Ellen may have missed out on winning her fifth consecutive trophy for best talk show, but last night’s 36th annual Daytime Emmy Awards were gayer than ever before.
The ladies of The View bested The Ellen DeGeneres Show for the talk show crown, but Ellen still took home four Emmys, including one for the promo of her interview with her wife, Portia. Ellen’s loss was quite an upset as far as awards shows go; no one from The View was even on hand to accept the Emmy.
The show was hosted by Vanessa Williams. In her opening musical number, a reworked “Can’t Take My Eyes Off of You,” Williams manages to call out lesbian super couple Otalia and embarrass Ellen. Williams also proves that one of her parents was Benjamin Button, because the woman is aging backwards.
The Otalia bit starts at 2:50, but the entire number is hilarious.
Jessica Leccia and Crystal Chappell, the actresses playing our favorite daytime lesbian couple Otalia, were on hand last night, which was bittersweet.
Guiding Light will be off the air in a month and All My Children has already shipped their lesbians off to Paris. Where will we go to be titillated now?
Other gay favorites, Tyra Banks and Sandra Oh, also attended last night’s awards show.
Oh presented Sesame Street with a Lifetime Achievement Award. The video is worth it just to see Oh’s guest appearance as the Cookie Fairy on the long-lived children’s television show.
What was your favorite part of the 36th annual Daytime Emmys?
