{"id":12903,"date":"2011-09-19T14:39:48","date_gmt":"2011-09-19T21:39:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=12903"},"modified":"2011-09-19T14:39:48","modified_gmt":"2011-09-19T21:39:48","slug":"nimoy-emmy-appearance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2011\/09\/nimoy-emmy-appearance\/","title":{"rendered":"Nimoy Emmy Appearance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Star Trek<\/em> fans watching the Emmys last night were treated to a skit in which <strong>Leonard Nimoy<\/strong> appeared alongside <strong>Jane Lynch<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Nimoy took on the role at the last moment after<strong> Alec Baldwin<\/strong> withdrew after a joke of his mocking the <strong>Rupert Murdoch<\/strong> phone scandal was cut from the skit. &#8220;They edited out a line and he asked them to not air the segment,&#8221; a friend of Baldwin&#8217;s explained. &#8220;He didn&#8217;t want to do something that had been edited afterwards because if it&#8217;s comedy and you take out a key line, it just doesn&#8217;t work.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/LeonardNimoy01222010.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-12904\" title=\"LeonardNimoy01222010\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/LeonardNimoy01222010.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>So Nimoy graciously stepped in and the skit was reshot, with Nimoy taking the place of Baldwin, in a short role as the President of Television. &#8220;I&#8217;m firmly convinced that you are the most logical person to host the Emmys this year,&#8221; he told Lynch, whose character in the skit was excited to go out to show everyone &#8220;what we do when we create the magic of TV.&#8221; &#8220;To men, you&#8217;re womanish,&#8221; Nimoy said, explaining why she was the perfect host. &#8220;To women, you&#8217;re mannish.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The skit can be seen <a href=\"http:\/\/www.emmys.com\/jane-lynchs-awesome-2011-emmys-show-opener-online-video\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Star Trek fans watching the Emmys last night were treated to a skit in which&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2413,2421],"tags":[3766,2409],"class_list":["post-12903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cast-crew","category-star-trek-tos","tag-emmys","tag-nimoy"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","newsphere-slider-full":"","newsphere-featured":"","newsphere-medium":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"T&#39;Bonz","author_link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/author\/tbonz\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/cast-crew\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Cast &amp; Crew<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/star-trek-tos\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Star Trek: TOS<\/a>","tag_info":"Star Trek: TOS","comment_count":"2","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12903"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12906,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12903\/revisions\/12906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}