“ One of the recurring themes among the winners was to use their speeches to attack “old media”. “There’s nothing good on TV,” proclaimed one chap, apparently unaware of the popularity of Hulu – or of the billions of Family Guy, Simpsons and Daily Show and, uh, Saturday Night Live clips that make up the only watchable parts of YouTube. The claim that the awards prove that we don’t care about lame old television is also hard to square with the winners of almost all of the most high profile awards. Lisa Kudrow took best comedy performance, Isabella Rossellini won best individual performance, Sarah Silverman got best actress and Trent Reznor picked up best artist. I mean, seriously? The funniest performance on the web in the past 12 months honestly and truly came from Lisa Kudrow? No from one from the truly brilliant collegehumor.com cast? Not from Felicia Day for the Guild? But from a television actress performing in a web show that 85% of people in the room hadn’t heard of? The nearest we came to seeing a genuine web celebrity picking up one of the major categories were Biz and Sir Tim, but even they had to be introduced by superstars of the small screen lest the crowd get bored.
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June 11, 2009
Hi! I'm Ricky. I live in the West Village, New York City, USA.
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