Emmy's Rant

I was going to write a nice little review of the Emmy's but because I failed to watch the whole show (for reasons I'll explain later), I decided to go on a rant about award shows in general and why they make me angry. 

First off, the host. Now I have nothing against Neil Patrick Harris, but everyone knows that hosting an awards show is not an easy task. You have to be able to keep not only the audience there, but the audience at home entertained for close to 4 hours! That's tough. I propose that they get rid of hosts all together. Their only real purpose is to open/end the show and introduce the presenters and performers. What I think should happen is you get really hilarious comedians to open and close the show and I'm not talking about actors on really funny comedies. I mean people who are comedians for a living and that's it. They may dabble in other things but they have to be hard core comedians. For example, Ellen (which, so far, is the only reason I'm watching the Oscar's this year), Kevin Hart, Eddie Murphy, and Gary Owen. People whose purpose is to make us laugh. Then you can get some voice over announcer to do all the other stuff. 
The other thing that really makes me mad is the lack of non-whites nominated/winners. (I have nothing against everyone else I'm just pointing out an obvious problem that gets talked about a lot.) Unless you're watch a specialized award show like the NAACP Awards or the ALMA Awards, you're not going to see many people of color nominated, or even in the audience for that matter! That is a problem. And yes, you have to have a really great TV show/movie to even be considered for an award. So this is the question I have to ask: Where are the folks that are willing to make these movies and TV shows with great non-white actors?! It's just really frustrating and especially when there is a plethora of people from the same show nominated in the same category. That really makes me mad. It's like an unfair advantage. To my knowledge there was only about 3 Black people nominated and NONE of them won and that just stinks!!

So I'm done. Award shows are really fun to tweet about and since I love to tweet I will continue to watch and talk about all the things that I like and don't like.