I think the problem with all of the skits was the problem with the broadcast
in general* (even if the ratings were up this year): that the audience has
become so fragmented that there's just too many things that too many people
aren't familiar with.
I mean, I guess to anyone who's watched all of Cedric's shows, that thing with
his TV wives amusing (I can't imagine anyone did, but go with me ...), but to
anyone like me who's managed to avoid his TV work, it was three actresses
chewing scenery badly. Same with the Ken Jeong thing. If you haven't seen him,
you don't know what's going on. (And I kind of like him, but his act is getting
so thin, one can read a newspaper through it.)
The thing with Pence and the fly was about as topical as Mort Sahl's material
about the Eisenhower administration.
Even the "I never won an Emmy sketch" (which went on too long) suffered from
"Who are these people?" syndrome. (Poor Fred Savage.)
I'm not a fan of award shows, but this one did nothing to help the cause. It
was badly written, poorly paced, and utterly unnecessary.
--Dave Sikula
(*Other than the tacit acknowledgment that the medium has become so infested
with British actors playing Americans that they had to set up a
middle-of-the-night soiree in London.)
On Tuesday, September 21, 2021, 02:15:11 PM PDT, PGage <[email protected]>
wrote:
He really was quite bad. I have seen his stand up, which is better than his
horrid tv shows, but still not really great IMO. I am not sure what CBS was
expecting because as bad as he was, it was just about what I would have
predicted.
On Tue, 21 Sep 2021 at 3:11 AM 'Dave Sikula' via TVorNotTV
<[email protected]> wrote:
They'll probably drag Samberg, Fallon, or Meyers into the swamp, especially if
Lorne is producing.
Cedric was embarrassingly bad Sunday, so anyone -- even Wiig -- would be an
improvement.
-- Dave Sikula
On Monday, September 20, 2021 at 8:54:58 AM UTC-7 Brad Beam wrote:
If the current rotation holds, NBC airs the ceremony next year.
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> On Sep 20, 2021, at 11:07, Mark Jeffries <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> 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?
>
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