Whats the main difference between hosting a talk show and hosting the Emmys?
When you’re hosting the Emmys, no one gives a damn about you. The whole audience is thinking about themselves. So I have to make it as much about them as possible to keep their interest. Celebrities are like 4-year-old children. They are constantly thinking about their own needs — and they soil themselves. –The Emmys received a lot of press this year for nominating cooler shows. How will you reflect that in your hosting style? I’m gonna devote the first three minutes of my monologue to a minor character on ”The Shield,” and it’ll be so hip and inside that I’ll be the only one laughing…. I’m gonna make a lot of arbitrary references to Nelly and Alicia Keys. And I’m gonna keep talking about ”the chronic,” even though in my case it will be referring to a chronic lower-back pain. –Don Knotts won five Emmys for his work on ”The Andy Griffith Show” but was never even nominated while on ”Three’s Company.” Discuss. I believe that had he not tied a scarf around his neck, the Mr. Fu
