Whichever costume wins the next cycle of "Masked Singer".  Not the 
celebrity.  Just the costume and a PA with a vocorder.

On Monday, September 20, 2021 at 11:07:20 AM UTC-4 Mark Jeffries wrote:

> The Twitterverse seemed to be affronted over Conan's overeffusive welcome 
> to the TV Academy CEO, claiming that he was disgracing Debbie Allen and 
> diversity.  No, it just proved how humorless idiot millennials are.
>
> Personally, I would love to see Oliver crapping on everyone as Emmy host, 
> but that won't happen unless HBO televises it.  If it's Fox next year, 
> who's going to host?  Nick Cannon?  Dr. Ken?  Chef Ramsay?
>
> Mark Jeffries
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> On Mon, Sep 20, 2021 at 9:25 AM PGage <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> *Not really
>>
>> I know any post about this show risks a lot of #Emmysodull or 
>> #Emmysoirrelevant or (at least on a big part of my Twitter) #Emmysowhite, 
>> but it’s worth it.
>>
>> John Oliver beat Conan for best talk show, but shouted him out at the top 
>> of his acceptance speech, giving Conan a chance to do a small comedy bit of 
>> pretending he thought he was being told he won, then getting disappointed, 
>> but also unleashing Conan for the rest of the night. Later Oliver was chief 
>> among those rooting Conan on in his antics.
>>
>> There is already quite a debate about the ethnic dynamics underlying the 
>> winners. For my money the nominees were quite diverse, and the winners 
>> entirely predictable and at least defendable, with the possible exception 
>> of a somewhat overrated season of The Crown. Most of the outrage on my 
>> Twitter feed seems forced and performative, with the best case made for 
>> Michaela Coel losing to Kate Winslet for best actress in a mini-series, 
>> though frankly, in the strongest category of the night I was rooting for 
>> either Anya Taylor-Joy or Elizabeth Olsen. Coel did win I think for writing.
>>
>> However  there is no question that Cedrick the Entertainer (again, 
>> predictably, IMO) was  mostly not good, and from a comic standpoint Conan 
>> both stole and saved the show. 
>>
>> If Conan won the night, the big loser was Scott Frank, winner of best 
>> directing in a miniseries for Queens Gambit (well deserved IMO), but gave a 
>> pitch perfect performance as a privileged, pompous clueless and boring 
>> white man in his acceptance speech, reading several long pages, ignoring 
>> and then shouting down the playoff music, apparently concluding that since 
>> Debbie Allen did something similar minutes before fir a kind of lifetime 
>> achievement award, while giving a passionate and inspirational speech, he 
>> could do the same. He was wrong.
>>
>> I guess whatever network airs the show puts one of its people in as host 
>> (I did not know Cedrick had a show on CBS), but if they know what’s good 
>> for them they will figure out a way to get Conan to host next year.
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