Also of note, Tom Berenger took home a statue for his work in Hatfield & McCoys, while Tom Bergeron won for his hosting duties on Dancing With The Stars. Truly a great night for performers with easily-confused names.

The rest of the winners are everyone you would expect. And also Jon Cryer. Here is the full list of winners at Sunday’s 64th annual Primetime Emmy Awards presented by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences:

The actor took time to thank his wife as well as his dog sitter, but surprisingly, his speech did not contain any “f*ck yous” directed at kids who used to pick on him in middle-school. I know if I ever ended up on national television, it would turn into an obscenity filled rant directed at all those have wronged me throughout the years. Then again, if I’m ever on national television, it will be for lighting one of the Real Housewives on fire, so maybe it’s for the best I’m only on the Internet.

Here’s a list of the night’s big winners.

Outstanding comedy series: Modern Family
Outstanding drama series: Mad Men
Outstanding miniseries or movie: Downton Abbey
Outstanding lead actress, miniseries or movie: Kate Winslet, Mildred Pierce
Outstanding supporting actor in a miniseries or movie: Guy Pearce, Mildred Pierce
Outstanding directing for a miniseries, movie or dramatic special: Brian Percival, Downton Abbey
Outstanding lead actor in a miniseries or movie: Barry Pepper, The Kennedys
Outstanding supporting actress, miniseries or movie: Maggie Smith, Downton Abbey
Outstanding writing for a miniseries or movie: Julian Fellowes, Downton Abbey
Outstanding lead actor, drama: Kyle Chandler, Friday Night Lights
Outstanding lead actress, drama: Julianna Margulies, The Good Wife
Outstanding supporting actor, drama: Peter Dinklage, Game of Thrones
Outstanding directing, drama: Martin Scorsese, Boardwalk Empire
Outstanding supporting actress, drama: Margo Martindale, Justified
Outstanding writing, drama series: Jason Katims, Friday Night Lights
Outstanding variety, music or comedy series: The Daily Show with Jon Stewart
Outstanding directing for a variety, music or comedy series: Don Roy King, Saturday Night Live (host: Justin Timberlake)
Outstanding writing for a variety, music or comedy series: The Daily Show with Jon Stewart
Outstanding reality competition: The Amazing Race
Outstanding lead actress, comedy: Melissa McCarthy (Mike & Molly)
Outstanding lead actor, comedy series: Jim Parsons, The Big Bang Theory
Outstanding writing for a comedy: Steve Levitan, Jeffrey Richman (“Caught in the Act”), Modern Family
Outstanding director, comedy: Michael Alan Spiller (“Halloween”), Modern Family
Outstanding supporting actor, comedy: Ty Burrell (Modern Family)
Outstanding supporting actress, comedy: Julie Bowen (Modern Family)

Source: Entertainment Weekly

But when I spoke to Dan Harmon and the cast at Comic-Con, the snub didn’t seem to matter. In fact, Harmon claimed some cast members were perversely pleased by the lack of recognition, including comedy legend Chevy Chase.

“It was just a big ‘I told you so,’ Harmon said. “(Chase) called me and said I told you so. He liked it that we didn’t get a nomination.”

“Frankly it didn’t bother me,” Chase added. “I have a lot of Emmys.”

For cast member Yvette Nicole Brown, the lack of a nomination didn’t come across as a snub, but rather a testament to the quality of Community’s competition.

“There’s a lot of shows on the air that are funny,” Brown said. “It’s almost, like…who would you take off the list. It becomes snarky, then.”

“I can take two off,” joked costar Joel McHale, before adding he felt it was the writing team that deserved the most recognition.

“I don’t want to sound more arrogant than normal, but the writing nomination, I thought that would have been great. But we’re not doing this for awards, or anything. I’m thrilled we’re coming back for a third season.”

That sentiment was echoed by producer Anthony Russo, who along with his brother Joe, worked on the highly revered sitcom, Arrested Development.

“The good news is we’re on the air for another season, we’re all able to keep doing what we’re doing, and we’re having great fun and we’ll see what happens this season.”

According to Dan Harmon, viewers can expect a darker tone from season three, which will include that addition of The Wire’s Michael K. Williams. Not many sitcoms would cast an actor best known for playing a shotgun wielding homosexual who makes a living robbing drug dealers. But according to actor Ken Jeong, the chance to work in such a creative, unpredictable environment is its own reward.

“When you’re part of what I honestly consider to be the funniest sitcom right now on television, whether we have nominations or not, we go hom knowing we do good work.”

Added costar Danny Pudi, “As long as we get to laugh at the end of the day and be challenged with crazy, funny, and smart material, I don’t know if we could ask for anything else.”

So, what is to blame for Community’s complete lack of nominations? In my opinion, it’s a bizarre fixation with the show Modern Family on the part of the nominators.

To be fair, given the nature of the Emmys, there will always be shows that are left out. After all, there are only so many spots to fill. If every deserving program was nominated, the nominations themselves would be meaningless. Take the Oscars. Being nominated for Best Picture used to mean something. But for the past few years, the Academy expanded the nominations to include 10 films, and the entire process become a joke, the punch line being that at least half of the nominees have absolutely no shot at winning. But with the Emmys, the old cliché stands, and it is still an honor to be nominated. That’s what makes Community’s absence so glaring.

How does such an innovative, ground breaking show get snubbed on so many different levels? More importantly, how is it that not one member of its talented ensemble cast received a nomination in the supporting actor category? Well, of the 12 available supporting actor nominations (six male, and six female), two went to cast members of Glee, and six went to the cast of Modern Family. When two-thirds of the available nominations are monopolized by two shows, with half going to one show in particular, there’s a problem. Throw in a few ridiculous pity nominations for Jon Cryer (he had to deal with Charlie Sheen) and Betty White (ha, the old lady made a sex joke), and you’re left with only two available spots for all the other shows on television, both of which can only be given to women. Given these circumstances, it’s easy to see how Community was left out.

Modern Family isn’t a bad show. In fact, it’s a great show, and it has a very strong cast. But the idea that almost every adult member of that cast should be up for an Emmy is ludicrous. Yes, it’s hard to pick and choose, but that’s the whole point of an award show. Does Sofia Vergara’s exaggerated broken-English really warrant a nomination over the performances of Gillian Jacobs, Alison Brie, and Yvette Nicole Brown? Does Eric Stonestreet’s over-the-top portrayal of a gay character really deserve a spot over Donald Glover and Danny Pudi, both of whom play hilarious characters that manage to defy traditional stereotypes? More importantly, do the people who nominate these shows actually watch anything other than Modern Family and Glee?

Of course, Community was overlooked in other categories as well. If ever there was a need for a laugh track, it was when Big Bang Theory was announced as a nominee for best comedy. And to be fair, there were some pleasant surprises. Louie C.K. is up for best actor. That in itself is a joke, but it’s nice to see such a talented guy getting the acknowledgment he deserves, even if it is in the wrong category. It was also nice to see that Martha Plimpton from Raising Hope and Amy Poehler from Parks & Recreation both ended up with noms, as did Peter Dinklage from Game of Thrones. But with one of the best shows in recent memory sitting on the sidelines, even these deserving nominations rang hallow.

Again, I’m not bashing Modern Family or its cast, and I’m not even saying that Community is a better show (I happen to think it is, but we’re talking about nominations, so the point it irrelevant). Wha I am saying is that allowing one show to dominate the nomination process is a sure fire way to alienate a lot of talented, deserving artists. It’s also a surefire way to make the Emmys seem even more out of touch and irrelevant than they are.

“I have Ray Romano to thank, for surrounding himself with better actors.”

- Andre Braugher, Men of a Certain Age

“I honestly feel like this year is my year. The episode ‘The Suitcase’ allowed me to showcase a side of me the audience hadn’t previously witnessed. And it has nothing to do with that fact the Bryan Cranston was ineligible this time around.”

- Jon Hamm, Mad Men

“I’m grateful that Jon Hamm finally has a chance to win Best Actor. My mantel doesn’t have room for another accolade.”

- Bryan Cranston, three-time Emmy winner for Breaking Bad

“The Academy’s oversight only further proliferates the immutable truth that intelligent comedic tete-a-tete can only delve so far into esoteric terrain before pedestrian tolerance levels become so over exerted that they crumble. How many times do I have to make Alison and Gillian make-out before you lavish me with awards?”

- Dan Harmon, creator of Community

“I appreciate the Academy’s willingness to not watch the last season of’Dexter‘.”

- Michael C. Hall, Dexter

“I just can’t wait for the host to make a joke about my height. The punchline will be me banging his wife.”

- Peter Dinklage, Game of Thrones

“If I win, I’m giving the award to Nick Offerman’s mustache.”

- Amy Poehler, Parks and Recreation

“For the love of God, please just let me go back home to my family in England already. I mean, you’re too kind.”

- Hugh Laurie, House

“Ya’ll, seriously? Seriously, ya’ll? Ya’ll can’t be serious. …Seriously, ya’ll?”

- Connie Britton, Friday Night Lights

“The Academy is a bunch of c*nts.”

- Kurt Sutter, creator of Sons of Anarchy

But if nothing else, seeing these ads made me wonder how the networks decide which shows to promote. With the abundance of crap on television, there must be quite a deliberation process. With that in mind, I set to work harassing my dozens of insider contacts, and was given access to the following rejected ‘For Your Emmy Consideration’ ads. I hope you find them as insightful as I have.

“The Hasselhoffs”

_{And the big winners are…}

“Sitcom” and “Drama” ruled the 2010 Emmys, with “Sitcom” taking home the Emmy for best comedy series, while “Drama” took home the Emmy for best drama.

The night’s other big winners included actor, who won an Emmy for his role in “Drama,” and actress, who took home the award for best actress in a comedy series.

Highlights from the show included new Conan performing pointless skits, and singer singing a melodramatic song. (Collider)

See a list of all the Emmy winners I copied from another website after the jump.

SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A MINISERIES OR TV MOVIE
Julia Ormond – “Temple Grandin”

SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A MINISERIES OR TV MOVIE
David Strathairn – “Temple Grandin”

LEAD ACTRESS IN A MINISERIES OR TV MOVIE
Claire Danes – “Temple Grandin”

LEAD ACTOR IN A MINISERIES OR TV MOVIE
Al Pacino – “You Don’t Know Jack”

GUEST ACTOR IN A COMEDY SERIES
Neil Patrick Harris – “Glee”

GUEST ACTRESS IN A COMEDY SERIES
Betty White – “Saturday Night Live”

GUEST ACTOR IN A DRAMA SERIES
John Lithgow – “Dexter”

GUEST ACTRESS IN A DRAMA SERIES
Ann Margaret – “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit”

SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A COMEDY
Eric Stonestreet – “Modern Family”

SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A COMEDY
Jane Lynch – “Glee”

SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A DRAMA
Archie Panjabi – “The Good Wife”

SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A DRAMA
Aaro Paul – “Breaking Bad”

LEAD ACTOR IN A COMEDY
Jim Parsons – “Big Bang Theory”

LEAD ACTRESS IN A COMEDY
Edie Falco – “Nurse Jackie”

LEAD ACTOR IN A DRAMA
Bryan Cranston – “Breaking Bad”

LEAD ACTRESS IN A DRAMA
Kyra Sedgwick – “The Closer”

VARIETY, MUSIC OR COMEDY SERIES
“The Daily Show with Jon Stewart”

OUTSTANDING REALITY PROGRAM
“Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution”

OUTSTANDING REALITY-COMPETITION PROGRAM
“Top Chef”

OUTSTANDING MINISERIES
“The Pacific”

OUTSTANDING TV MOVIE
“Temple Grandin”

OUTSTANDING DRAMA
“Mad Men”

OUTSTANDING COMEDY
“Modern Family”