The "59th Primetime Emmy Awards" are now in the books. This is the first time in my life I have ever advocated burning books. From a forgettable hosting stint by Ryan Seacrest to awards that made as much as scene as CBS executives thinking "Kid Nation" will be a hit, this was an Emmys to pretend never happened.

Maybe it was a dream. Please someone wake me up. "30 Rock" could not have been named best comedy. Alec Baldwin is the only funny part of the show and he did not win. The win by NBC's "30 Rock" makes the dream about being in front of a class, naked and without your homework seem rather tame.

If only that was the only bad moment.

Let's start with Seacrest. Simon Cowell needed to show up to tell the Emmy host that "There are parasites that are better hosts than you. Your attempts at comedy make tragedy look funny." Seacrest joked that the Shrine Auditorium was filled with 6,000 people who all passed on hosting. Wasn't there a homeless man outside the Los Angeles facility who could have taken the job? He would have been better.

Ray Romano has lost his mind in the two years he has been off the air. The "Everybody Loves Raymond" star offered such a foul joke during the early moments of the show, the audio vanished for a few moments. Sadly, it came back. Later Romano's former co-star Brad Garrett took the stage to make the joke that he would be and his "'Til Death" co-star Joely Fisher would star in "Bury My Head Between Your Knees." Then they traded jokes about her breasts. So much for paying respect to actors.

The only good thing about the show being held in a theater-in-the-round setting was that there was no place to hide a firing squad. Some of the comedy bits would have been killed to put viewers out of their misery.

All of the talk in the Fox pre-Emmy show, a program that was a technical nightmare, was that Britney Spears was to make an appearance. She was to apologize for her painfully bad performance at the "Video Music Awards." You know an awards show has reached an all-time low when an appearance by Spears would have raised the bar.