Hollywood talks politics at Emmy Awards

Yahoo News ^ | 21 Sep 08 | GREG RISLING

[SkyPilot]

LOS ANGELES - Hollywood once again pulled out its political punching bag on a national stage Sunday, weeks before a new president is elected.

Granted, the platform was served by two HBO shows that ended up winning Emmys — "John Adams," which chronicled the life of the second president, and "Recount," which dealt with the contested 2000 presidential election.

Comedians Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert, who host political satire shows on Comedy Central, told viewers they would avoid talking about the upcoming election.

That promise was short-lived.

"I think right now America needs a prune," said Colbert, who pulled out a bag of the dried fruit and was presumably referring to GOP presidential candidate John McCain. "It may not may be a young, sexy plum. But this dried-up fruit has the experience we need."

[seoul62]

I was pleased that Mad Men won./Just Asking - seoul62......

[RepoGirl]

There was a 30 year anniv. marathon of WKRP in Cincinnati on WGN.

As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly.

[Liberty Valance]

How’bout them Cowboys?!? It was a great game.
As for TeeVee ... ‘Deadliest Catch’ should have swept the emmys. ;o)

[longfellow]

Emmy: em=M my(me`)=ME. It’s all about ME. Self centered a-hole award.

[toomanygrasshoppers]

I resisted watching 30 Rock but finally gave it a try. It’s hilarious. It actually makes fun of Liberals and Conservatives. Alec Baldwin is very good as the Conservative boss. I’m trying not to see everything in my life through a political lens. It’s hard to do because I’m such a political junkie. Also, “John Adams” was one of the best series I’ve ever seen. It made me so proud to be an American.

[patj]

That was one of the best. I remember when it first played, I fell out of my chair laughing so hard.

[perez24]

Thank God for TIVO and WGN.

[Hazzardgate]

There was lots of cheap shots. Laura Linney claimed that John Adams and his folk were “Community organizers”. Then the producer of JOHN ADAMS went on a rant about having leaders who speak in complete sentences. Thank goodness they cut him off.

[greyfox]

They try to be subtle with their political comments, sort of inside joke stuff. And therein lies the problem with that crowd, they are dummer than they think we are. If the anointed one should become President the “white house” will be in Hollywood. And all the world will become a fairyland.
And you can take that any way you like.

[Bender2]

Re: ...was all psyched to watch that "Cavemen" show a while back. It was canceled after about 6 episodes, I don't know, I thought it was funny as hell...

Gadzooks! I hear Geico... has some good insurance for that!

BTW #1 am I the only one who found it utterly tasteless (Yet normal for the Hollywood Fruits'n Nuts) that the Looney Left Coast crowd laughed when Chuck Heston appeared in the Memorial section?

BTW #2 am I the only one who is bothered by that new Chevy TV commercial with the gas station and road infrastructure being built and rebuilt over the years in that beautiful mountain setting only to disappear after the new Algore GREEN Chevy vehicles come along to make all future traces of mankind disappear?

BTW #3 in the 1960 world of "Man Men" at least the cool people are Good Republicans as it should be!

[napscoordinator]

I am really glad I did not watch...I can’t stand Laura Linney!!!

[STONEWALLS]

....we didn’t watch...again. I did see a couple of episodes of John Adams however; then stopped watching that series...the Adams character reminded me of modern liberals....constantly indignant; always on the muscle.

[reagan_fanatic]

It’s like a bad movie - Hollywood’s pompous windbags, spoiled self-centered brats who are slaves to their enormous egos, will once again back another losing candidate, and once again make the mistaken assumption that Americans actually care what actors think of politicians.

Mensa candidates they are not.

[Sgt_Schultze]

Hysterical. Who exactly needs guidance from people who’s livelihood is derived by speaking words other people have written for them? Didn’t they use cue-cards last night?

[RayChuang88]

I think one reason why 30 Rock suffers in the ratings is the direct competition in the same time period: Grey's Anatomy and CSI, where these two shows draw around 40 million viewers according to the latest Nielsen ratings. This means relatively few viewers see 30 Rock in first-run broadcats.

[Gilbo_3]

As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly.

I recall nearly p!ssin myself during Les Nessman's live report...and the look on his face [with feathers in his hair] was priceless...

[Types_with_Fist]

Who is that in your picture?

I believe that guy (if it's who I'm thinking) is in the HBO show "Entourage." He plays the part of an agent for the "star" of the show.

[cookcounty]

They still have the Emmies?

[Vaduz]

All the more reason to move hollywood to Canada.

[cookcounty]

""I think right now America needs a prune," said Colbert, who pulled out a bag of the dried fruit and was presumably referring to GOP presidential candidate John McCain. "It may not may be a young, sexy plum. But this dried-up fruit has the experience we need."

Obviously a racist attempt to put down the young, darker candidate.