The Emmy nominations are Thursday and Prince is eligible as Best Actor in a Guest Role. Will he be nominated? Will he win? If he does this will make him one award shy of the EGOT Club (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony). I feel a Tony award will be easy for prince to win if he's asked to commision some music for a musical most likely based on his life and career. What do you think?

He'll never have a Tony. He might get the Emmy though, he was very funny and had a sizable role within the episode considering it was just a guest appearence.

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It would be wrong to feed his ego with an Emmy for that performance. It was funny, but an Emmy?

It was not great acting. But it was very much Prince.

CynicKill said:

The Emmy nominations are Thursday and Prince is eligible as Best Actor in a Guest Role. Will he be nominated?

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Very doubtful. Wasn't especially great and the competition is fierce: http://www.goldderby.com/...actor.html

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Will he win?

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Hell to the no. Bob Newhart will win for his appearance in "The Big Bang Theory".

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Look, these people don't even mention Prince: http://www.thewire.com/en...es/373841/ Just look at all those possibilities:

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Sims: The Guest Actor category is similarly crowded with supporting performances masquerading as special guests (Jonathan Banks on Community, Pablo Schreiber on Orange is the New Black, Gary Cole on Veep) that could slip in because of their increased exposure. There's also the same batch of perennial contenders, like Nathan Lane's Pepper Dennis character in Modern Family, or Bob Newhart's Professor Proton on The Big Bang Theory, for which he won his first ever Emmy last year. Both of those strike me as locks to return. An SNL host is usually nominated — Louis C.K. was there last year, and could return, or perhaps Jimmy Fallon or Andy Samberg.

Reid: Totally with you on Nathan Lane and Bob Newhart. Write those names in with magic marker. The "SNL host slot" is somewhat tricky. A Louis C.K. nod could be yet another "We really like Louie, honest! Stop yelling at us for not voting for it to win Best Comedy!" attempt. But something tells me Fallon's rise to Tonight Show prominence gives him the edge. I've got my eye on one of those Tim Conway performances to show up here, too — Two and a Half Men, I suppose? Otherwise, I've got my other eye on dead-show nominations for The Crazy Ones (Ed Asner and Brad Garrett, both Emmy faves) or How I Met Your Mother (John Lithgow), or else just a complete Modern Family sweep (they've got strong contenders in Fred Willard, John Benjamin Hickey, and Jesse Eisenberg). But how about these two for consideration as actors playing themselves: Jerry Seinfeld for Louie or James Earl Jones for The Big Bang Theory. Both likely Best Comedy nominees. Both Emmy favorites.

Sims: The one argument against Seinfeld: he's never been nominated for playing himself. I would have called him a lock for 30 Rock way back when and he didn't get in then either, nor for Louie last year. But he's definitely on my list of possibles from that show, as is Charles Grodin (a respected actor whose work on Louie was devastatingly memorable) and Jeremy Renner (a big star whose work on Louie was also pretty memorable!). And maybe five-time nominee Scott Bakula will sneak in for his wonderful work on Looking.

The Hot in Cleveland Factor: Once again, Cleveland is flooding the ballot with potential nominees, so many of them Emmy faves, from one-time nominee Max Greenfield to recurring faves like John Mahoney and Jesse Tyler Ferguson. The big dogs in the yard? Tim Conway (who we should just predict for four nominations and let the chips fall where they may) and William Shatner, whose six nominations and two wins for Boston Legal defied all laws of logic or good taste.

Predicted Nominees: Gary Cole, Veep, Tim Conway, Two and a Half Men; Jimmy Fallon, Saturday Night Live; Nathan Lane, Modern Family; Bob Newhart, The Big Bang Theory; William Shatner, Hot in Cleveland.

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As for this:

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I feel a Tony award will be easy for prince to win if he's asked to commision some music for a musical most likely based on his life and career.

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If it was that easy he'd already have one. Unlikely because this would require him to relinquish control. Just look how much trouble WB went through when they wanted to release a greatest Hits back in the late 1980s/early 1990s.

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I know the episode was submitted for consideration. I found the 20th Century Fox box set they sent to Emmy voters on ebay.

Who has EGOT status exactly? People like Liza Minelli. Now I think we can all agree that Prince looks too much like the illegitimate child of Liza, if she had been sleeping with Charlie Chaplin (and if he had been black).

2020 said:

wait for it...wait for it...

"I told you!"

MASTERPIECE

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daPrettyman said:

I know the episode was submitted for consideration. I found the 20th Century Fox box set they sent to Emmy voters on ebay.

Excellent find. I was going to question if they even submitted him for the nomination, because that meant promoting it. Could happen.

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Tony Awards are fixed worse than the MTV Movie Awards. Broadway is a monopoly.

To the shock of maybe three people, Prince was NOT nominated for an Emmy this morning.

renfield said:

To the shock of maybe three people, Prince was NOT nominated for an Emmy this morning.

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In fact, New Girl didn't receive a single nomination, just like last year.

renfield said:

To the shock of maybe three people, Prince was NOT nominated for an Emmy this morning.

Saw that on tv

Kind of a bummer, but then again I was the cheerleader for Fallinlove2nite to be his first Top 100 single in the US in the million years. Prince got almost universal kudos for the New Girl appearance and it would have been nice for him to get a little more traction from it. But as discussed ad infinitum, he doesn't seem to care and he has since moved on to about 40 or 50 next things since then.

Maybe next year he should try for a guest appearance as the kinky new warden on "Orange in the New Black". That would nail an Emmy nomination for sure.

renfield said:

To the shock of maybe three people, Prince was NOT nominated for an Emmy this morning.

It was submitted for nomination but do not let that stop you from your foolishness.

renfield said:

To the shock of maybe three people, Prince was NOT nominated for an Emmy this morning.

Not a shock to me.

laurarichardson said:

renfield said:

To the shock of maybe three people, Prince was NOT nominated for an Emmy this morning.

It was submitted for nomination but do not let that stop you from your foolishness.

I think it would have been great for him to be nominated and I certainly wasn't rooting against him. So in what way was that 'foolishness'? The real foolishness was the handful of people on here screaming "zOMG Prince is going to win an Emmy for his amazing acting on New Girl!!!!!!" Nice that they submitted it, but anyone paying any attention to anything other than Prince knew that was never really in the cards. And even on the off chance he had been nominated, there was absolutely no way in the world he was going to win. I think a lot of Prince fans are constantly disappointed because they had unrealistic expectations to begin with.

Pick your battles better and maybe experiment with a sense of humor.

renfield said:

laurarichardson said:

It was submitted for nomination but do not let that stop you from your foolishness.

I think it would have been great for him to be nominated and I certainly wasn't rooting against him. So in what way was that 'foolishness'? The real foolishness was the handful of people on here screaming "zOMG Prince is going to win an Emmy for his amazing acting on New Girl!!!!!!" Nice that they submitted it, but anyone paying any attention to anything other than Prince knew that was never really in the cards. And even on the off chance he had been nominated, there was absolutely no way in the world he was going to win. I think a lot of Prince fans are constantly disappointed because they had unrealistic expectations to begin with.

Pick your battles better and maybe experiment with a sense of humor.

Your post comes off as rooting against him and thinking anyone that thought he had a chance was silly for thinking such a thing.

He apperence was submitted for consideration so know one who thought he had a chance was being unrealistic since who could have been nominated.

I have a good sense of humor and would have laughed at your post if it were funny. It came off as scarcastic and uppity so keep trying if humor is what you are striving for.

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He should've been nominated. They gave two throwaway noms to Louis CK and Jimmy Fallon for SNL guest stints. Please.

No "Good Wife" for Best Drama!

No Gabrielle Union (the biggest long shot) for "Being Mary Jane". And yes, it stands up to any "complicated" white girl performance currently on the tube.

No Brandy for Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy! It's a crime.

laurarichardson said:

renfield said:

To the shock of maybe three people, Prince was NOT nominated for an Emmy this morning.

It was submitted for nomination but do not let that stop you from your foolishness.

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So? Hundreds of things were. Submitted for nomination means zilch.

laurarichardson said:

Your post comes off as rooting against him and thinking anyone that thought he had a chance was silly for thinking such a thing.

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And so they were. This wasn't gonna happen.

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He apperence was submitted for consideration

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"His" not "he". And so what, submitted means zilch.

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so know one who thought he had a chance was being unrealistic since who could have been nominated.

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That sentence literally makes no sense at all. I suspect "know one" should be "no one", but then it still makes no sense.

CynicKill said:

He should've been nominated. They gave two throwaway noms to Louis CK and Jimmy Fallon for SNL guest stints. Please.

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I suggest you read the links I've posted. Those explain it really well. Note that Prince wasn't on anyone's list of possible nominations, and for a good reason.