Bad Emmys!
Okay, you know how, earlier this week, I cheered on the Academy for saying that hosts of comedy/variety/music series would no longer compete with individual performers for specials? Yeah, I take it back, and then some. The reason I cheered before was that the Hollywood Reporter article I quoted made it look like the Academy was giving hosts of the series a different category in which to compete with one another, but today’s Los Angeles Times clarifies that the members of the Academy have actually eliminated the category for hosts.

From the Tom O’Neil’s “Gold Derby” in the Los Angeles Times (internal links omitted, my emphasis added):

Jon Stewart can’t win an Emmy for his showdown with Jim Cramer

On the same day that Jon Stewart smacked down “Mad Money” host Jim Cramer on “The Daily Show” in a moment of must-see TV, came word that the academy was eliminating the Emmy for individual performance in a variety series or special from the lineup this year. The powers that be are now going to include performers in the slate of nominated producers for those series and specials that make the cut. This move will cut down on the amount of hardware for which people like Jon Stewart, who is already a credited producer of “The Daily Show,” can contend. The show has won the Emmy for best variety series for the past six years running.

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NOT COOL, Academy! Here’s my vote that this injustice only lasts a year; Stephen, Jon and all the hosts deserve a shot an an Emmy for their performances as well as their production duties. For this, I am unilaterally declaring the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences my “#1 Threat Facing America”. Boo, Emmys!

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