Imagine if the same six or seven movies and their actors, writers, directors, etc. kept getting nominated for Oscars every year.  There would be slight deviations but for the most part, Academy members would just take their ballot from last year, peruse a couple of For Your Consideration ads, maybe read a critic’s list or two as a second source to make sure they weren’t making any selection deemed interesting, and you’d wonder if they just showed a repeat except they somehow replaced Jon Stewart with Hugh Jackman.

“TV’s Finest Night” is always a repeat and you cherish just about anyone who hasn’t won an Emmy in the past no matter the quality of the show.  Yes, “Mad Men” and “30 Rock” are excellent shows but barring a steep decline in quality, I already know who’s going to win next year because the Emmys are a bunch of lazy wimps who don’t watch anything outside the ten shows they already love.  Hit the jump for a list of tonight’s winners and only grumbling since this farce isn’t worth the energy of a blinding rage.

I have made no secret of my love for Neil Patrick Harris as I applaud both his self-lampooning in the “Harold & Kumar” movies as well as his stellar work on the fantastic comedy series, “How I Met Your Mother”.  After last year’s disasterous quintet of reality show hosts presenting the Emmy awards, CBS has tapped one of its biggest stars, Harris, to follow up his well-received stint hosting the Tonys by hosting television’s congratulatory wankfest.  It may also be odd because Harris is almost guaranteed to grab yet another Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy nomination for his work on “HIMYM”.  Of course, there won’t be the awkwardness of him winning because why do that when you can just give it to Jeremy Piven again (for those keeping count, Piven has won the award three years in a row for playing Ari Gold which doesn’t speak as much to Piven’s performance as it does to the fact that most Emmy voters probably just Xerox their ballots).