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Wednesday, December 08, 2004
The ongoing Daily Show media watch The complete list of Grammy nominations showed up as one of my New York Times e-mail news alerts for the Daily Show. On the 8th of the 14 HTML pages the list took up, I found their nomination: 77. Comedy Album: "Come Poop With Me," Triumph The Insult Comic Dog; "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Presents ... America: A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction," Jon Stewart and The Cast of the Daily Show; "The Funny Thing Is ... ," Ellen DeGeneres; "Live at Carnegie Hall," David Sedaris; "The O'Franken Factor Factor -- The Very Best of the O'Franken Factor," Al Franken.(Can I just say how incredibly amused I am that the New York Times had to print the words "Come Poop With Me"? It's almost as good as the year "Bring In Da Noise, Bring In Da Funk" was nominated for a lot of Tonys, and all these grand dames and highfalutin' artistes of the the-a-tuh had to go onstage and say it when they were presenting the awards.) As I clicked through the pages, I was wondering, in these exact words, "How the fuck-hell many Grammy categories are there?" After finding the Daily Show's nomination, I skipped ahead to page 14 to get the final number: 107. Jesu Cristo, that's a lot. My favorite "who'da thunk?" category—even more than "Traditional Tropical Latin Album" (there's no category for non-traditional tropical Latin albums) and "Small Ensemble Performance (with or without Conductor)" (yeah, conductors, you heard me, we don't need you!)—is "Album Notes." Yes, really. It's nice to know they're recognizing the contribution of album-note writers, I guess; if the producers and the arrangers and the composers and the lyricists and the conductors and the singers and the instrumentalists and the spoken-word speakers and even the box-set designers are getting awards, the person who writes down all their names and makes the album make sense deserves something too. [ at 4:35 PM • by Abby • permalink • ] |
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