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The Crafty Monkey Awards: Our Best in Television for 2009/2010

Posted by Paul Little | Monday, August 30, 2010 @ 10:35am

Last night may have been Emmy night in Hollywood, but we all know the internet was clamouring for the real winners of the past season in television: The Crafty Monkey Television & TV Achievement Awards! As the last awards to make their official debut on ShowbizMonkeys.com (after the Melodic Monkeys and Golden Monkeys), the Crafty Monkeys are also running things a bit like the major awards shows. No, we don't have a "ceremony". Or "stars". Or "anybody noticing". But we do have nominees and winners in a whole host of television categories!

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Glee, Mad Men, SNL, and Lost lead nominations for this year's Emmy Awards

Posted by Paul Little | Thursday, July 8, 2010 @ 12:02pm

I'm going to be completely honest here: I'm a bit disappointed by this year's Emmy nominations. Sure, some usual faves who deserve nominations got them, such as Alec Baldwin (30 Rock), Neil Patrick Harris (How I Met Your Mother), and Hugh Laurie (House). And some names I was really hoping would be included, such as a trio of Lost actors (Matthew Fox, Terry O'Quinn, and Michael Emerson) and Betty White for her episode of Saturday Night Live (even though I still think Joseph Gordon-Levitt was the best host of last season). There were even a few pleasant surprises, like Andre Braugher getting a nomination for TNT's Men of a Certain Age and NBC/DirecTV's Friday Night Lights finally receiving nominations for leads Kyle Chandler and Connie Britton.

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2009 North American* Genius Monkey Comedy Award

Posted by Paul Little | Tuesday, February 16, 2010 @ 11:07am

The North American* Genius Monkey Comedy Award is given to a comedy writer/performer who is on his or her way up. Because comedy is not at all objective (despite how much we wish it was), ShowbizMonkeys.com figured that coming up with the absolute funniest comedian each year would be an impossible task. However, by selecting a rising writer/performer who already manages to make us laugh despite lacking years of experience in the business and the spotlight, we hope to bring to light someone who we feel will soon be at the top of the comedy game -- plus, we can kind of embrace the subjectivity of it all.

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30 Rock: Sun Tea

Posted by Jeff Anseeuw | Monday, November 23, 2009 @ 2:38pm

Liz’s building is being converted into condo’s and she doesn’t want to buy her small one-bedroom apartment because she thinks she will need a bigger place once she has a husband and family. She doesn’t want to leave either, however. Jack suggests that she try and bribe her upstairs neighbour to leave so she can buy both places.

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30 Rock: The Problem Solvers

Posted by Jeff Anseeuw | Saturday, November 14, 2009 @ 12:38am

Jack takes Liz out to dinner and tells her that NBC wants to produce a Talk Show based on her book, and Starring her. She excitedly agrees, until Tracy and Jenna talk her into getting an agent first to look after her business interests. Tracy and Jenna believe that they should get into the business of solving problems since they gave Liz such solid career advice. When Liz walks away from the deal and tells Jack of her intentions, relations between them cool off immediately, however.

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30 Rock: Stone Mountain

Posted by Jeff Anseeuw | Friday, October 30, 2009 @ 2:48pm

An exhausted Liz arrives back to 30 Rock after travelling around the country looking for the new cast member Jack wants her to hire for TGS. She has just returned from San Francisco and is about to head up to Toronto to continue to look for new talent. Jack says that she should be looking for someone in “middle America” instead. A Talk with Kenneth has Jack thinking that he should go to his home town of Stone Mountain, Georgia to find someone and he drags Liz with him on the trip.

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30 Rock: Into the Crevasse

Posted by Jeff Anseeuw | Saturday, October 24, 2009 @ 2:27pm

Liz continues to face the fallout from the release of her successful “That’s a Deal-Breaker” relationship book. Virtually every man she meets despises her for the trouble her book has caused them in their relationships with their wives and girlfriends who are now demanding better behavior from them. Every man, from the worker in the bookstore window (Jon Glaser) who rips the head off the Liz cardboard cutout, to the janitor who empties her garbage on the floor of her office instead of the trash can, seems to have a bone to pick with her. It is clear that in spite of her success as a relationship advisor, Liz will now need to work extra hard to actually achieve a relationship with a man of her own.

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30 Rock: Season Four

Posted by Jeff Anseeuw | Friday, October 16, 2009 @ 3:31pm

30 Rock returns from hiatus for another season after winning a gaggle of Emmy awards in both the performance and behind-the-scenes categories.

The fresh, new season starts with a fresh, new crisis on the set of TGS. The economic crisis has hurt NBC and Jack takes Liz, Jenna, and Tracy out for dinner to try and drum up ideas for how to better "connect with middle America" and bolster ratings.

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30 Rock and Mad Men among mostly predictable winners at the (thankfully) entertaining 61st Emmy Awards

Posted by Paul Little | Monday, September 21, 2009 @ 7:22am

After two years of horrible experiments gone wrong (Ryan Seacrest hosting "in the round" in 2007; five reality hosts handling the duties last year), the 2009 Emmy Awards were an entertaining show hosted by the always funny and charming Neil Patrick Harris. The bits were mostly winners -- especially the Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog "interruption", The Daily Show's John Hodgman announcing fake facts about the winners as they walked up to the stage, and Harris introducing presenters with their most obscure TV and movie roles. The presenters themselves were fairly entertaining, as well, with the highlights being Ricky Gervais and Jimmy Fallon. And though I was wary of separating the evening into award category segments (Comedy, Reality, Miniseries/Movie, Variety, and Drama), it turned out to work well for the flow of the show.

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30 Rock: The Ones

Posted by Jeff Anseeuw | Tuesday, April 28, 2009 @ 11:54pm

Jack takes Liz engagement ring shopping at a swanky store on 5th Avenue. He has decided that Elisa is indeed “The one” for him. Soon after, Elisa confides to Liz that she has been back in New York for a few weeks without telling Jack. She tells Liz that she loves Jack, but that she has a terrible secret that she cant bear to tell him. Liz is torn between respecting Elisa’s wishes to keep the secret a secret, and her friendship with Jack. She is relieved when Elisa sees Jack and immediately tells him her dark secret-she was married once before and killed her husband after he cheated on her.

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