The Emmys: Who the Fuck Cares?

[smoogatz]

I mean, seriously. Outside of industry people, does anybody actually give a shit who wins the award for "least terrible actress" or "most engagingly cliché-ridden script"? Am I missing something here?

[Cush]

1. nope

For the most part I couldn't even tell you who is who, and who is on what show.........

[Yupster]

11. My wife loves all the awards shows

They remind me of masturbation.

First I'll give you an award and then you can give me an award. And we'll all be glamorous.

Similar thing happens in academia where a professor will award a neighboring professor with a distinguished award and then the awardee turns around and awards the original grantor his own distinguished award.

A circle jerk.

[Radio_Lady]

48. The time lag makes a problem for me on the West Coast.

Comcast delays the broadcast until 8 PM Pacific Time. That's 11 PM Eastern Time when the whole thing is almost OVER.

That's three hours late -- by then, I usually know the major winners and it's a done deal.

I didn't watch last night -- we're not big TV fans anyway. However, I wanted Helen Mirren to win for "Elizabeth I" -- haven't even had time to fully look at the winners.

No loss to me.

[Earth_First]

2. Read this instead:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x1994649

[spindrifter]

3. This is a non-event for me, too.

[Skittles]

4. that industry sure does reward itself a lot

buttloads of awards shows you know?

[graywarrior]

5. I'm switching over to Rescue Me

[tnlefty]

6. Apparently not I - if you hadn't posted this I wouldn't have even known

about the Emmy Awards. I guess I'm too busy thinking about Iraq and how to end it, and how to convince people around the globe that not all Americans are selfish, warmongering assholes.

[GirlinContempt]

32. I think you're too busy posting on DU, you mean.

[evlbstrd]

7. There were Emmy's awarded tonight?

I wouldn't have known or cared if I hadn't seen a post on DU that Jon Stewart got one.

[TheCowsCameHome]

8. Damn! I missed them. Didn't get the pleasure of turning them off.

Maybe next year.

[NYCGirl]

9. Is someone forcing you to watch? NT

[Jazz2006]

10. No, you're not missing anything.

Like some others have also said, had it not been mentioned here at DU, I would not have known they were on, at least until tomorrow morning when I read the newspaper, at least :)

[natrat]

12. yea babyyyyy

[johnnie]

13. Once again, it's entertainment

No one forces people to watch anything on TV. Turn the TV off and read a book. :shrug:

[Floogeldy]

14. Many, many fans care.

Spare me the elitist bullshit.

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[smoogatz]

25. If it's elitist to suggest that 99.999% of American television

is unadulterated drivel, then I'm guilty as charged. And you know, I'm okay with that.

[Floogeldy]

27. Well, now you have changed the subject.

Your original post said nothing of unadulterated drivel. It focused on who cares.

Make up your mind! ;)

[puffthemagicdragon]

15. I certainly dont care

with all the heartache going on in the world the last thing I watch is people parading down a red carpet in 10K dresses. I make an effort to not even change the channel to it so that they dont get my ratings.

[Fox Mulder]

16. No shit.

[progmom]

17. I enjoyed it...

:shrug:

[momophile]

18. I just don't understand why it's during the summer while

all the shows are in reruns. I mean, right NOW I couldn't care less. I haven't watched TV all summer. Now ask me in a month or two and I'll wonder why 'Veronica Mars' didn't win anything or maybe 'House.'

[Tyrone Slothrop]

44. I think they do it now as no one is busy

If they did it in when all the shows were current/still filming, half of the people probably wouldn't be able to attend due to everyone's busy schedules.

[tuvor]

19. Posts that ask "Who cares about _____?" always make me laugh.

:rofl:

[GalleryGod]

31. Me too. Especially dropping the Gratuitous F-Bomb

in the OP.

How so very,very, D.U.J.H.S.

[The_Casual_Observer]

20. They are all overpaid & contribute nothing tangible to society, and then

they give each other awards all year long and say "look at how important, rich, and beautiful I am".

[NYCGirl]

22. I think that people who make us laugh or cry or think contribute a great

deal to society.

[The_Casual_Observer]

23. Real stuff makes me laugh and cry. Seems that they are rewarded

well enough without having to give themselves little statues, they don't volunteer to do any of that from the goodness of their hearts.

[ForrestGump]

41. Most of us work for money or other of life's necessities

even if we love our work and even if the essence of our work is altruistic or beneficial to the community, the world, life, the universe, and everything. And if we get recognized for some of our work, even if imperfectly, good for us.

Yes, some actors, musicians, etc, get paid a lot. Some undoubtedly earn out of all proportion to their talent relative to their peers. But that's the way it is across the board, in the entire spectrum of gainful employment. Does a CEO really deserve a thousand times more than one of their employees? Do baseball players really earn the equivalent of some average dude's entire lifetime income within a few years of playing with their balls? They don't even run the same risk of injury as football players nor use anywhere near the energy of a basketball player but, hey, if they can make a brazillion dollars for playing their game and spitting all the time (disgusting pigs) then, so what...good for them.

If I keep it going consistently (this being very much not a given), I can make at least twice as much in a year through dressing up as Elvis Presley for a few hours nightly (typically four to five of actual earning work) than I would putting my PhD to use (and working day and night while hustling for grants and publishing or perishing) as an Assistant Professor at a major US research university. Do I feel bad about that? Well, I feel bad that education is so vastly undervalued in this country and that people who spend their whole lives in school (I escaped at age 36, for example) and try to help the world out have trouble making ends meet but hell, no, I don't feel bad that I've got six-figure potential from playing dress-up. Not only have I paid my f***ing dues, well and truly but -- even if I hadn't -- I wouldn't be out flagellating myself with birch twigs because I felt unworthy of an outsized income. I work hard for it, too. And even if my actual contact-time work is not full-time, I'm 'Elvis' all day to the people who see me, wherever I go. On top of that, almost all my time off -- when not tired or asleep -- is devoted to attending to my work wardrobe, look, sound, etc. I worked almost around the clock in service to Science and, really, in that respect this isn't much different.

Same with the original stars. Sometimes their complaints seem ridiculous, especially considering the money they make (and let's not forget that most actors and musicians are not making much money at all) and how pampered they can be, but it's not easy being an actor or a musician. These people face brutal hours, much of the time, and often poor working conditions and demands...and, of course, the whole point is that, as with pro sports, not everyone can do it. Being a 'celebrity,' on top of actually acting or playing music or singing, can be hell. As a celebrity impersonator, even, I can testify that even just pretending to be a celebrity who is no longer physically alive very much has its downside (and its upside, of course) and it's a downside most people need never worry about. Yeah, Tom Cruise may be a nutcase, but you try being in his shoes for a week and (uness you'd do what Marlon Brando and I would do, given that week, which is to head out to a deserted island and avoid it all) I bet you'd find being a famous person is hardly entirely a joyride. You can only get so much from spending money, or being seated at the best table, for so long, and then the core of what it is to be famous hits home and stays as long as you're in the limelight.

Famous entertainment types may make a lot of money, but they don't exactly get a free ride (the burgeoning number of Paris-Hilton types and 'reality'-show-alumni do, however, these days come close).

[hyphenate]

21. I guess I'm one

But then, TV has always been my life, either in reality or fantasy. I love the Emmys, even more than I love the Oscars. I recognize people I've worked with or know, I can cheer them on, and I can cry when someone I cared for is gone.

But I enjoy watching, regardless. It's all a put-on, but it's a fun put-on. And on some occasions, I fantasize about getting up there and accepting my own award someday.

[catbert836]

24. If you don't care

then why'd you go to the trouble of posting a thread to let the world know? No one's forcing you to watch.

[smoogatz]

26. I was curious--are there DUers who watch the high-fashion circle-jerk

that is the Emmy awards? Apparently there are. Apparently some of them are a bit defensive about it. Why do you suppose that is?

[catbert836]

28. Defensive? Not me.

I watched the ceremony because some of my favorite shows were nominated in certain categories. I'm not defensive at all about that.

And apparently some of the shun-all-popular-culture DUers are quite self-righteous.

[GalleryGod]

30. Well...

Wisconsin might hold the key.

Let's see...F-Bomb and "circle jerk"...very well done,indeed.

[soothsayer]

35. because some jerk will probably attack them for it

[GalleryGod]

29. I Do, JAFO.

[begin_within]

33. Stewart and Colbert came out and did a hilarious presentation 2 hours into

the show - including making fun of the fact that Colbert lost out to Barry Manilow

[LynneSin]

38. That was my other highlight of the evening

:D

[LSK]

34. K&R

Let me know when CSPAN wins something...

[ForrestGump]

36. Maybe if I actually watched TV in the past year, I'd care

Then again...no. I lost interest in all of the awards shows over the years, just because they (mostly) got too boring and too full of themselves. I saw the Oscars last year, though, and thought Chris Rock got in a couple of good ones...or maybe that was the year before. Whichever, the presenters can be good and the shows usually have good moments, but there's inevitably too much dreck.

I don't have contempt for the shows or whoever watches them (it's been me, before, and may be again), I just can't be bothered watching them myself -- I don't even see good TV shows, these days, and there're several shows I'd rather be watching than any awards show. I only watched that Chris Rock thing 'cos a relative wanted me to watch it with her (and I've before fast-forwarded through tapes of the Oscars just to see Billy Crystal's moments). And, yeah, there IS that whole thing about the major awards shows being shams in many ways, but -- although that hardly makes me enamored of them -- I can't say that disturbs me too deeply because anyone even on the fringe of the Hollywood entertainment machine knows that in many ways it's all as fake as much else thereabouts, anyway.

For some of my family members, any of the awards shows relevant to entertainment fields they work in (which means pretty much all of them in music, TV, and film) are like religious occasions and the day of their broadcast is like a holy day. Although these people pretty much live on the phone, day and night, heaven help the person who dares to call during the Grammys or whatever.

[LynneSin]

37. Jeremy Pivan finally won and that was such a deserving win

I don't think there is a better character ANYWHERE on Entourage than Jeremy Pivan's Ari Gold on "Entourage". I flipped over from the Emmy's to watch the season finale of "Entourage" and boy did they end it with a bang.

Jeremy ROCKS and he so deserved that Emmy!

[KFC]

47. I was glad to see that

He is definitely the best character, but I think that Kevin Dillon is a close second with all of the funny dumb-ass comments he makes.

[xchrom]

39. i LOVE it -- and in the real spirit of this --

i don't give a FUCK what anybody thinks.

it's fun to me -- and there are times when that is what matters.

[peekaloo]

40. I LOST TO BARRY MANILOW!

funniest moment as spoken by Stephen Colbert.

[tuvor]

42. "Kneel before your god, Babylon!"

[bigwillq]

43. I watched them.

I like award shows.

[kwassa]

45. I like Helen Mirren nearly going "ass over tit", as she put it

put a little irreverance into her Emmy award for Elizabeth 1.

[huskerlaw]

46. Apparently you care enough to post about it

:eyes: