The TV IV:IVy Awards/2008/Best Recurring or Single Performance in a Comedy Talk, Variety or Sketch Series

Candidates to be considered the Best Recurring or Single Performance in a Comedy Talk, Variety or Sketch Series for work in a series which first aired one or more episodes in the United States between January 1, 2008 and December 31, 2008. Please read carefully the Definitions and Guidelines before putting a candidate up for nomination.

Definitions

comedy

Any live-action episodic (airing on a recurring basis), non-limited series categorized as a Comedy on the TV IV.

talk, variety or sketch series

Any series which fits the definitions of either talk show, variety show or sketch comedy as they are defined in the TV IV Glossary, excluding those shows produced by network news or sports divisions for the purposes of discussing current events, sports or weather (e.g.: Meet the Press, Larry King Live, The O'Reilly Factor, SportsCenter, Inside the NFL, etc., none of which are eligible.) Note that fake news is not news, even if it is sometimes more informative and insightful than the news.

recurring or single performance

A credited performance by an individual human or musical act in one or more episodes of a series.

Guidelines

Please feel free to propose as many or as few candidates as you like in each category. Feel free to discuss yours or others' proposals as much or as little as you choose. Actual number of votes listed in support of or opposition to does not affect a candidate's ability to move to the next round. All candidates listed here will move on, but the amount of support and opposition can be taken into consideration by voters during the nomination phase.

Please follow the standard format shown below for proposing candidates and link the show titles and names, even if the linked articles are empty or stubs. We must have a series for which each actor is being nominated, so be sure to include one as shown. To add your name in support or opposition simply add a new line with a pound and four tildas after the previous names like this # ~~~~

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Candidates Discussion

Stephen Colbert, The Colbert Report

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1. JCaesar^talk 02:08, 11 March 2009 (EDT)
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Craig Ferguson, The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson

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1. The-jam 18:00, 19 February 2009 (EST)
2. Rvb strongbad 01:13, 20 February 2009 (EST)
3. HuskersRule 23:43, 5 March 2009 (EST)
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Tina Fey, Saturday Night Live

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1. JCaesar^talk 02:08, 11 March 2009 (EDT)
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• In a way, it's ironic that Tina Fey's most famous SNL character was created after she had left the show, even after she returned to host. On both Weekend Update and 30 Rock, Fey wasn't known as a character actress like Amy Poehler or Kristen Wiig. She was essentially playing herself, a personality, more in the vein Jane Curtin often did in the show's early days. But a passing resemblance to Alaska governor and vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin gave Fey an excuse to come back to her old stamping grounds at the real 30 Rockefeller Plaza, and in the process, she became a sort of overnight re-sensation for a woman who'd already won several Emmys. She became Palin in a way few other SNL impressionists had ever done. Not even Darrell Hammond as Bill Clinton or Will Ferrell as George W. Bush so inhabited a character the way Fey did. She also did something no SNL impersonator since Dana Carvey as George Bush, Sr., maybe even Chevy Chase as Gerald Ford had done - her impression became more associated with Palin than Palin herself. Respectable pundits and news reporters have repeated the "I can see Russia from my house" line as though Palin herself said it. (She didn't. It was Fey.) And it's almost impossible to watch Palin's performance at the real vice presidential debate without imagining Fey's wink and firing guns "p-shoo, p-shoo." More than a few comedians and commentators suggested Senator John McCain should have replaced Palin with Fey, because no one, they said, would notice. But they would have. The ersatz Palin was more endearing. -- JCaesar^talk 02:08, 11 March 2009 (EDT)
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Joel McHale, The Soup

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1. Joltman 07:51, 20 February 2009 (EST)
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Jon Stewart, The Daily Show

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1. The-jam 18:00, 19 February 2009 (EST)
2. Davidscarter 18:39, 23 February 2009 (EST)
3. JCaesar^talk 02:08, 11 March 2009 (EDT)
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