The Emmys, woo-hoo: Part the Second

(By the way, I'm just winging it on spelling these people's names. Forgive me.)

Oh Lord, the cast of Everybody Loves Raymond. Why did people like that show? It was so not funny. And this bit is going on a really long time. Just get to the nominees. Now it's best variety show. It's The Daily Show. Big surprise. Jon Stewart speaks very graciously about David Letterman.

Back to Emmy Idol. It's the theme song from The Jeffersons, sung by an actor and Macie Gray. Not bad, but not Ja'net DuBois either.

Patricia Arquette comes out with a hairdo that suggests she lost a bet. She does best guest actor and guest actress in a drama, which went to Ray Liotta and Amanda Plummer. Poor Cloris Leachman got guest nomination for both comedy and drama. I didn't see her in the drama, but she was marvelous in Malcom in the Middle.

Ray Liotta introduces the nominations for best directing in a drama series. The director of the pilot for Lost won. Excellent. Great show, ought to win all sorts of things. Back to Ray Liotta, this time for writing for a drama series. I'd like to see House win this one. And it does! That's a marvelously written show, and the episode that won, "Three Stories," was exceptionally well-done.

Halle Berry does best actor in a miniseries. I haven't seen any of these. Geoffrey Rush wins for a performance as Peter Sellers that Tom Shales called "strangely lame."

These bits with Ellen DeGeneres are just not entertaining.

It's so odd that they do guest acting awards off-show, but they spend lots of time on directing and writing awards for miniseries that nobody saw. It appears that the Australians are taking over tonight.

This has all the drama of the Roberts confirmation hearings. And you know, I couldn't stay with those either. I'm going to read some P. G. Wodehouse and go to bed.