These guys.

In brief:

Neil Patrick Harris was robbed.

Turns out Josh Groban has a sense of humor (ETA: get it while it’s still out there).

I still don’t care about Mad Men.

Tina Fey deserves it all.

I open the floor to comments. Particularly insults directed at the idiots pictured above.

I regularly watch the Tonys. Go ahead and laugh. I know it’s silly and a giant advertisement to go see a play and the awards are very predictable, but I have affection for the usual musicals and plays.

Last Sunday’s show featured the usual singing and dancing and Sondheim and Brits. It also featured the strangest acceptance speech I’ve ever seen. I did not understand what was going on.

According to youtube, he’s quoting from “The Back Country” by Louis Jenkins. Okay then, Mark Rylance!

The only other thing I know about Mark Rylance is that he doesn’t believe Shakespeare wrote the plays attributed to Shakespeare (thanks, New Yorker). I’m with Stephen Greenblatt on that one, though.

Anyway, the Tonys! Into the Heights and South Pacific and August: Osage County won, and I really want to see Passing Strange.

• John Stewart + Oscars = dud (I thought he did a good job, here’s a roundup of his gags)
• Here’s Jimmy Kimmel’s response video to Sarah Silverman
• HBO joins CBS and NBC and puts its shows online
• DC area stud/former OC actor Chris Carmack to join the cast of Desperate Housewives
• Weird guy recruits army of homeless to protest Discovery channel
• Washington Post celebrates 20 years of drunk crackheads in pit stained wife beaters
• The AV Club interviews the Terminator
• A roundup of the largest real life to fictional age differences in TV. They miss the 10 year age difference for almost every character on Kyle XY.
• 8% less love for Flavor Flav

You live in DC and blog? GTFO!

Despite being reduced to a fancy-looking press conference, as experienced at our house, last night’s Golden Globes were the best ever. After watching the surprisingly good Sarah Connor Chronicles pilot, we switched over to an already recorded copy of the Press Conference. We fast-forwarded through every single extemporaneous bit of commentary and watched a series of clips and award announcements in about 20 minutes. Like Dan, I had no interest in hearing what Billy Bush has to say about anything.

I’m very happy about the Tina Fey win, but awarding a perfectly good movie like Atonement when you have two  movies that are head and shoulders above every other movie released this year really highlights what a farce the whole Golden Globes thing is. They’re awarded by an association of fewer than 90 entertainment journalists. Why their opinion means anything is beyond me. In a category with 6 nominees you could get a plurality with 15 votes. Anyway, There Will Be Blood was robbed.