Big winners

 

At least he acknowledged that the live Emmy telecast is running late because of the drawn-out banter, or whatever that was, from the five unscripted show hosts.

But we still had to sit through it. Painful.

So Jeff Probst only gets partial credit for saying what we all already knew. Probst, a perennial winner, just snagged another Emmy for hosting "Survivor."

"30 Rock" just won for best comedy, and "Mad Men" for best drama. Both somewhat preordained, but their wins still pack a wallop.

Another winner tonight, Alec Baldwin, called his co-star Tina Fey "the Elaine May of her generation," and she represents a rare female writer/actor in the business who has a showcase in prime time TV. And she's given the freedom to do an unconventional comedy that pokes fun at the very world it inhabits.

"Mad Men," years in the making because Matthew Weiner couldn't sell it, has put AMC, a little cable network best known for showing old movies, on the map. Go and do likewise, the rest of you.