Screencap courtesy of ColbertPics.com

The LA Times is reporting that the Emmy awards for 2009 are back to their original date of September 20th. But that’s not the interesting part. It’s the rampant rumormongoring at the end of the article that caught my eye:

No host of the Emmycast has yet been named, but there’s widespread speculation that the eye web will chose one of its network stars Neil Patrick Harris, who recently emceed the Tony Awards and TV Land Awards successfully, or Craig Ferguson. Stephen Colbert is also a possibility since CBS and Comedy Central are both owned by Viacom. In a recent Gold Derby poll, our readers preferred Colbert and CBS/ Comedy Central star Wanda Sykes.

Well yeah, we’re going to watch it anyway, but that would be a lovely surprise, I think. Also, I’ve been dying to use that screencap for two days now.

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