No-show winners

So, the WGA West Awards are a little low wattage on the Hollywood star scale, even though there's a smattering of Oscar nominees here tonight like Josh Brolin, Taraji P. Henson and Frank Langella and TV stars that include Steve Carell, Jon Hamm and Julia Louis-Dreyfus.

But what's really strange is that half the winners didn't show up. Tired of the rubber chicken circuit? Wimps!

Maybe they were at Clive Davis' pre-Grammy shindig at the Beverly Hilton? Or just didn't want to fork over $150 for a ticket?

Charlie Grandy, who didn't win for "The Office," graciously bounded on stage and picked up the award that went to "SNL," and Jamie Lee Curtis got a kick out of presenting and accepting the award for children's long form script, especially since there had only been one nominee (Polly Draper for Nickelodeon's "The Naked Brothers Band," which stars her kids).

Awkward side note: None of the presenters seemed to know that the winners weren't in attendance, leaving them to scratch their heads, vamp and squint into the audience to see if someone -- anyone -- would come up and take this flying bird trophy.