The Hollywood Reporter The Hollywood Reporter The Gold Rush

« '30 Rock,' 'Breaking Bad' win at WGA | Main | No-show winners »

February 07, 2009

'SNL' and Rainn Wilson get trophies

Sarah_silverman How about a little writers strike nostalgia from Sarah Silverman?

Why not?

"Last year at this time we were on strike and it sucked," she said before presenting a couple of WGA awards Saturday. "But looking back, it was kind of fun because we were all in it together."
And Silverman and the writers from her Comedy Central show had a battle plan -- 45 minutes of picketing, some "civil disobedience" in the form of firing up a joint, and then 45 more minutes of protest.

Good times!

And speaking of politics, which of course we were, the writers from "Saturday Night Live," who juiced the show this past season with a boatload of biting presidential election humor, snagged the award for comedy/variety series. (Among the competition were the also timely "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart," "The Colbert Report" and "Real Time with Bill Maher").

And, much to Silverman's chagrin, her boyfriend Jimmy Kimmel lost comedy/variety special to Rainn Wilson, who hosted last year's "Film Independent Spirit Awards" and couldn't help but point out how meta it was to win an award for an awards show at an award show.


Posted in animation |

TrackBack

TrackBack URL for this entry:
https://www.typepad.com/services/trackback/6a00d83451d69069e2011168527cf0970c

Listed below are links to weblogs that reference 'SNL' and Rainn Wilson get trophies:

Comments

The comments to this entry are closed.

About this blog

Oscar Contenders

  • So "The Dark Knight" didn't make it into the final five after all, never mind that critical and popular support. Let's just call the comic-inspired mega-hit "The Biggest Snubee."

    Here are the best picture contenders in a race that, two weeks away from the Oscars, seems to be a foregone conclusion ("Slumdog") unless there's a come-from-behind possibility ("The Reader" anyone?)

    "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," with Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett; the politically timely "Milk;" rags-to-riches fairy tale, "Slumdog Millionaire," Holocaust best-seller-based drama "The Reader," and Watergate-era biopic "Frost/Nixon."

    Could "Button" and "Slumdog" split the vote, allowing another film to take the prize? Doesn't seem likely. After having clung to "Button" for months as what we thought would be the Academy voters' top vhoice, our money's now on "Slumdog." Momentum can't be ignored.

    Watch this blog for updates, ephemera and all manner of postulating.


© 2010 The Hollywood Reporter. All rights reserved. Terms Of Use and Privacy Policy.