Last evening marked the 59th Annual Emmy Awards (which I've heard were unyieldingly boring). Although they remain one of the least merit-based awards in history, the Emmys are one of the sharpest, and that should count for something.

After the jump, the gowns! Oh, the gowns!

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Despite all reason, the skit-cum-YouTube sensation "Dick in a Box" was nominated for an Emmy award. Let's hope it loses and is quickly forgotten so that those of us who didn't really see the hilarity in the first place won't once again be subjected to omnipresent, amateur renditions by drunk bar heros with very little imagination.

Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel after the jump. Dick's in the pants.

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• Christina Aguilera looks hot in The Advocate magazine. [HotMommaDrama]

• Tara Reid and her extensions of death are D-Nied entrance to Hyde. It's like a car wreck you can't stop watching. [TMZ]

• Matthew Broderick injured himself falling off a horse. And no, this is not a story about his sex life with Sarah Jessica Parker. [DListed]

• Maggie Gyllenhaal loves herself some Ben Stiller. [Junkiness]

• As much as women would like Brad Pitt to be more involved in their Morning After Pill rituals, he's gonna have to pass on that. [A Socialite's Life]

• After the party (Emmy Awards) were the after parties. [PopSugar]

• Speaking of the Emmys, Steve Carrell was sweating like a 40-year-old virgin about to lose it. [BWE]

• Want to feel a little better about that post-weekend booze bloat? Here are some renditions of celebs plus some serious lbs. [Velvet Hot Tub]

As Carol Burnett once said, “Comedy is tragedy plus time.” Unfortunately for the producers of the Emmy Awards last night, there wasn't so much "time" between news of the plane crash in Kentucky and the opening sketch of the awards, which, awkwardly, opened with Conan O'Brien being involved in, you guessed it, a plane crash. Big sib Jossip caught this lovely clip of video so you can see for yourself the cringe-worthy timing.

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Yeah, yeah, you can look at all the red carpet pictures you want from last night's Emmy Awards, but we all know the most thrilling part of the evening was Mindy Kaling's nip-slip just as she got to the stage to celebrate The Office winning for Best Comedy Series. Wheee, hooray for DVR and the ability to pause television (and perpetuate what was probably Mindy's most embarrassing moment).

And now, back to the red carpet. Women looking pretty (and BJ Novak, also from The Officem who I'm including because we went to high school together).

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