In Hollywood, after they review something–there are the “notes”. Or better put, suggestions on how things should be changed or improved. Sometimes “the notes” are constructive, sometimes just petty. The best thing folks working on a movie or television show can hear from the big execs is “we have no notes.” Which almost never happens.

Hey Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. Here’s a note. Don’t have anyone be the host of the EMMYs telecast anymore. That’s right, just don’t do it. Don’t have the usual suspects, because you won’t let them be funny or political enough to be funny. Don’t do the stupid stuff anymore with five reality hosts, because that was just tedious.

No host. Just go with what worked really well this past Sunday night. Just go with that nice voice that introduced the presenters and kept things moving right along.

The voice was that of Joe Cipriano, native of nearby Waterbury, Connecticut and one of the great voiceover talents working today. You’ve heard Joe as the voice of Fox or “Deal or No Deal”, to name a couple of his big name clients. At the EMMYs, he was great doing the intros, reading the lists of nominees and even telling us who was sponsoring “The 60th Annual EMMY Awards.”

(And all this from a guy whose career started when he got a job at a local radio station here in Connecticut at the age of 17. A man right after my own heart on how to start a career in broadcasting.)

With no need to try to be funny or clever, he was just solid and smooth. And damn if the thing didn’t end right on time. Even if most of America was watching the NFL game, the Yankees’ last game at the stadium in the Bronx or a new episode of “Entourage”. Oh well.

I’m sure Joe doesn’t need the endorsement of this lone EMMYs telecast watcher. But for my money, he should get the job as the “voice from behind the curtain” for as long as he wants.

That’s my note on the EMMYs.