Saturday, September 16, 2017

...And Answers

Here are the answers to yesterday's Emmy quiz:

1. Cloris Leachman holds the record with 8 Emmys.  However, Julia Louis-Dreyfus has 7 and is up for her eighth this year. 

2.  L.A. Law won four Emmys as best drama, but not in consecutive years.

3.  In 2013, Louis C. K. was nominated 9 times in various categories—acting, writing, directing, producing, editing—for his show Louie, for his stand-up special and for a guest appearance on Saturday Night Live.  He only won one Emmy for writing his special.

4.  Henry Fonda was nominated for 3 Emmys, but never won (while his daughter Jane already has one—she also won an Oscar before he did.)

5.  2006 was the last year a broadcast network won for best drama.  The show was the Fox series 24.  However, NBC could break the cold streak if This Is Us wins this year.

6.  Jessica Fletcher herself—Angela Lansbury—has never won an Emmy.  But don’t feel too bad—she’s got an honorary Oscar, five Tonys and a bunch of Golden Globes.

7.  Many have been nominated, but the only host of the Oscars to win an Emmy is Billy Crystal, who did it twice--in 1991 and 1998.

8.  Jonathan Banks is getting his fifth chance to win his first Emmy this year.  He’s been nominated for playing Mike Ehrmantraut on Breaking Bad and now on Better Call Saul.  In 1989, he got his first nomination for playing Frank McPike on Wiseguy.

9.  Eddie Murphy was nominated for his work on SNL, but did not win.

10.  Werner Klemperer won the supporting actor Emmy in 1969 as Colonel Klink on the comedy Hogan’s Heroes.  He was up against Leonard Nimoy in the drama Star Trek because back then the category was for any genre.

3 Comments:

Anonymous Lawrence King said...

My instincts were more reliable than I thought.

(6) I actually thought of Angela Lansbury, because I always picture her when I think of gracefully aging TV actresses. But then I thought, no way -- she was only in one major TV series. But now that I look it up, I see that Murder, She Wrote was nominated over and over and over.

(8) I actually thought of Ehrmentraut. A friend of mine knows him, and I loved him in Breaking Bad. But then I paused and said, he's been a great supporting actor in two series, but I can't think of a third. I never heard of Wiseguy.

(10) It was a guess, not a joke. I tried to think of military TV shows from the late 60s. All I could think of were Gomer Pyle and Hogan's Heroes, and I figured GP was off the air before 1969 (I was wrong), so I picked HH. As comedy goes, it was pretty long-lasting; it was still in reruns throughout the 1970s and maybe early 1980s.

8:53 PM, September 16, 2017  
Blogger LAGuy said...

I remember Banks quite well from Wiseguy. He was the best thing in the show. But it was so long ago that he seems like a different person.

Lansbury got six Emmy nominations for performances outside Murder, She Wrote, though often for recreating roles she'd played on stage.

10:46 PM, September 16, 2017  
Blogger ColumbusGuy said...

Have you tried to watch Murder She Wrote? Can't be done.

3:48 AM, September 17, 2017  

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