What’s better than an electoral landslide? An Emmy! Last year’s Jon Stewart/Stephen Colbert “Rally To Restore Sanity” in DC may have been a total bust as a game-changing political event to counter the Tea Party’s momentum, but who cares? It’s been nominated for Daytime Emmys in the (hitherto unknown to me) fields of “Outstanding Special Class Special” and “Outstanding Achievement in Live & Direct to Tape Sound Mixing”.
Don’t worry if the Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Special Class Special sounds vaguely like the telly equivalent of the gongs crumbling dictatorships hand out ever more frantically in their last desperate weeks. I gather it’s a highly sought award for Specials produced by Outstanding members of the Special Class or something. (They’re up against the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade. The Libyan War was hoping for a nomination, but it doesn’t qualify, as it’s not on TV.)
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Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseIt's almost as prestigious as the Montgomery Burns award for outstanding achievement in the field of excellence.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseBut not quite.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseThis is ridiculous! The Stewart/Colbert thing wasn't a quarter as funny as Glenn Beck's "Plastic Flag Schizophrenia Fun Time Spectacular sponsored by Rascal Mobility Scooter and Goldline" and where's HIS Emmy? The LSM strikes again!
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseLooks good to me. I'd assign most liberals to the Special Class.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseTo be nominated, they first had to send in their entry, which means THEY selected the categories they wanted to compete in.
Bwahahahahaha!
Besides that, wasn't it C-SPAN that provided all the video production gear and the crew? All Stewart, et all, had to do was go on stage and be "special". C-SPAN did the rest.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseSaid in my best Carol Channing voice:
Now isn't that special.
Reply to this commentLinkReport Abuse...and should they win, I'm sure they'll arrive on the short bus to pick up their award.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseBy the headline, I thought this was going to be a post remeniscing about Obama's Nobel prize.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseThis is the kind of lunacy we've come to expect from an industry that heaps high praise and awards upon consumer scam artists like Al Gore and Michael Moore and a score of anti-American entertainers. The entertainment industry in America was once a lucrative enterprise we could be proud of. Today, it's an embarrassment that loses money by the billions.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseAre you sure it wasn't the Special Outstanding Special Class Special? I hear that one is really coveted.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseGiven that I know a few "special-ed" teachers, I think this award sounds like exactly what Stewart/Colbert have earned.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseI was at the rally. It was, objectively, a major and unique achievement for a TV show. It's getting an award (at the Daytime Emmys, for heaven's sake -- why do you CARE enough to be mean-spirited about it?) for what was, actually, a lot of work by the TV staff.
Slow news day, Mark? No Islamists around to complain about today, so you have to pick on a production staff for getting an award because you don't like their politics?
Reply to this commentLinkReport Abuse"Gong" is a British term that Americans don't understand, kind of like "crisps" or "boot". (I learned about it trying to find out what that stupid medal on Prince Andrew's otherwise pristine uniform was.) I can't think of an equivalent.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseI think the funniest thing I have ever seen was a guy at the "Rally for Sanity" with a sign saying "Obama - Keynesian?" soliciting comments from the crowd. They wern't the brightest of bunnies (as we say in the UK). One woman practically shouted at him ....
"Lay off the guy, he wasn't born in Keynesia - he is a US citizen!"
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseIt reminds me - often things do! - of a Simpsons episode when Mr Burns,in order to shut Homer up,gives him an award for " Outstanding excellence in the field of excellence". I didn't think that could be bettered but it seems it has!
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseKudos to Stewart and Colbert! I hear this award is just one notch below The Doubleplusgood Special Award.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseRight up there with Darren McGavin's leg lamp award.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseColbert did a funny bit on this on Wed night "Award to the Wise" - how he's up against Macy's parade and Equitrekking on PBS. External Link
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