NBC Photo: Jessica MiglioSarah Silverman, hello. America Ferrera, goodbye. Tina Fey, is that you again?
There was modest turnover today in Emmys' comedy acting races, with Silverman scoring her first Lead Actress in a Comedy Series nomination for her subversively innocent act in The Sarah Silverman Program.
Silverman's competition includes fellow newcomer Toni Collette (United States of Tara). Mostly, though, she'll contend with holdovers: Samantha Who?'s Christina Applegate, The New Adventures of Old Christine's Julia Louis-Dreyfus, 30 Rock's Tina Fey, the reigning winner, and Weeds' Mary-Louise Parker.
The only actress who didn't make it back into the circle from last year was Ferrera, who seemed to go down with Ugly Betty's flagging ratings ship. (Not that starring on a canceled series, a la Samantha Who?, nixed Applegate's chances.)
The Lead Actor in a Comedy Series is a mix of the old (30 Rock's Alec Baldwin, The Office's Steve Carell, Monk's Tony Shalhoub, Two and a Half Men's Charlie Sheen) and the who-knew-Emmy-voters-knew-these guys (The Big Bang Theory's Jim Parsons and Flight of the Conchords' Jemaine Clement). Baldwin is the defending champ.
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