Watching Television Awards Shows: Live or Highlights?

It’s Monday, which means it’s the start of a new blogging week.  So what I am I up to today.  I myself am doing a lot of homework, including writing this blog.  However, that doesn’t mean that I wasn’t momentarily distracted this morning (actually many moments) by things such as Facebook, Twitter, news on CNN.com and “news” on MSN Today.

Anyone watch the Emmy’s last night?  Ya, me neither.  I used to watch awards shows on TV and liked watching them.  I have come to realize that it is like watching sports.  The only reason that you are watching the game is so you can catch firsthand the highlights that are going to be aired on Sports Center tomorrow anyway.  Sometimes, awards shows have those moments that you wish you actually watched the show firsthand, simply because it is vastly different from the norm that awards shows have fallen into (as in Hugh Jackman hosting the Oscars and presenting a musical number instead of the regular comedy routine), or something controversial happens that is talked about for a while after the night is over *cough*Kanye West*cough*.  The only reason I would have watched the Emmy’s this year was to see if Jim Parsons (The Big Bang Theory) would win Best Lead Actor in a Comedy Series (seriously, they need to make their award titles shorter), and to see Neil Patrick Harris host the event (who was also up for Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series - How I Met Your Mother).  Unfortunately, neither of them won their respective categories.  Although Jim Parsons is one of my favourite comedy actors right now, he was up against some other great actors, like Steve Carell from The Office and Alec Baldwin from 30 Rock (who ended up winning).

Coincidentally, the music that I am listening to as I write this entry is the soundtrack to Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog.  (And the connection is Neil Patrick Harris, if you didn’t catch that.)  Dr. Horrible happened to make an appearance at the Emmy’s and if you missed it, here it is.  Trust me, its worth your time.

Quote of the day:

It takes hundreds of nuts to hold a car together, but it takes only one of them to scatter it all over the highway.

    -Evan Escar (1899-1995), Escar's Comic Dictionary-

Word of the day: equivocate:

\ih-KWIV-uh-kayt\ , intransitive verb:

1. To be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or to avoid committing oneself to anything definite.