36th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards 2009 Winners: The View, Cash Cab, Elmo, ABC Soaps
Sesame Street Won a Lifetime Achievement Award and Elmo Won an Emmy
Quick: You're in the "Cash Cab" and Ben Bailey fires this question: Despite being shrill and obnoxious, this popular children's character and this popular daytime talk show's host both won Daytime Emmy Awards in 2009? Answer: The ladies from "The View" (Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar, Elisabeth Hasselbeck, Sherri Shepherd, Barbara Walters) and Elmo from "Sesame Street" won Daytime Emmy Awards in 2009.
Who missed the 36th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards 2009? If you did, don't feel bad. So did I. But, then, I'm not much of a daytime television kind of guy. I don't watch game shows. I rarely watch morning talk shows. And I haven't watched a soap opera since I was in college (if you don't count shows like "The O.C.". And nobody -- and I mean nobody -- watches the CW. But the 36th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards (2009), hosted by Vanessa Williams, were presented in Los Angeles on Sunday, August 30, live on the CW network, and one of my favorite shows, won an Emmy. No, it wasn't "The View," although I do watch the show on occasion, especially when they have a great co-host or someone in particular I want to see on as a guest (and I do catch them a lot on YouTube). It was "Cash Cab."
"Cash Cab" won a 36th Annual Daytime Emmy award for Game-Audience Participation Show. "Cash Cab" is like "Jeopardy" on wheels, only you don't have to answer in the form of a question (although I did see one guy doing just that the other day...). Although, personally, I believe him to be too nice a guy to pull off the New York cabbie routine, Ben Bailey (who really is a licensed New York City cab driver) does a great job as host of "Cash Cab." However, he lost that Daytime Emmy award to Meredith Vieira for "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?"
ABC walked away the big winner at the 36th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards (2009), winning five Emmys in the daytime dramas. CBS' "The Bold and the Beautiful" won for best Drama Series. But one has to wonder how a drama series wins as best when it does not win for writing. ABC's "General Hospital" (which, by the way, was one of the soap operas I watched in my college days) won for Writing.
he best Lead Actor in a Drama Series went to Christian LeBlanc on "The Young and the Restless." The best Lead Actress Daytime Emmy went to Susan Haskell from "One Life To Live."
"The Guiding Light," which will air its last show in September, won one last Daytime Emmy when Jeff Branson took home the Supporting Actor in a Drama Series award.
Everyone's favorite high-pitch-voiced fuzzy guy, Kevin Clash (and the voice of Elmo), won for best Performer in a Children's Series. That's right, Elmo won an Emmy. And Elmo's show, "Sesame Street," won the Lifetime Achievement Award.
And "The View" did win a Daytime Emmy. They won for best Talk Show Host. Best Talk Shows went to "Rachel Ray" (Entertainment) and "The Tyra Banks Show" (Informative). "The View" has won 25 Daytime Emmy Awards since it began its run in 1997.
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