Emmys redux: Surprise winners go home with the gold

The Emmys aired Sunday night and, while it was a mostly boring ceremony, there were a few surprise wins that put a smile on my face: Margo Martindale (best supporting actress in a drama, "Justified"), Kyle Chandler (best actor in a drama, "Friday Night Lights") and Peter Dinklage (best supporting actor in a drama, "Game of Thrones").

"Modern Family’s" Dunphys — Julie Bowen and Ty Burrell — also won for supporting actress and actor in a comedy, and Burrell’s speech was one of the night’s funniest.

I also enjoyed host Jane Lynch, who was funny without trying too hard.

Here are some of my very own Emmy awards:

Who should’ve won: Steve Carell was robbed, y’all. I don’t understand how that man has never won an Emmy for "The Office," and now he never can. Not cool. Not cool, at all.

And I love "Modern Family," but "Parks and Recreation" really deserved to win best comedy. It’s the funniest show on television.

Best moment: When the comedy actress nominees — Amy Poehler, Tina Fey, Martha Plimpton, Melissa McCarthy, Edie Falco and Laura Linney — went all beauty pageant on us, running up on stage when their names were called and standing together, holding hands, until McCarthy was revealed as the winner.

According to various reports, Poehler and Plimpton came up with the gag over lunch earlier in the week, which makes me love them even more than I already did.

I should be angrier that Poehler didn’t win, but I like "Mike & Molly" star McCarthy so much that I’m just not. Plus, she and Poehler cracked me up later on when they presented an award together (they were also the Best Presenters of the night, with Jimmy Fallon and Jimmy Kimmel as a close second).

Let’s cast those two together in something — anything — soon.

Funniest sketch: A "new" version of "The Office," in which characters from other series like "Breaking Bad," "Game of Thrones" and "Parks and Recreation" popped up at Dunder Mifflin.

Most awkward moment: Charlie Sheen’s appearance. His "apology" couldn’t have been less sincere, and I think he thinks we care about his opinion more than we actually do (which is to say not at all). Who invited him anyway?

Most awkward moment, runner up: The Lonely Island performance. It should have been so much funnier, but, other than Michael Bolton cracking me up as a wannabe Jack Sparrow (pirate costume and all), it fell flat.

Host Jane Lynch’s best one-liners: "A lot of people are curious why I’m a lesbian. Ladies and gentleman, the cast of ‘Entourage’" and "Katie Holmes is in the house as well. I’d love to say something funny about her, but I’m afraid of her husband."

Lynch’s funniest industry joke: "There are so many movie stars doing TV now that TV stars have been forced into providing voices for video games. And those very same video games are then turned into movies, starring the very people who put the TV stars out of work in the first place. Hakuna matata, my friends. Circle of life."

Best dressed: Ladies in red Kate Winslet, Sofia Vergara, Nina Dobrev and Lea Michele, plus "Glee" star Heather Morris’ blue, ruffled gown, all wowed.

Worst dressed: Gwyneth Paltrow’s belly-baring, two-piece number was not flattering at all. What was she thinking?