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The Emmys were on last night. I didn’t watch them.

“I think this year you actually made a terrible mistake, but thank you.”

Jon Stewart makes his living speaking the words on all of our minds, and he didn’t take a vacation Sunday night just because he was on the Emmy Awards. The shrinking number of television viewers who actually watched NBC’s telecast of the Primetime Emmy Awards might have shared that sentiment by the end of the evening.

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The mistake Stewart referred to was rewarding “The Daily Show With Jon Stewart” over his Comedy Central partners at “The Colbert Report” in the variety, music or comedy series category. But his observation became more meaningful with the more egregious snub that came later: Stephen Colbert, a man Time magazine recently named to its list of 100 People Who Shape Our World, lost out to Barry Manilow for outstanding individual performance in a variety or music program.

“I lost to Barry Manilow! BARRY MANILOW!” Colbert screamed. “I lost to the Copacabana! Singing and dancing is not performing!”

It ain’t “The Colbert Report,” we agree.

Congradulations to The Daily Show. Jon and Stephen presented the emmy for “Best Reality show,” as well, later in the program. Crooks and Liars has a funny video of what ensued here. Multiformat, Quicktime and Windows Media choice.

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