2001 - 07 - ELLEN...ELLEN...ELLEN
Ellen Degeneres (Emmy Host, 2001)
Bryce: "After canceling the Emmys twice, I am so glad we finally got them done tonight. And I thought the somber restrained tone you chose was just perfect."
Ellen: "Somber and restrained?! Those jokes took weeks to write and I rehearsed them a hundred times until I had the timing perfect."
Bryce: "I laughed my ass off. Really."
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Ellen actually was PERFECT as the host. I'll never forget her jokes about welcoming us "to the 53rd, 54th and 55th Emmy Awards" and how she was "the Taliban's worst nightmare" by being a Jewish lesbian woman in a pants suit.
