Seth Meyers kept Emmycast pleasant and brisk
Cheery, brisk and efficient - the Emmycast seemed to fall in step with the style of host Seth Meyers.
There were few if any surprises in Monday's awards. (In this respect, the show often seemed a rerun from the past several years.)
This, of course, wasn't Meyers' call. Nor did he deliver surprises of his own. That's not his way. He's a steady-freddy TV presence, reliably droll without rocking the rafters, and the Emmycast reflected that, too. As such, it only felt like the three hours it really was, instead of the several hours longer that awards shows sometimes do.
But a few hours later, the 66th Primetime Emmy Awards were destined to be forgotten.
As if Meyers were flashing back to his former 'Saturday Night Live' role as anchor of 'Weekend Update' ('TV Season Update'?), he quickly addressed the elephants in the room at the Nokia Theatre as he began his monologue:
- The fact that the Emmycast, traditionally on a Sunday night, was shunted off to a Monday by NBC for the first time since 1976, 'but people don't remember,' Meyers joked of the '76 awards show 'because it was held on a Monday.'
- The much-discussed category-jumping, which resulted in 'comedies that made you laugh and comedies that made you cry - because they were dramas submitted as comedies.'
- And, of course, the fact that broadcast TV keeps losing out to cable and online shows. An example of craziness, Meyers said, would be 'network TV holding an awards show and giving all the trophies to cable and Netflix.' Why would a network like NBC ever do that? he said, poking fun at his own 'Late Night' employer.
The closest thing to a musical number was a medley by 'Weird Al' Yankovic, who cavorted through a parody of TV-show themes including 'Modern Family,' ''Mad Men' and 'Game Of Thrones.' The performance fell short of the idea, but he kept it brief and it was fun seeing this comic comeback kid.
Funnier was the evening's lone pre-produced piece, a low-tech bit that teamed up Meyers with Billy Eichner, the manic Manhattan-streets interviewer from Fuse TV's 'Billy on the Street.'
Eichner asked one bemused passer-by 'who's your favorite talk show host: Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel or Seth Meyers?'
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