Jimmy Fallon and the Emmys were born to have fun

There was a spring in the step of the 62nd Emmys that's been missing from awards shows so generally and for so long that some of us had begun to believe it had been permanently unsprung. Ambitious, energetically hilarious, and, most important, almost seamlessly constructed, this year's telecast actually did what the Emmys are supposed to do — celebrate television.

By Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times Television Critic

August 30, 2010