As we all know, on How I Met Your Mother on Monday night, Britney Spears managed to get through about 10 lines without crying or showing anyone her vagina.
So it goes without saying that Britney Spears will probably get nominated for an Emmy for it. Seriously.
Since the Britney Spears episode got How I Met Your Mother its highest-ever ratings, there's now a bundle of genuine speculation that Britney Spears will snag an Emmy nomination for it. Which we're fine with, so long as the Emmys open a new category entitled Best Transparent Stunt Casting Of A Mentally Ill Celebrity To Revive A Mostly Rubbish Sitcom. And even then it'll be a toss-up between Britney and Franz Kafka's rib-tickling turn on According To Jim.
There's something really odd about the way that self-destructive celebrities are given awards. What's that? Amy Winehouse has been taped smoking crack a couple of months after she almost died from a drug overdose? Quick, someone give her a Grammy. What's that? Naomi Campbell has punched a boat to splinters with her fists? Quick, someone give her a, um, actually, Naomi Campbell doesn't really win awards, does she? Bad example, let's move on.
And now it looks like history might just repeat itself. A couple of months ago, the only awards that Britney Spears could have possibly won were the Most Disturbing Dance Teacher award and a prize for being the only person in history who does a British accent worse than Don Cheadle. But now? Now Britney Spears has been on a mediocre sitcom for about 15 seconds, so it's only right she should get an Emmy for it.
Even though the cast of How I Met Your Mother would only admit to being 'quite impressed' with Britney Spears' cameo on Monday's show, by and large TV critics have fallen over themselves to praise Britney's performance in what we can only assume to be a heavy-handed overcompensation for the kicking she gets from other parts of the media. And, yes, that means there's Emmy talk. The Los Angeles Times reports:
Emmy voters love to hail stunt casting in those guest-acting categories. Often when big-name stars condescend to visit the boob tube, they get rewarded with nominations just, so it seems, for showing up — like Brad Pitt did when he accepted an invite for turkey dinner on "Friends"… Now consider all of the people who tuned in to see Britney Spears on "How I Met Your Mother" last night: 10.6 million. That's the highest viewership ever for the CBS sitcom. Audience size matters when you weigh who might get nominated for an Emmy because that first round of voting is determined by a popular vote of TV academy members.
Can Britney Spears really win an Emmy for How I Met Your Mother? Stranger things have happened, and who knows what'll happen if Britney gets an accolade for her work, rather than for shaving her head and getting her chuff out. Plus, if an Emmy for Britney Spears means that House doesn't win quite as many this year, then we're all for it.
But let's not forget that this year's Emmy Awards don't take place until September. Was Britney Spears' fleeting appearance on How I Met Your Mother memorable enough to keep her in voters' minds until then? Worse still, what if Britney Spears gets her act together between now and September? The whole mental illness thing is Britney's USP as far as the Emmys go. If she wants to stand any chance of winning this award, Britney had better go out and do something hopelessly batshit right now. Right now. Batshit!
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Alexis says
i think it’s great that britney is making a turnaround. appearing on a sitcom and doing a charity auction of her clothes for the environment on SeenON.com is a great way for her to finally show us that she can be mature and professional.