Did Seinfeld ever win for Best Comedy Series? IT's too bad Frasier won 5 straight years! over Seinfeld. Was Seinfeld not good enough or was it that Frasier WAS good? (I don't watch Frasier)
Also, does anyone recall the episodes nominated for each year?
I'm pretty sure Jerry and Julia didn't win any best actor/actress emmy's but did Michael or Jason win any supporting actor Emmy's?
Mukul Joshi wrote:
Frasier is "cute". It has quick dialogue but is not a monumental series as Seinfeld was. It breaks no new comedic ground and relies on the same tired sexual innuendo, in-jokes about the unseen pathetic Maris, and cheap dramatic irony (when the audience knows what one character is taking about but the other character thinks it is about something else) Without David Hyde Pierce it would not be anywhere. I think he carries that show. He deserves any Emmy's he gets
There are too many nominations to list here. But Dave has them listed in the FAQ http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Set/7217/faq.html When reading them I was shocked at how FEW Emmy's the program Seinfeld won. That says a lot about the award show business.
The News Guy(Mike) wrote:
Seinfeld won the year before Frasier began its run. That is its only Best Comedy Emmy, and it was a fluke that it even won that one. That season was brilliant, of course, but the fact of the matter is that Seinfeld is not the type of show the Emmy committee likes to recognize. Even if you are the most hilariously funny show and your writing contains a cleverness most shows only dream of, that is not enough; they prefer shows that "have substance" to them.
That's certainly not the attitude the Emmy committee has toward Frasier. I like Frasier, but my attitude is similar to yours. I don't think it is, or has ever been, the best show on television. Most critics disagree with me.
Julia and Michael both won Emmies, and it's a travesty that Jason didn't.
There are at least two major problems with the Emmy awards. They reward or punish shows based mainly on reputation, and they do not take a show's entire season into account. Even if twenty episodes are total crap, four good ones can be, and often are, enough for an award.
They won the best comedy series in 1993 and both Julia and Michael won for best supporting actor/actress in a comedy series. I believe Michael won two years in a row while Julia won in 1997?
On Sat, 24 Jul 1999, Keith Davenport wrote: