“It is an honor to be here sharing this night with the many, many talented and creative people who haven’t been caught yet,” co-host Michael Che announced at the beginning of the 70th Annual Emmy Awards. It set the tone for a toothless, flaccid, cramped and tedious night. What can …
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“This is TV’s highest honor – us celebrating us,” Stephen Colbert announced at the start of the 2017 Emmy Awards. “Tonight, we binge ourselves.” It was a joke about smug self-congratulation probably intended to sound more ironic than it did. The Emmy ceremony, as always, was a night of the …
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