Jimmy Fallon is hosting the Emmys this year (which is being televised on NBC as you know) and he says that it’s almost crucial to touch upon the whole NBC debacle with a few gags, which he has already planned with Conan.

FALLON SAYS CONAN GAGS WILL FIGURE IN EMMY TELECAST

Jimmy Fallon insists that neither NBC nor the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences is restricting him in any way when he hosts the Primetime Emmy Awards on Sunday. In an interview with DeadlineHollywood.com, Fallon said, “No one’s telling me anything like, don’t go here, don’t talk about Conan. We’ll touch on the stuff the network’s gone through. We’ll probably have a couple of jokes in there about all of the late-night stuff. You can’t not talk about it. And we have a couple of ideas with Conan.” Asked whether the network was “scared” about the possibility of violating the non-disparagement clause of its severance agreement with Fallon, the Late Night host replied, “Nah, it’s all cool. He’ll be there. At least that’s the plan. We’re not sure Jay is going to be around. We hope he comes, too. We’re not sure right now.” Asked whether he himself has any hope of someday hosting The Tonight Show, Fallon replied, “The one thing I’ve learned from [David Letterman and Conan O'Brien] is that hosting Late Night is a one-way ticket to not hosting The Tonight Show.

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The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien is nominated, don’t forget to watch this Sunday!

As you may have heard from all the news outlets and from our previous post, the writing category of the Emmy awards will not be part of the primetime televised portion this year, but instead will be part of the creative Emmy. The I’m With Coco Facebook group and our friends over at NoFactZone.Net are organizing a movement that can help put the category back on the main Emmy telecast. If you would like to help (which we encourage you to do so), it’s very easy, all you have to do is make the call to the Emmy planning offices to get the writers and directors awards back on the air!

Here are some tips that our friends over at the Colbert camp and the facebook gang have graciously sent over:

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It’s been reported that the Outstanding Writing for a Variety, Music or Comedy Series category will not be televised on the Primetime Emmy this year, but instead will be aired as part of the Creative Emmy Awards on E! Apparently, it’s an agreement between the guilds and the TV academy “in which they agreed that the writing and the directing competitions for best variety, musical or comedy series (aka “VMC’s”) and VMC specials (think “Kennedy Center Honors”) would take turns being part of the televised portion of the two-night Emmy ceremony.” It’s really a drag since it produces some of the biggest laughs (seriously, the only laugh) in the whole ceremony since we all get to see the writers’ nomination video from Conan’s team to Jon Stewart’s to Stephen Colbert’s writers.

SOURCES:

- NY Post
- TV Squad
- Deadline.com
- Washington Post

As you all may have heard by now (as I am late in updating this piece of absolute good news), The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien is up for FOUR Emmy Awards! Yay! And for those of you keeping score, Jay Leno’s version got none… (just throwing it out there)
Anyways, congratulations to every member of the staff and we are rooting for the win!

Oh, and here are some links that you can check out: Team Coco’s reaction, Emmy Official Nomination list, LA Times – The Envelope

The Tonight Show is on the ballot for 2010 People’s Choice Awards. You can help our favorite show become a one of the top five nominees by voting here. The top five nominees in each category will be revealed at the People’s Choice Awards annual press conference on November 10, 2009 and the award will be announced on January 6th, 2010. Five days left, go VOTE!