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February 12, 2009

Awards sour grapes from Colbert

Best actress nominee Kate Winslet has already said she's sick and tired of putting on the Game Face and piling up Oscar losses, five in all. How about a win, already? But nobody does awards outrage better than Stephen Colbert.

Not only was he railing Wednesday night about being passed over for the WGA Award for best comedy/variety series (the trophy went to the resurgent Tina Fey-fueled "Saturday Night Live") and the Grammy for spoken-word album ("An Inconvenient Truth" beat his "I Am America and So Can You").

But the world wasn't finished kicking him in the Golden Globes, he said.

His dander is really up about losing the Westminster Dog Show to a 10-year-old Sussex Spaniel named Stump. Oh, the indignity.

At least he still has his Peabody and his Emmys to keep him warm.


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