I just finished watching the Emmys on FOX, and two things kept going through my mind:

  1.   Wow, this is so much better than the VMAs, even if Kanye West was on both; and
  2.   Ryan Seacrest is so desperate to come out.

ryan-seacrest.jpgI’m not going to lie and say the perpetually manicured host did a bad job.  He for damned sure took a step up on the Emmys from that same tired smugness he displays week-in and week-out on American Idol.  But still, he took a moment to go off-stage and comment on Eva Longoria’s shoes to say, “Christian Lebouton?”  How many straight guys do you know that could identify a women’s shoe designer…ANY shoe designer for that matter?  That’s right.  Exactly zero.

And then, after he lept onstage in a seemingly pointless Henry the VIII costume from The Tudors, he said that the outfit looked a lot gayer on him than on the rack.  He quickly followed the joke with “Can I keep it?”  I’m sure he did, and I’m sure it will turn many a head later tonight in West Hollywood.

I think tonight’s performance gave new irony to his little catchphrase — “Seacrest out!”  Why, yes, Ryan, you certainly are.