Woo-hoo! CNNNN tied with Kath & Kim for Outstanding comedy series. Yay! I love it when cool and talented people break into this tacky shit. I feel they enjoy it on many more levels. Charles Firth was classic, getting 'serious' and saying "Let's not forget what this night is all about [significant pause]... Promoting Channel Nine's line-up for the coming week." Hee hee. And then he started to pretend to get 'emotional', almost choking up while reeling off the shows; "Who Wants to be a Millionaire on Monday nights, McLeod's Daughters on Wednesdays...And what about Jamie Packer!" with his mates having to pull him away from the microphone, James Brown style [minus cape], before he got carried away by the significance of the occasion. Classic!

By the way, Tosser Statement of the Night came from Eddie Maguire[obviously. He's such a crap host]. When introducing Delta, he was getting all serious about how we all know she's had a hard year, blah blah, and then he decided that the best way to convey that her life's turned a corner was with these words; "Well, tonight she has a new boyfriend, and a new look...." ARGH! Tosser!

And no, the Most Disturbing Moment of the night wasn't seeing what was growing on Rove's face [but that came a close second]. Rather there was something about him that was far more disturbing, and it was revealed during his Gold Logie acceptance speech. It suddenly became clear to me how upbeat and credulous he is about the Logies and their worth. Dude! That's like, insupportable! Like, only 50,000 votes are cast IN TOTAL to decide ALL the 'Most Popular' categories, and, as Amanda Keller reminded me on Mondo Thingo this week, votes are cast by people who actually buy TV Week, ie. by people who don't realise that TV guides come in the paper for FREE! And there's also the problem of Logie fixing and stuff, which we don't know much about. How involved are the publicity departments of each network? How do they decide which new young thing to give prominence to? Stuff like that. We shouldn't, like, applaud a conscious decision to ignore what might be wrong with the Logies, and prefer to heap praise on them as an 'Australian institution', blah blah, and make jabs at any elite types who might diss them. I'm just saying, if we are going to have them, then they shouldn't be so irritatingly flimsy or shonky, and yet so valorised. We so need a better and more credible awards system, or we at least need industry types not to be so damn precious about them! Either we make them more tacky or we make them more credible. We can't have the situation we have now, with people getting overwhelmed and earnest about their 'success' and thanking the 'people of Australia' for supporting them and shit like that. It might be a much more rarefied thing than it claims to be. I mean, it's nice that Rove won the Gold. Even though I hate him, he was the best of the nominated bunch. But that's what was also scary about the night. You know how I said I like it when cool talented people [or even jusy okay ones] break into this tacky shit? Well, Rove is now an exemplar of what happens to them if they're so grateful for it that they lose their wits about the spuriousness of the damn things. Long live CNNNN! That's all I'm saying.