Emmys and the VMAs

It is a sad, sad world when the Emmys are more exciting than the Video Music Awards...I expected more from MTV.

But when both of the award shows aired last week, it seemed as if Conan and his Emmy awards beat out Jack Black and the VMAs...

The Emmys, even though the list of nominees looked more like a blast from the past than the cutting edge nominations that we had hoped for, was funny without being rude. Conan can make anything funny...even annoucing the accounting team.

The VMAs have always been a site of controversy, people fighting, climbing on the set, and then the infamous Britney-Madonna-Christina kiss. But this year...yawn...nothing much happened. The preshow interviews were either with black rappers who I had never heard of or punk rockers who I had heard of but did recognize. Seeing clean-cut Nick Lachey was a welcome change!