You know what the best thing about the Daytime Emmy awards was? It was Wendy Williams swaddling her breasts in Marc Bouwer.
Talk about your Boom Boom Pow! How you doin', breastesses?
(And though Wendy wasn't part of the mess of this award show, there's enough hot mess action on her show for fans of the hot mess to gorge five days a week, so check your listings for her show in syndication.)
Once I saw Wendy walk the press line it all went downhill. And something happened last night at TV.com's Richard Lawson just can't fathom:
Not that the Emmy Awards really mean much--an awards bestower that never gave a single one to best-show-ever The Wire doesn't earn a lot of respect--but every year we hope that some light switch will be turned on and things will change. Alas, last night's Daytime Emmy Awards once again let us down. How? By giving an award to the damn View.
The award was for Best Talk Show Host, which means people like Sherri Shepherd and shrill little titmouse Elisabeth Hasselbeck have been singled out, on live national television, for doing the best job out of all their daytime talk show peers at saying interesting words and being informed and nimble interviewers. Which, no.
And of course he's right, but with Oprah being above it all and them slicing the talk show pie into entertainment and information, there's not much competition out there.
The best informative talk host? Tyra.
Tyra Banks. Yes, I'm serious.
The program itself, from the arrivals show on, was also a hot mess of trying to insert pre-taped interviews into a live show, Lara Spencer trying to work an off-the-shoulder thing that was just wrong, a bunch of soap actors I didn't know ... and a lot of channel switching to whatever else was on.
I tried though. I really tried.
Tom O'Neil has a list of major category winners at this link.
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