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No selfie for Emmys

LOS ANGELES — Seth Meyers will take the stage on Monday night as host of the 66th Primetime Emmy Awards. The job has plenty riding on it: Last year’s Neil Patrick Harris-hosted ceremony brought in the kudofest’s highest ratings in eight years, while this year’s Oscars — complete with Ellen DeGeneres’ famous selfie photo — was the highest rated of that ceremony in 14 years. Is Meyers up to the task?

LOS ANGELES — Seth Meyers will take the stage on Monday night as host of the 66th Primetime Emmy Awards. The job has plenty riding on it: Last year’s Neil Patrick Harris-hosted ceremony brought in the kudofest’s highest ratings in eight years, while this year’s Oscars — complete with Ellen DeGeneres’ famous selfie photo — was the highest rated of that ceremony in 14 years. Is Meyers up to the task?

“I’m always so impressed, like when Jimmy Fallon did it four years ago or when Conan (O’Brien) did it, when you watch people who are just good at this stuff and just build it around their strengths. I think that’s good to remember and to try to do your Emmys as opposed to try to do someone else’s Emmys,” he said.

“We’re really hoping to have really good jokes all the time,” Meyers said of the show. “With something like this, the level of success is because the jokes are really good. We hope that by the time the monologue’s over, which is obviously the most important thing the host does, that people are going to be good and ready for the next few hours of awards.”

The key difference from this year’s show to last year’s, added Meyers, is that the show is a day later — on Monday night (Tuesday morning, Aug 26, Singapore time). “They’ve got to remember to watch it,” he quipped.

And how is Meyers going to top DeGeneres-Oscar selfie moment? “We’re talking with some local supermarket chains about some promotional opportunities,” he said, adding that his digital moment would be an app download. “At one point I’m going to take out my Blackberry and try to download an app. We’ll see how long that takes. But I think there will be some kind of digital element but we aren’t really approaching it that way. We’ll see what comes up. The nice thing is when events happen now, Twitter makes it digital without you having to do anything.” REUTERS

Catch the Emmys red carpet show on E at 6am (Starhub Ch 441), and the pre-show and awards ceremony on MediaCorp TV Channel 5 (from 7.30am). All on Aug 26.

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