"Modern Family" creator Steven Levitan summed up the 65th Primetime Emmy Awards telecast when he accepted another outstanding comedy award for the show."This may be the saddest Emmys of all time, but we could not be happier," he said.The CBS telecast, hosted with gusto by Neil Patrick Harris, was smothered by five "in memoriam" tributes to individuals as well as a montage late in the telecast. It was, in a word, a bummer.Harris tried to bring up the energy with jokes and a mid-broadcast song-and-dance number called "The Number in the Middle of the Show." But nothing seemed to help. Every time the show got moving, a tribute cast a pall over the proceedings.Most of the presenter banter was strained and only a few acceptance speeches drew laughs. Here are the night's best moments, which were few. (Click through the gallery at top of page for images from the telecast.)Accepting the variety series Emmy for "The Colbert Report," Colbert cracked, "It's a cliche to say it's an honor just to be nominated. It's more than that; it's also a lie. This is way better." When he accepted the writing award, he said, "Wow, the Emmys are so good this year." If only that were true.In a pre-taped howler, the cast of "How I Met Your Mother" do a commercial for the Ryan Seacrest Center for Excessive Hosting, where they send Neil Patrick Harris because he is suffering from Excessive Hosting Disorder.When Julia Louis-Dreyfus accepted her award for "Veep." fellow winner and costar Tony Hale followed her to the stage, standing behind her just like his "Veep" character does in the show. He whispered names and comments into her ear so she could complete her speech.Merritt Wever, a surprise supporting actress winner for "Nurse Jackie," was rendered pretty much speechless, thus delivering the night's most honest and brief acceptance. "Thank you so much," she said. "I gotta go. Bye."Amy Poehler and Tina Fey show why they are the funniest ladies of the moment, again. During Harris' opening skit in which past hosts offered him advice, the women cat call him from the audience with comments like,"Take your pants off! And twerk it!" When he said that would be degrading, Poehler responded, "It might be degrading, but we would be de-grateful."Diahann Carroll, who was the first African-American to win in Emmy way back when, showed she's still a pro. "It's been such a long time since I've been standing in this place, I don't know what to do," Carroll said. "But the men are much more beautiful than when I was doing television. I don't know where you came from, but I'm very happy to see you." ||||| CLOSE Here's a recap of who took home the hardware from the Emmy awards. USA TODAY NETWORK 
 
 Jimmy Kimmel delivers the opening monologue during 68th Emmy Awards at the Microsoft Theater. (Photo: Robert Hanashiro, USA TODAY) 
 
 You expect mean from Jimmy Kimmel. You just hope you'll also get funny. 
 
 When he hosted the Emmys in 2012, the balance was off. Sunday, making his return as ABC's host, he hit the mark right all night. 
 
 The first sign that things would go better came with his opening taped bit, which included a Carpool Karaoke stint with James Corden and climaxed with a shockingly funny cameo by Jeb Bush as a limo driver. "Were you nominated?," he asked Kimmel. "Wow, what's that like?" 
 
 The monologue that followed was short and, for Kimmel, almost sweet. Oh yes, there were jabs at Marcia Clark, Donald Trump (who was mentioned, perhaps, a bit more often Sunday than was wise) and Maggie Smith — a bit that paid off later when she won an Emmy — but they were more good-natured than nasty. He even let himself be made the butt of a joke, as Matt Damon came out to mock him for losing to John Oliver in the talk show category. 
 
 It was a pattern that held out through the show, from an amusingly silly bit involving peanut-butter sandwiches to a more pointed yet still funny joke built around using Bill Cosby as a presenter. That alone was an excellent example of why this Kimmel hosting stint went so much better than the last one: He had a better sense of where the “too much” line lies, and other than an ill-advised in memoriam joke, he avoided crossing it. 
 
 As for the awards themselves, the drama categories gave us two of the Emmys' best choices: wins for Mr. Robot's breakout young star, Rami Malek, and Orphan Black's Tatiana Maslany (joined in the supporting categories by Downton Abbey's Maggie Smith and Bloodline's Ben Mendelsohn). It's a shame the Emmy voters didn't keep that streak going by picking either Robot or The Americans over HBO’s repeat winner Game of Thrones — but still, those other wins were almost enough to make you think they've finally actually started to watch television. 
 
 There were also a few surprises on the comic front, with Louie Anderson’s win for playing a mother in FX's Baskets followed by Kate McKinnon's even more surprising award for NBC's Saturday Night Live. I’m not sure how anyone is supposed to compare work in a sketch show to a sitcom or, in Transparent's case, a show that is closer to a drama than a comedy. But those are the kind of comparisons the often illogical Emmy categories force voters to make. 
 
 Jeffrey Tambor called for Hollywood to "give transgender talent a chance," accepting the award for outstanding lead actor in a comedy series for 'Transparent.' (Photo: Robert Hanashiro, USA TODAY) 
 
 The comic surprises stopped with the Best Actress and Actor categories: Julia Louis-Dreyfus won for the fifth time in a row for Veep — a repeat, sure, but a well-deserved one. (And who could be cruel enough to object, after she revealed that her father died Friday?) That was followed by another repeat winner, Jeffrey Tambor for Transparent, but in his case any other result would have been a miscarriage of justice. Oh, and there was a second-straight win for Veep — a good show, but not so good that it needed to repeat. 
 
 Sarah Paulson as embattled prosecutor Marcia Clark in FX's 'The People vs. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story' (Photo: FX) 
 
 The movie and miniseries awards went pretty much as expected — but then, shocks here would have been truly shocking. FX’s superb The People vs. OJ Simpson: American Crime Story won for Best Limited Series while also taking acting Emmys for Sarah Paulson (the night's one true lock), Courtney B. Vance and Sterling K. Brown, along with the Emmy for writing. The only downside? Seeing FX's also superb Fargo get shut out — and seeing PBS's shamefully weak Sherlock: The Abominable Bride win a shamefully weak movie category. 
 
 The Emmy broadcast is never going to be the world's most exciting: It's long, it lacks glamour, and it drags in the variety-show middle. Still, overall, you got some surprises, some coronations, some well-earned repeats, and some funny moments from a strong host. 
 
 Pretty much all you could hope. 
 
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 Seth Meyers Hosts 
 
 The Late Night host emceed the Emmys, kicking off his TV industry-targeted opening monologue by poking fun at the fact that the awards show was scheduled on a Monday, "which, if I understand television, means the Emmys are about to get canceled." The new time slot was chosen to avoid overlapping with Sunday's MTV Video Music Awards. Of MTV still holding an awards show for music videos, which they rarely show anymore, Meyers quipped: "That's like network TV holding an award show and giving all the awards to cable and Netflix," which drew raucous applause. When a joke fell flat, he said, "Jokes are like nominees: They can't all be winners." 
 
 The Saturday Night Live alum also made jokes about Orange Is the New Black and True Detective's category controversy, How I Met Your Mother's not-so-well-received series finale, The Good Wife's and Homeland's decision to kill off their main characters, and The Big Bang Theory cast's million-dollar episodic paycheck, telling Jim Parsons, "You're worth every penny." 
 
 Beyonce? 
 
 To present the award for best supporting actor in a comedy series, Meyers called on "Beyonce," which then cued Amy Poehler to walk onstage from her seat in the audience and jokingly announce what she said was the first award: "Best Onscreen Orgasm in a Civil War Reenactment." 
 
 Supporting Actor, Comedy 
 
 Modern Family actor Ty Burrell took home his second Emmy for playing Phil Dunphy in the ABC comedy. He read a speech written by his castmates noting that his kids aren't " 'I can support my whole family' cute" and that he was "so excited for this award, and I can't wait to give it to Nolan Gould," the actor who plays his onscreen son, Luke. 
 
 Writing, Comedy 
 
 Louis C.K. won the statuette for penning the Louie episode "So Did the Fat Lady." He humbly said, "I'd like to thank Ron Lynch, who gave me my first shot as a comedian, and Conan O'Brien, who gave me my first job on television. That goes way back." 
 
 Movie Stars at the TV Awards Show 
 
 Before presenting the award for best supporting actress in a comedy, Jimmy Kimmel jabbed Matthew McConaughey for being nominated for a TV award. "You just won the Oscar five months ago — no offense, but how many of those speeches are we supposed to sit through?" he joked. "Should we give you the BET Award for best male hip-hop artist?" He compared the True Detective actor's "movie star" face to that of Ricky Gervais: "That is a television face! Not really a television face, that's a Netflix face! … You don't belong here, and take Julia Roberts with you, while you're at it!" Kimmel also shouted out to Tracy Morgan, who was injured in a car crash earlier this year: "We'll see you here next year." 
 
 Supporting Actress, Comedy 
 
 Allison Janney took home the statuette — her sixth overall — for Mom, opposite Anna Faris. "She is the sister I never had. She is the daughter I never had." 
 
 Directing, Comedy 
 
 Gail Mancuso won her second consecutive Emmy, for directing Modern Family's "Vegas" episode. She also came up with a novel way to stop herself from crying during her speech, telling Matthew McConaughey, "If you don't mind, I'm just gonna make eye contact with you right now." 
 
 Emmys in NYC? 
 
 In a special Billy on the Street segment, Billy Eichner and Seth Meyers walked around New York City to see how the Big Apple feels about TV's biggest night. Unfortunately, a passerby mistook Meyers for Seth MacFarlane, and another called the statuette an "anniversary." They also collected donations to meet the paycheck demands of The Big Bang Theory cast and raged over how Mindy Kaling had to get up at 5 a.m. to announce the Emmy nominations but wasn't nominated for The Mindy Project. 
 
 Clark Gable and Tim Whatley 
 
 A mustachioed Bryan Cranston and Julia Louis-Dreyfus took the stage to present the award for lead actor in a comedy but not before the Veep star poked fun at the Breaking Bad actor's facial hair. "Hold on, Clark Gable," she said, noting he looked a lot like a recurring character on Seinfeld, dentist Tim Whatley, one of Elaine Benes' many love interests. At which point Cranston "reminded" her that he played Whatley and that they "actually had a kissing scene together." 
 
 Lead Actor, Comedy 
 
 Jim Parsons won his fourth career Emmy for The Big Bang Theory, telling his fellow nominees, "To say that I watch your work and I feel inspired is a bit of an understatement. ... I see people doing things, in all seriousness, that are so divergent and all over the place and all of us doing such different things that I do pray to do one day. I really do. But that's the landscape we live in. And this is all a long way of saying there's no accounting for taste, and that it's through a lot of good fortune I stand up here tonight." He also thanked his late father for the first time. 
 
 A Bit of Perspective 
 
 Before presenting the award for lead actress in a comedy, Jimmy Fallon stated one quick truth: "None of us will make as much money as Kim Kardashian did for her iPhone game." 
 
 Lead Actress, Comedy 
 
 Julia Louis-Dreyfus won her third consecutive Emmy for Veep, and after presenter Jimmy Fallon interrupted her kissing fest with Bryan Cranston — "Yeah, he was on Seinfeld," she admitted — she noted (out of character), "The show is very dense. It's a huge labor of love." 
 
 The Truth About Reality 
 
 Mindy Kaling and John Mulaney noted the truth about the category they were presenting. "Reality shows are the exact thing you make your husband watch before you have sex with him," said Kaling, while Mulaney added, "They're also the thing putting hundreds of writers out of work." 
 
 Reality Competition 
 
 The Amazing Race won the category's award for the 10th time. Said Bertram van Munster, "The world is not a bad place. Actually, you can go safely to a lot of places, contrary to what they make you believe." 
 
 Meyers' Odd Q&A 
 
 In an awkward bit, Meyers took questions from the star-studded audience. Jon Hamm asked whether or not the show would be televised, and was shocked to learn he was currently live on the air. Melissa McCarthy wondered about her car potentially being towed for illegally parking on the sidewalk out front, blaming Edie Falco for telling her to simply leave a note. Andre Braugher wanted the key to use the bathroom, and Julianna Margulies asked, "I see that Maggie Smith isn't here tonight — if she wins the Emmy, can I have it?" (No, because someone already called it: Hamm.) And Fred Armisen asked if the annual event would happen every year. 
 
 Writing, Miniseries/Movie 
 
 Steven Moffat nabbed the writing award for Sherlock: His Last Vow, immediately apologizing to PBS Masterpiece for ignoring their advice to prepare a speech. "A huge thanks to my brilliant, sexy producer, whom I also married," he said. "And although I would marry him, I haven't married Mark Gatiss. He should be up here because every word of Sherlock is down to him as well." 
 
 Supporting Actress, Miniseries/Movie 
 
 Kathy Bates won for American Horror Story: Coven, and though she touted the upcoming season and made fun of her seating arrangement in her speech — "I came in tonight and I was way over there and I thought, 'Yeah, that's right. I'm not going to win.' " — she told reporters backstage that she nearly dedicated the win to Robin Williams. 
 
 Supporting Actor, Miniseries/Movie 
 
 In a bit that fell flat, Stephen Colbert noted that the greatest supporting actor on television is his invisible — and only — friend, Rosco, whom he then proceeded to embarrass with his effusive praise. "Walk away, walk away, that'll solve everything!" Colbert shouted to an empty stage. "Walk away like all my imaginary friends have!" he continued, then remembering, "Damn it, he has the limo driver's number!" And when an absent Martin Freeman won for Sherlock: His Last Vow, Colbert noted, "I accept this award on my behalf." 
 
 Directing, Miniseries/Movie 
 
 Colin Bucksey won for directing the Fargo episode "Buridan's Ass" — "I'm so glad I got back from the loo in time!" he said. 
 
 True Detective 
 
 Seth Meyers called on Amy Poehler to help him introduce True Detective stars Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson. Meyers suggested that the HBO anthology "was like making love: I didn't understand what was going on, but I liked it," while Poehler said the actors both "seemed like they'd be chatty in the sack." Also of note, they're "the only actors in Hollywood not rumored to be starring in season two of True Detective." 
 
 Lead Actor, Miniseries/Movie 
 
 Woody Harrelson quoted Matthew McConaughey's "All right, all right, all right" line, and the two then poked fun at their memorable True Detective moments. Harrelson added that his co-star had most of "the plagiarized lines — was that too inside of a joke? Yeah." They then announced that an absent Benedict Cumberbatch had won the lead actor in a miniseries or movie award for Sherlock: His Last Vow. 
 
 Lead Actress, Miniseries/Movie 
 
 Jessica Lange took home the lead actress in a miniseries award for American Horror Story: Coven. "I am profoundly surprised at this, but very grateful," she said. 
 
 "Weird Al" and Wordless Theme Songs 
 
 After Brooklyn Nine-Nine star Andy Samberg joked that he was co-hosting with Seth Meyers, the two noted that today's theme songs don't have words that explain the plot of the show, like The Brady Bunch's did. Weird Al Yankovic then added lyrics to the wordless theme songs of Mad Men, Scandal, Homeland, Modern Family and Game of Thrones. 
 
 Joffrey Is Back 
 
 As Game of Thrones actress Lena Headey presented the award for best miniseries, Andy Samberg showed up alongside her dressed as a recently poisoned Joffrey. 
 
 Miniseries 
 
 Fargo took home the award for best miniseries. "This is a true story: The first time I talked to Joel and Ethan Coen was when they called me after they read the script, and I had a baby strapped to me — I mean, my baby, not a random baby," recalled Noah Hawley. "And they said, 'Look, we hate imitation, but it was eerie reading this because it felt like you were channeling us.' So who else can I thank but Joel and Ethan Coen, who, of course, don't watch the Emmys." 
 
 TV Movie 
 
 HBO's The Normal Heart took home the award for best TV movie. Director Ryan Murphy thanked playwright Larry Kramer in his speech — "We did this for him." — and credited the production's realism to Julia Roberts and Mark Ruffalo: "It took the super powers of Erin Brockovich and the Incredible Hulk" to get this movie made. He also asked viewers to donate to HIV/AIDS organizations. 
 
 Ricky Gervais' Pseudo-Win 
 
 The lead actor in a comedy nominee seized his award-presenting moment to vent about not winning for Derek. "I lost again. Twenty-one times I've been nominated, lost 19 times. … Well done to Jim Parsons though — I would've preferred to have won it. Also, I've come a long way; he's probably local! Four years in a row seems unfair, doesn't it?" He then chose to read his prepared acceptance speech anyway: "Ha ha, I won. I knew I would, because I'm the best actor." 
 
 Writing, Variety Special 
 
 Sarah Silverman won for her variety special, Sarah Silverman: We Are Miracles. "Thank you to my Jews at CAA," she began her speech, closing with, "We're all just made of molecules, and we're hurtling through space right now." 
 
 To All Internet Trolls 
 
 Presenter Chris Hardwick shouted out to Internet trolls because "they provide a public service to everyone in this room, because they dare to tell us the truth. Anonymously!" He then looked into the camera and told all of them, " 'Your' is a possessive pronoun. 'You're' is a contraction!" 
 
 'The Col-What Report?' 
 
 While presenting the winner of the variety series award with Adam Levine, fellow Voice coach Gwen Stefani unfortunately mangled the show title, The Colbert Report, mispronouncing the host's last name as something closer to "Colborg," which Levine quickly tried to correct. (The incoming Late Show host promised backstage that he will be parodying Stefani's flub on his Comedy Central program: "I think I might just change my name to Colborg. I am the Colborg, resistance is futile. Oh, you will be absorbed.") 
 
 Variety Series 
 
 Jimmy Fallon poked fun at the moment when he ran onstage to accept the accolade. "She said it wrong, so there must be a mistake!" he said before continuing to make a speech on Stephen Colbert's behalf. Colbert then whispered his thanks into Fallon's ear, telling him to thank the host's family and refer to IMDb for the full list of people he'd thank. 
 
 Rotating Sofia Vergara 
 
 As Academy of Television Arts and Sciences president Bruce Rosenblum explained the Academy's mission, he had Sofia Vergara stand on a rotating platform, triggering the audience to cheer when faced with her bum. "We always give our viewers something compelling to watch," he joked. (Though the segment was seen by some viewers as "sexist," Vergara shook off the idea.) 
 
 Supporting Actor, Drama 
 
 Aaron Paul took home his third Emmy for Breaking Bad. "I miss him. I love him," he said of his character, Jesse Pinkman. Before shouting out to his wife's organization, The Kind Campaign, he said to Bryan Cranston: "There's not a single day that goes by that I don't miss running to work to work opposite you, my friend." 
 
 In Memoriam 
 
 Sara Bareilles sang Charlie Chaplin's "Smile" during the ceremony's In Memoriam segment. 
 
 Honoring Robin Williams 
 
 Billy Crystal gave a heartfelt tribute to his good friend, the late Robin Williams. "He made us laugh hard every time you saw him on television, in arenas, hospitals, homeless shelters, and even in a dying girl's living room," Crystal said of Williams. "The relentless energy was kind of thrilling." 
 
 Directing, Drama 
 
 Cary Joji Fukunaga won the directing award for the True Detective episode "Who Goes There." "You're gonna need a broom for all the names I'm about to drop," he warned at the beginning of his speech. 
 
 Supporting Actress, Drama 
 
 Anna Gunn won her second Breaking Bad Emmy. "It is luck that brought me seven years ago to getting a phone call from Sharon Bialy, our amazing casting director, who said, 'Get your patootie in here and read for the show. It's the best pilot script I've ever seen.' She was right, and it turned into the most extraordinary journey over the past seven years, and I have been unbelievably fortunate." 
 
 Writing, Drama 
 
 Moira Walley-Beckett won for penning Breaking Bad's "Ozymandias" episode. "Vince Gilligan, this is your fault!" she said, thanking the showrunner. "Thank you for your mentorship and your mad skills, yo." 
 
 Lead Actress, Drama 
 
 The Good Wife star Julianna Margulies won the Emmy for lead actress in a drama. "What a wonderful time for women in television," she said. 
 
 Drama Actors' Competition 
 
 It was a tough race in the category for lead actors in a drama, and even presenter Julia Roberts felt the heat. "This is horrible! This is a horrible category. God I'm glad I'm not in this category," she said after announcing the nominees. "You're all fabulous, by the way." 
 
 Lead Actor, Drama 
 
 Bryan Cranston took home the Emmy for lead actor in a drama for Breaking Bad. "Even I thought about voting for Matthew," he said of fellow nominee McConaughey, and added of the acting craft, "It is a passion of mine, and I will do it until my last breath." And to his onscreen wife, Anna Gunn, he said he loved working with her, "especially those scenes in bed." 
 
 Comedy Series 
 
 Modern Family won the comedy series category for the fifth consecutive time. "It's a wonder we get to do this for a living," co-showrunner Steven Levitan said in his acceptance speech. "Modern Family has been a beautiful dream for the last five years, and we thank you for not waking us up." 
 
 Drama Series 
 
 Breaking Bad won the final award of the night. "Thank you so much for this wonderful farewell," said Vince Gilligan. "This is indeed a wonderful time to be working in television." 
 
 Email: Ashley.Lee@THR.com 
 
 Twitter: @cashleelee ||||| Poor Seth MacFarlane. Until Sunday night, hosting the Oscars must have seemed so easy. What did he have to do, really, to shine? Avoid inexplicable cross-dressing and increasingly slurred words à la James Franco, try not to pull a Ricky Gervais and openly offend half the nominees, and he'd be a hit. It's such an impossible task, hosting an awards show; the best you can hope for is not to bomb. 
 
 Then Tina Fey and Amy Poehler took the stage at this year's Golden Globes. Lovely, brilliant and utterly fearless, they made awards-show hosting an art form again, helming three hours of occasionally hilarious, occasionally emotional and surprisingly enjoyable TV. 
 
 The Golden Globes, man; who knew? 
 
 PHOTOS: Golden Globes 2013 red carpet 
 
 The show's opening dialogue had only one flaw — it had to end. Introducing the Globes as the only awards show in which "the beautiful people of film rub shoulders with the rat-faced people of TV," Poehler and Fey, both nominated for actress in a comedy or musical series, never stopped smiling even as they confused the acronym for the Hollywood Foreign Press Assn. with a disease and, within the first few minutes of the show, brought audible gasps from the audience by effectively ending the controversy regarding "Zero Dark Thirty." 
 
 "I haven't paid much attention," Poehler said, "but when it comes to torture, I trust the lady who spent three years married to James Cameron." 
 
 Poehler has the best deadpan in the business, wide-eyed and enthusiastic, responding only to the alternate universe occurring within her brain; Fey is a close second, somehow managing to project both oblivious security and hyper-alert insecurity with the same expression. "Anne Hathaway is here for her performance in 'Les Misérables,'" she said, adding that she "had not seen anyone as alone and abandoned since you were on stage with James Franco at the Oscars." 
 
 PHOTOS: Nominees & winners | Red carpet | Best & Worst 
 
 Fey also gave a shout-out to "Jennifer Lawrence, star of 'Silver Linings Playbook,' and Quentin Tarantino, the star of all my sexual nightmares," while Poehler announced that Meryl Streep, though nominated, was not present because "she has the flu. And I hear she's just fabulous in it." 
 
 Seriously, they could have done an hour set and everyone would have been happy. Not since Jimmy Fallon hosted the Emmys three years ago has an awards show been this much fun. 
 
 Not only did the quality of the hosting further legitimize an event that the entertainment media inevitably go out of their way to disparage even as they grant it Oscar-like coverage, Poehler and Fey proved once and for all that the choice of host really does matter. 
 
 PHOTOS: Highlights from the show 
 
 Beyond providing specific hilarity throughout the show, they infused the telecast with a sharp professionalism that made room for a surprise visit by former President Bill Clinton, a show-stoppingly hilarious set by presenters Kristen Wiig and Will Ferrell (front-runners for next year's hosts) and a deeply felt but undeniably strange speech from Jodie Foster. 
 
 By deftly trodding the line between audacious and sarcastic, the hosts sustained an atmosphere that was both inclusive and sharply comedic, relying on their improv skills and longtime friendship to help the telecast live up to its reputation as the loosest and most revelatory of the awards shows. 
 
 Clinton's unprecedented appearance to introduce the clips of "Lincoln" (not to mention Steven Spielberg's undeniably smug little salute of welcome), a win by "new mum" singer Adele and the introduction of Foster's at times baffling speech by her much more lighthearted friend Robert Downey Jr. didn't hurt either, giving the show a "what next?" quality rare to the genre. 
 
 Golden Globes 2013: List | Best & Worst | Winners | Ballot | Show moments | Quote 
 
 So when Paul Rudd and Salma Hayek gamely endured a broken teleprompter, when Hathaway thanked Sally Field for providing a "Flying Nun" to "Norma Rae" career trajectory, when Jennifer Garner took time out from her role as presenter to thank the folks (George Clooney and Grant Heslov) that her husband, Ben Affleck, had just left out of his acceptance speech for directing "Argo," when Lena Dunham of HBO's "Girls," winning for actress in a comedy or musical, thanked her fellow nominees for helping her surivive middle school, the show did feel like a genuine industry party rather than an overly produced parade of mechanical self-indulgence (although there was inevitably some of that too). 
 
 Changing costumes and taking the stage after they both lost to Dunham, Fey hoisted her cocktail and said: "Congratulations, Lena Dunham, I'm so glad we were able to get you through middle school." Which would have been the best line of the night, had Poehler not decided to close the show by saying, "Thank you, good night and we're going home with Jodie Foster." 
 
 Beat that, McFarlane. 
 
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 PHOTOS: Show highlights 
 
 
 
 PHOTOS: Best & Worst moments at the Globes 
 
 PHOTOS: Red carpet fashion at the Golden Globes 
 
 mary.mcnamara@latimes.com
– People are talking about the Emmy Awards on a Tuesday morning instead of a Monday because "this year we're doing the Emmys on a Monday night in August—which, if I understand television, means the Emmys are about to get canceled," quipped host Seth Meyers. Some of the highlights, as per PopSugar, Celebuzz, USA Today, and the Hollywood Reporter: As Julia Louis-Dreyfus went up to collect her prize for lead actress in a comedy series, Bryan Cranston swooped in to give her a passionate kiss that lasted a full 11 seconds. "Yeah, he was on Seinfeld," she said afterward. Billy Crystal offered a heartfelt tribute to his old friend Robin Williams during the "in memoriam" segment. "As genius as he was on stage, he was the best friend you could ever imagine," he said. "It's very hard to talk about him in the past because he was so present in our lives." "Weird Al" Yankovic's medley of theme song parodies poked fun at shows including Game of Thrones, Modern Family, and Mad Men, with lines like "Jon Hamm's never won an Emmy—oh, who cares, he's still Jon freaking Hamm!" Gwen Stefani had what critics are calling an "Adele Dazeem" moment when she mangled the name of The Colbert Report as she announced its win for best variety series. Jimmy Fallon then rushed the stage, saying, "She said it wrong, so there must be a mistake." Fallon proceeded to deliver an acceptance speech that Stephen Colbert whispered in his ear. "I think I might just change my name to Colborg," Colbert said backstage later. Click for a full list of the winners.