Jost, Written By
Erik Kenward, Written By
Rob Klein, Written By
Jon Lutz, Written By
Lorne Michaels, Written By
Simon Rich, Written By
Marika Sawyer, Written By
Akiva Schaffer, Written By
Robert Smigel, Written By
John Solomon, Written By
Emily Spivey, Written By
Kent Sublette, Written By
Bryan Tucker, Written By
Robert Carlock, Additional Sketch By
Lauren Pomerantz, Additional Sketch By - The Colbert Report • Comedy Central • Hello Doggie, Inc. with Busboy Productions and Spartina Productions
Tom Purcell, Head Writer
Stephen Colbert, Written By
Allison Silverman, Written By
Richard Dahm, Written By
Michael Brumm, Written By
Rob Dubbin, Written By
Eric Drysdale, Written By
Peter Gwinn, Written By
Jay Katsir, Written By
Laura Krafft, Written By
Frank Lesser, Written By
Glenn Eichler, Written By
Peter Grosz, Written By
Bryan Adams, Written By
Barry Julien, Written By - The Daily Show With Jon Stewart • Comedy Central • Hello Doggie, Inc.
Steve Bodow, Head Writer
Rory Albanese, Written By
Rachel Axler, Written By
Kevin Bleyer, Written By
Rich Blomquist, Written By
Tim Carvell, Written By
J.R. Havlan, Written By
Scott Jacobson, Written By
David Javerbaum, Written By
Rob Kutner, Written By
Josh Lieb, Written By
Sam Means, Written By
John Oliver, Written By
Jason Ross, Written By
Jon Stewart, Written By
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37 Comments
July 17th, 2008 at 10:43 am
Congratulations to everyone at TCR and TDS!!!
I noticed that Stephen is not competing against any music legends this year in the “Outstanding Individual Performance In A Variety Or Music Program” category. Hopefully this will be his year. Emmy for Stephen please!
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July 17th, 2008 at 11:29 am
but he is competing with the don rickles in the don rickles documentary…and he is a legend, a la tony bennett and manilow.
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July 17th, 2008 at 12:11 pm
My thoughts exactly… In fact, I’m calling it now. Don Rickles will win that…
I’m very happy to see Jon get a nod for hosting The Oscars. He did an excellent job, and I hope the Acadamy are paying attention when it comes to the question of who hosts next year… :)
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July 17th, 2008 at 2:32 pm
Stephen is a legend….just a young one! Ugh, why does there have to be some legendary figure in this category every year? I love Don Rickles, but unlike Don, Stephen can sing and dance as well!
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July 17th, 2008 at 11:12 am
Fantastic news! I’m sure Jon is making some serious jokes about his oscar host nomination. Sorry to see Craig Ferguson’s name not in the mix at all…
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July 17th, 2008 at 2:12 pm
I totally agree! Although I think if Stephen and Craig were both in the same category my head would explode.
And I’m not sure I agree re. Don Rickles being a shoe-in. He’s got the legendary status, but I think Manilow and Bennett come off as more contemporary, and that probably helped them a lot. I may be willfully deluding myself, but I seriously think Stephen’s got a chance. EMMY PLEASE!!!!!
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July 17th, 2008 at 2:42 pm
Me, too. :-) Some of Craig’s shows this year have been outstanding. Best of luck to Stephen, though. :-)
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July 17th, 2008 at 10:48 pm
You forgot the grabby hands!!!
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July 17th, 2008 at 11:14 am
I’m glad that Jon was nominated for his performance at the Oscars. He really should have been nominated for The Daily Show as well.
Still holding out for Stephen to win in that category this year though. He certainly deserves it.
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July 17th, 2008 at 11:23 am
Hi Meaculp-
Quick question-is your jon stewart gallery still up? I can’t get into it…and that makes me sad.
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July 17th, 2008 at 11:43 am
It’s still up. We have major problems with spam, so you have to be a member to view the gallery. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t. If you come on JSX or OSCLA and let me know that you’ve joined, via pm or something, I’ll validate your account.
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July 17th, 2008 at 12:26 pm
I registered as topaintsunlight….thanks. I’ve missed it.
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July 17th, 2008 at 2:19 pm
You’re in. Hope it works for you.
July 17th, 2008 at 11:30 am
i think stephen has a good shot at either nomination 3 and/or 4.
(crosses fingers)
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July 17th, 2008 at 11:32 am
Ooh… does this mean we’ll see some Don Rickles appearances on the show?
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July 17th, 2008 at 11:58 am
congrats to Stephen, his writers, and his director!
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July 17th, 2008 at 12:02 pm
As much as I may want see Stephen win I have a feeling Don Rickles will, which I don’t have a problem with. I like Rickles, and it would be funny to see Stephen pissed at him.
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July 17th, 2008 at 12:21 pm
Yyyyeeeeyyy! Congratulations everyone! This year is going to be *their* year, I can feel it. If it’s not, I may swear off TV all together.
Props to Jimmy too for best direction of the Philly show w/the EdWords. Aside from The Word: Sigh, that’s probably my favorite one.
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July 17th, 2008 at 12:26 pm
WooooHOOOOO!!!! WE DID IT! *balloon drop*
Well, technically *they* did. I’m so happy for both the Daily Show and the Report! This is going to be our year!
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July 17th, 2008 at 1:12 pm
Wonderful news about the nominations! I love that Jon got a nomination for hosting the Oscars too. Here’s to hoping for some TCR wins this year. <3
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July 17th, 2008 at 9:13 pm
It’s great that Jon was nominated for hosting the Oscars but I was a little disappointed that he didn’t also receive a nomination for TDS.
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July 17th, 2008 at 1:15 pm
I hope he will win at least the “…Individual Performance…” *fingers crossed*
Does anyone know who will host the Emmy this year? I haven’t heard anything.
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July 17th, 2008 at 3:44 pm
I’ve heard a rumor that there might not even be a host. I guess we’ll see.
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July 17th, 2008 at 2:16 pm
YAY for everyone associated with The Colbert Report and The Daily Show! I hope there’ll be some winning going on too!
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July 17th, 2008 at 3:16 pm
I’m surprised TCR and TDS don’t have their Emmy nomiations on their websites yet.
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July 17th, 2008 at 3:31 pm
I know they’ve put out an official press release – I’m sure they’ll have it up very soon.
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July 17th, 2008 at 4:15 pm
I hope they win for writing. That way, in addition to Colbert finally getting a well-deserved emmy for the Report, Eric and Laura would each have a nice going away present.
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July 17th, 2008 at 4:20 pm
Congrats to TCR & TDS!!!!! :-D :-D
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July 17th, 2008 at 4:20 pm
Will Cookie Monster come back for dessert?
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July 17th, 2008 at 9:31 pm
Haha, I had to post a comment because the reCAPTCHA says “call Maher.” That’s right, call him and tell him that his show’s not winning an Emmy this year, because it’s TCR’s year! Stick that in your pipe and smoke it, Maher!
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July 17th, 2008 at 9:55 pm
I just want to note that either way, Northwestern rules, because a) first off, there’s Stephen, ’nuff said and b) Seth Meyers, listed as head writer for SNL, is also an NU alum. Woo hoo!
Am out of here for a few weeks, so have fun everyone!
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July 17th, 2008 at 10:50 pm
Now that we are talking bout Stephen’s Emmy, may I please request u all to join the facebook grp- ‘1 million strong for Stephen’s potential emmy’!!!
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July 18th, 2008 at 2:42 am
I’m joining right now! Thanks!
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July 18th, 2008 at 2:55 am
Congrats to Stephen, Jimmy and all the writers for well-deserved Emmy nominations! Also congrats to Jon– I thought he did a great job with the Oscars this year (still rooting for Stephen, though)!
You know, if Rickles wins this year, that’s gonna be one ugly feud… XD
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July 18th, 2008 at 3:58 pm
Does anyone know which episode(s) Stephen’s “best performer” nom was based on? Or is he nominated for his perf. over the whole season? Thx
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July 20th, 2008 at 12:01 pm
According to the list, Stephen’s nominated specifically for episode #4051. A quick search in NFZ’s archives shows that 4051 was the episode in Philadelphia with Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and John Edwards. I personally thought Stephen should’ve been nominated for an episode during his presidential run, but whatever gets him the Emmy… :)
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September 21st, 2008 at 8:53 pm
Barry, Tony, and Don, you are so ten minutes ago.
Go, Stephen and your fabulous writing staff!
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