Jim Parsons is living the dream, unless, that is, he's living in a dream. Kyra Sedgwick is feeling Susan Lucci. Eric Stonestreet is secure in his Modern Family.
Here's what's going down backstage at the 62nd Primetime Emmy Awards:
7 p.m.: On stage, Comedy Series Lead Actress winner Edie Falco said she was not funny. Seriously, I ask, you're never funny? She laughs. But the Nurse Jackie star is serious: "I never really thought of myself as funny, no."
• Falco is getting grilled, and kinda exasperated, on the matter of how a former winner (for The Sopranos) could be so surprised to current winner. "I am not playing coy here," she says. "I really am just dumbfounded."
• Didn't John Lithgow win for Dexter last weekend? Yes, he did. But he's back here now. Or, rather, back here again. Concedes Lithgow: "I'm old news."
• In his speech at the Creative Arts Emmys, Lithgow (incorrectly) thanked HBO. Something of which he is well aware. "I thought nothing but Showtime thoughts all week," he says.
• Bryan Cranston has now won Lead Drama Series Actor three years in a row. He is totally fine about not being able to make it four years in a row (owing to Breaking Bad going on break until summer 2011). "What?!," he "vents" when reminded. "That is bullsh-t!"
• Just to be clear, Cranston really is totally fine. And then some. "I'm so grateful," he says.
• What was Kyra Sedgwick doing all those years she didn't win for The Closer? It sounds like she was keeping tabs on people like her. Says Sedgwick: "I like Susan Lucci. I think she's awesome…Martin Sheen never won for West Wing. I mean, how crazy is that?"
• Sedgwick smartly accessorized her press conference with a champagne-quaffing Kevin Bacon, who stood off stage.
6 p.m.: On a night of surprises, Parsons is among the most surprised. "This feels absolutely dream-like," the Big Bang Theory winner tells us. "The thought really crossed my mind on the way up [to the stage], 'Is this really happening?' "
• Parson's postwin plans will not destroy no one's image of Sheldon Cooper. Says Parsons: "I could rock out with some ice cream or something."
• Parson's overall press-conference demeanor will destroy no one's image of Sheldon Cooper, either. He greets us, instead of the other way around. He talks about reading almanacs in his spare time. He sings a song from his second-grade acting debut ("I'm a cola-cola bird…").
• Let it be said, Parsons is more self-aware than his TV geek self. Says Parsons after the almanac admission: "Boy, do I sound OCD."
• "I should leave," Parsons says after one of his mile-a-minute exchanges, "Somebody's going to come and take this award away." (Note: He exits without incident.)
• Top Chef's Padma Lakshmi has a postwin confession: "I was really mean to the host of [The Amazing Race] on the red carpet. I hit him twice with my purse."
• Lakshmi thought The Amazing Race was going to take the Reality-Competition Emmy because, well, it always does. Or did. I ask the Top Chef crew who they'd thought win if somehow, someway Amazing Race didn't. Judge Gail Simmons doesn't miss a beat: "Top Chef."
• Modern Family's Eric Stonestreet isn't worried about his first day back on the set given the fact that he won, and every other Modern Family actor, um, didn't. "This win is a win for the show," he says. "It won't be awkward at all."
• Stonestreet is an eloquent spokesman for his show—and modern families of all ilk. "My goal with Cameron [was]…I just wanted someone, somewhere to say, 'I'd sit down with that guy."
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