“This is why people don’t do this,” Thomas Lennon sighed, about halfway through the 71st annual Primetime Emmy Awards telecast. “Because it sucks.” Somehow, Lennon—the comedian, writer and Reno 911! star who’d been enlisted to provide live voiceover commentary on the ceremony—wasn’t even the first entertainer to use the word “sucks” to describe the Emmys on the Emmys.