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Betty White, Neil Patrick Harris win Emmys

Betty White won the "Outsanding Guest Actress" Emmy at the Creative Arts Awards Emmy Awards today in Los Angeles.

White won for her work hosting "Saturday Night Live" earlier this year. She was up against Kristin Chenoweth ("Glee"), Jane Lynch ("Two and a Half Men"), Christine Baranski ("The Big Bang Theory"), Elaine Stritch ("30 Rock") and Kathryn Joosten ("Desperate Housewives").

Neil Patrick Harris won two Emmys tonight, for his guest spot on "Glee" and for hosting the Tony Awards Show. These are his first Emmys. He's also nominated for his role on "How I Met Your Mother," but that award will be handed out at next week's main Emmy Awards show.

John Lithgow also won for his role as the Trinity killer on Showtime's "Dexter."

The Creative Arts Emmys show is not televised (an edited version will air later). You can check out all of the winners at The Wrap website.

ABC's cancelled "Pushing Daisies" wins 3 Emmys

ABC's critically acclaimed (and criminally cancelled) "Pushing Daisies" won three awards this weekend at the Creative Arts Emmy Awards. Figures.

Also, Tina Fey won an award for her portrayal of former Governor Sarah Palin on "Saturday Night Live," and Justin Timberlake was the first SNL host to win a guest actor in a comedy series award.

The show's host, Kathy Griffin, who has nicknamed the event "The Schmemmies," was nominated for her Bravo reality show, "My Life on the D-List." Griffin has won in this category for the past two years, but lost out this time to A&E's "Intervention."

Other big winners came from HBO, PBS, and NBC. You can read more about the full list of winners, and Griffin's over-the-top hosting shenanigans. 

The show will air on E! on September 18.

Neil Patrick Harris and Kathy Griffin both host Emmy shows

We all know by now that the incomparable Neil Patrick Harris was (finally) officially named as the host for 61st annual Emmy Awards Show, but even more interesting is that Bravo reality star (and actual Emmy winner) Kathy Griffin is now slated to host the somewhat less prestigious Schmemmy Awards.

Griffin will host the Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards on September 12, a show she has often called as "The Schmemmys." The Schmemmys take place a week before the "real" Emmys, and are not aired live (an edited version of the show will air later in September on E!). Griffin has a controversial history with Emmy broadcasts, so that makes this an interesting, and potentially exciting, choice.

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