{"id":441,"date":"2014-08-23T19:35:32","date_gmt":"2014-08-23T19:35:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.popculturedblog.com\/?p=441"},"modified":"2020-01-21T20:31:06","modified_gmt":"2020-01-22T01:31:06","slug":"emmys-the-supporting-actors-comedy-series-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.popculturedblog.com\/?p=441","title":{"rendered":"Emmys: The Supporting Actors: Comedy Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now, how about we\u00a0lighten the mood (in most cases, anyway) with a few funny men.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>You heard my spiel in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.popculturedblog.com\/?p=439\">the video I posted<\/a>, and it\u2019s true: once the nominees are set and they (and their \u201cpeople\u201d and\/or the network) pick the one episode for Emmy voters to judge their past year\u2019s performance on, I watch all of them. Yes, ALL. (Nerd alert!)<\/p>\n<p>I figure, if you\u2019re going to be an armchair awards prognosticator, you need to do your homework. Thank goodness for summer travel and all its trains, planes and subways, because that, my friends, is a lot of TV.<\/p>\n<p>So, give or take three hours later, here are some musings from the Pop gallery:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Fred Armisen, &#8220;Portlandia&#8221;:<\/strong> Fred is funny, and he gets to play a number of entertaining characters in his submission, \u201cPull-Out King.\u201d But aside from one in particular\u2014the ultimate tailgater guy\u2014I didn\u2019t find them to make a lingering impression, the culprit no doubt being the format of the show. Unlike the other reels where you follow an actor\u2019s character through an arc and come to know them, the \u201cone-and-done\u201d approach doesn\u2019t usually snag the statue.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Andre Braugher, &#8220;Brooklyn Nine-Nine&#8221;:<\/strong> He\u2019s won twice in the drama race, and what he does in \u201cChristmas\u201d\u2014ranging from Ray\u2019s frustrated, stoic cop fa\u00e7ade to more tender moments with his husband and members of the force at his holiday party\u2014is only going to garner him more fans among voters. His spot-on line deliveries, powerful presence and major screen time all bode well for Braugher.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Ty Burrell, &#8220;Modern Family&#8221;:<\/strong> As classic\u2014and impressive\u2014as a supporting comedy actor\u2019s reel can get: Burrell showcases his stellar range in \u201cSpring-a-Ding Fling,\u201d from touching father-daughter scenes with Haley, who fills in as his date to the Realtor\u2019s Banquet, to an endearingly goofy song-and-dance.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Adam Driver, &#8220;Girls&#8221;:<\/strong> This guy can do no wrong in my book. Far and away the best part of Girls (a show I like, and know as many of you loathe as love), Driver comes to the forefront as Adam makes his Broadway debut in the season finale, \u201cTwo Plane Rides.\u201d The dramatic forefront, that is. There are tears in the dressing room scene, roars in the alley later on and more tears when things get real with Hannah. Heartbreaking, but sadly (literally), not funny.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Jesse Tyler Ferguson, &#8220;Modern Family&#8221;:<\/strong> On first reaction, I thought Tyler Ferguson got it wrong by not submitting his sweetly moving work in the wedding season finale, but he\u2019s pitch-perfect when Mitchell confronts Jay over his feelings about the nuptials in \u201cMessage Received.\u201d And he\u2019s not only good throughout the episode, he\u2019s sympathetic\u2014and voters love themselves a sympathetic character.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Tony Hale, &#8220;VEEP&#8221;:<\/strong> Last year\u2019s winner, he didn\u2019t have all that much to do that was memorable in \u201cCrate\u201d until the bathroom scene where Gary struggles with a bloody nose as Selina gives him the news of POTUS\u2019s plan to step down. Here, Hale makes up for lost time, seamlessly running the gamut from tears to side-splitting hysterics in a matter of seconds.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>The Breakdown:<\/strong> Either of the Modern Family guys could easily\u2014and very justifiably\u2014win, and though Hale is a one-scene threat that shouldn\u2019t be counted out, I think this one is Braugher\u2019s to lose.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What do you think? Is Andre really going to make another trip to the mic? And stay tuned: next up is The Supporting Actresses: Drama Series<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now, how about we\u00a0lighten the mood (in most cases, anyway) with a few funny men.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":491,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-awards-season","category-tv","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.popculturedblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Slide141-e1408832161448.jpg?fit=690%2C517&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Y92X-77","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.popculturedblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.popculturedblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.popculturedblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.popculturedblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.popculturedblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=441"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.popculturedblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1712,"href":"https:\/\/www.popculturedblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441\/revisions\/1712"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.popculturedblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.popculturedblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.popculturedblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.popculturedblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}