它只是F-Cking人物，不是吗？在艾美奖提名令人兴奋的一年中actuallywatch, there probably won’t be a typical Emmy ceremony at all. Which celebrities are going to cram themselves into sweaty outfits to sit beside 1500 of their sweaty peers?

Then again, maybe I’m giving that aspect of the Emmys too much credence. Because, no joke, the ‘live-from-home’ nominations this morning were nothing short of hysterical.

Here is how host Leslie Jones announced the comedy nominations, verbatim:

“Curb Your Enthusiasm

对我来说已经死了

好的plaaaaaaaace !!!!!

Insecure AAAAAHHHH!

The Kominsky... did I say that right? The Kominsky Method?"

The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel

Schitt的Creeeeeek ！！！aaaaahhhh！

What We Do In The Shadows”

Here’s the clip if you don’t believe me. It was spectacular:

In fact, the entire live announcement was way more fun than it had any right to be, from Tatiana Maslany just constantly commenting, “I can’t hear anything… I can’t see them,” to Leslie Jones trying to surprise Laverne Cox with her nomination for Best Guest Actress and getting the live-TV equivalent of blue balls for her efforts… and then makingthatinto amazing TV:

Truly you shouldwatch the whole broadcast, but if you can’t, please let those clips above bring you joy. This is what it’s like when you actually hire someone truly hilarious, instead of someone network-approved who is deemed to be hilarious by… someone, and then make them read a dry as hell script.

The feeling of the nominations actually reflecting what we’re watching continued through all the major categories, including 15 nominations forSchitt’s Creek和The Mandalorian,18 for奥扎克，26Watchmen –though I continued to be caught between the twin thoughts of “I 100% bet everyone is working their asses off and these nominations are totally deserved” and “I wonder who’s watching this show” when it comes toThe Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.“这些只是追溯性道歉的一面Gilmore Girls?” sneaks in too.

但老实说，这是财富的尴尬。我很高兴詹妮弗·安妮斯顿（Jennifer Aniston）的应有提名早晨的节目(and Steve Carell’s as well) even as I chortled at Laverne Cox and Leslie Jones being utterly, biased-ly delighted at the inclusion of Zendaya in the Best Actress in a Drama category, and that so many shows with strong-as-hell performers don’t have to choose between their strengths. Jodie Comer and Sandra Oh are both nominated for Lead Actress in a Drama for杀死夏娃(and yes, that category is so stacked it’s comedic – the ‘also rans’ are Laura Linney and freaking Olivia Colman!); Christina Applegate and Linda Cardellini are nominated in Lead Actress in a Comedy for对我来说已经死了, and Brian Cox and Jeremy Strong fromSuccession两者都被提名为戏剧中的主角。

Yes, sure, it means they’ll cancel each other out in some cases, but you know what? Who cares? All of these performers being nominated beside each other (see also: all four leads onSchitt’s Creek,和ALL FOUR of the other leads inSuccession– I can’t wait for Jacek to start saying “WAMBSGANS” ad nauseum again) proves that the shows themselves are spectacular, and that they shouldn’t have to choose a favourite child just so some other performance peopledon’tlove as much can be nominated.

My personal joys are that both Issa Rae and Yvonne Orji are nominated, that Cate Blanchett got the nod (and really, really should get the win) for her most terrifying performance yet as Phyllis Schlafly inMrs. America,和…!

While I’m very happy for Paul Mescal’s somewhat surprising nomination in普通人 -it’s deserved and probably speaks to the diversification of the Emmys voting body, in that we’re finally at the point where young, hot people can do sex scenes and be seen as talented actors at the same time – I’m saving all my screaming, Leslie-Jones-esque energy for A BLACK LADY SKETCH SHOOOOOOW!!!! It is easily the funniest sh-t I’ve watched all year, eerily prescient to boot, and I hope – Ihope– that whatever the hell ABC does to shoot the nominees somehow includes the, um, performers in that show’s theme song. If you know, you know.

The only critique, I suppose, is that when shows are this good, the writing and directing nominations tend to reflect that too – but since writers or directors are nominated for a single episode, as opposed to actors’ collective bodies of work over a season, there are often two or three nominations for a single show, which tends to make those categories kind of an eventuality.

I’m glad for逆天, and forUnorthodox。我为Ramy Youssef和Cecily Strong和William Jackson Harper感到高兴，而William Jackson Harper毫无疑问地有胃痛。我也很高兴Reese Witherspoon没有提名早晨的节目或者Little Fires Everywhere,因为 - 她会同意我的看法，如果她正在读这篇文章 - 她今年最强大的工作一直在镜头前，是最好的限量系列NOMLittle Firesbacks me up. I’m cautiously excited about the gender split in notoriously all-male writing and directing categories, though there are names that don’t automatically indicate a gender, and there’s still a major, disappointing lack of non-white nominees in those all-powerful categories (and, I bet money, on the names of the producers nominated for Best Everything).

尽管如此，仅凭明星的力量和表演，今年的艾美奖就应该*是多年来最激动人心的人之一……如果有实际的表演，也应该是那一年。来吧，ABC，让我们实现这一目标。我们需要。