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My top 3 Primetime Emmy Award Winners for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series in television history who didn't win the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Television Series Musical or Comedy come from three decades: the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s. These top 3 Primetime Emmy Award Winners for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series in television history who didn't win the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Television Series Musical or Comedy include a grouch, a recovering gambling addict, and a shallow football coach. My top 3 Primetime Emmy Award Winners for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series in television history who didn't win the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Television Series Musical or Comedy are listed in order of their wins. Do you like my choices of these winners? They certainly stand out for me!

Top 3 Primetime Emmy Award Winners for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series in Television History Who Didn't Win the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Television Series Musical or Comedy Selection Number 1: Jack Albertson as Ed Brown in Chico and the Man (1976). Henry Winkler won the Golden Globe Award for Happy Days.

My family really enjoyed watching this program, and it was definitely one of my favorite shows when Freddie Prinze was on. The show was really helped by the part Jack Albertson played as the grouchy garage owner in East Los Angeles. He really made up a great television duo with Freddie Prinze, who played Chico Rodriguez. I recall feeling really terrible when no more Chico and the Man shows were airing without Freddie Prinze because of his "accidental shooting due to the influence of Quaaludes" in early 1977, according to his biography at Wikipedia. His death had initially had been ruled a suicide.

It's one of the first show business deaths (including television history) that affected me emotionally. I had a hard time understanding why a tv star had such a troubled life off the set and died so young. Here's the theme to Chico and the Man on YouTube which I've always found really touching.

Top 3 Primetime Emmy Award Winners for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series in Television History Who Didn't Win the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Television Series Musical or Comedy Selection Number 2: Judd Hirsch as Alex Rieger in Taxi (1981). Alan Alda won the Golden Globe Award for M*A*S*H.

Judd Hirsch as cab driver Alex Rieger was the straight man who helped keep the gang at the Sunshine Cab Company from getting too far off the path of life. Taxi was a real down to earth blue collar series that had a really riveting opening theme which you can watch here at YouTube. It seemed like his life was pretty together compared to the other characters on the show, especially compared to the conniving and skuzzy dispatcher Louie De Palma (played by Danny DeVito) and the spaced-out wacko Reverend Jim Ignatowski (played by Christopher Lloyd). But his life was far from perfect, especially since he was a once an a gambling addict and he didn't seem to want to really better himself career-wise. Judd Hirsch deserves to be one of the Primetime Emmy Award Winners since he's a quality actor!

Top 3 Primetime Emmy Award Winners for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series in Television History Who Didn't Win the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Television Series Musical or Comedy Selection Number 3: Craig T. Nelson as Coach Hayden Fox in Coach (1992). John Goodman won the Golden Globe Award for Rosanne.

I enjoyed watching the Minnesota State University Screaming Eagles head football coach constantly act up via his explosive voice inflection and strange body movements when he got stressed out, mad, or very anxious, including during his frequent romantic spats with girlfriend and then wife Christine (Shelley Fabares).

Frankly, I don't know exactly why I liked watching this show because Hayden Fox was often a shallow "Homer Simpson" type of man that was the least in touch with his inner being as any character in television history other than Archie Bunker. Maybe it's because he was kept in line by Christine, who helped him to grow somewhat over the years like good ol' Archie did as time passed. And since I like sports, I guess the themes around football and the team helped pique my interest in Coach, too.

Online sources for my top 3 Primetime Emmy Award Winners for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series in Television History who didn't win the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Television Series Musical or Comedy article:

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor - Comedy Series: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primetime_Emmy_Award_for_Outstanding_Lead_Actor_-_Comedy_Series, Wikipedia

Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Television Series Musical or Comedy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Globe_Award_for_Best_Performance_by_an_Actor_In_A_Television_Series_-_Musical_Or_Comedy, Wikipedia

Freddie Prinze: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freddie_Prinze, Wikipedia

It's quite sad to think that despite the fact Jennifer Aniston starred in one of the best comedies of the last 20 years, Office Space, she couldn't avoid taking on one of the worst-looking comedies of the past 20 years with The Bounty Hunter. But now it looks like she's ready to redeem herself as THR and Deadline have news on two new comedies for Aniston to lend her talents to. The first will see her return to the workplace comedy as she takes on a role in the Seth Gordon (Four Christmases) directed comedy Horrible Bosses, while the second, Wanderlust, will see her paired with Paul Rudd in a new romantic comedy from Judd Apatow.

Though we just learned yesterday that Colin Farrell would also be stepping up as one of the titular hated supervisors in the dark comedy Horrible Bosses, we didn't know that there were still two more bosses to be cast as the targets of three disgruntled employees who plot to kill them. Though we'd heard that Paul Rudd was circling a role in the comedy, THR makes no mention of his casting in this recent report saying Jason Bateman and Charlie Day are also negotiating beside Aniston to join the cast. Aniston would be playing one of the horrible bosses while Bateman and Day would be two of the other three frustrated employees.

Personally, I'm hoping that Paul Rudd is still in the running for one of the remaining parts whether its one of the bosses or murder plotting employees (he probably fits the latter better than the former), but since one of the other potential projects on his plate also involved dark comedy with a murder plot, maybe he's opted out of this one. Though Gordon has a lot to make up for after directing the disastrous holiday comedy Four Christmases, this cast is sounding like quite the convincing point to see the flick.

So although we're not sure if Rudd will be joining Jennifer Aniston in the growing cast of Horrible Bosses, it looks like the two do have another project together as Deadline reports the duo have signed on for a new comedy from "The State" comedians David Wain and Ken Marino and producer Judd Apatow. The duo previously brought us the hilarious Role Models (which Wain also directed and Rudd co-wrote), and will now bring us Wanderlust, the story of a married couple trying to escape the city life for a counterculture existence. Though the premise sounds recycled, Wain, Marino and Apatow haven't steered me wrong yet.

One thing's for sure, either of the two new studio comedies that Aniston has boarded will be heaps funnier on every level than the poor excuse for a comedy that was The Bounty Hunter. I shudder just thinking about how many times I had to endure that trailer in theaters earlier this year. And I don't know about you guys, but Role Models turned out to be one of my favorite comedies of 2008 despite my previous worries of Seann William Scott's presence jinxing the comedy (before then he was flopping left and right with flicks like Mr. Woodcock and The Dukes of Hazzard). Anyway, we'll be keeping our eyes on each project as they develop, so stay tuned for more casting updates! Which one of these Aniston comedies sounds better?

Funny Girl: Jennifer Aniston, who has the comedy The Switch out this summer, has joined two high-profile upcoming studio films. Aniston has signed on to star in Wanderlust opposite Paul Rudd in a comedy written by David Wain (Role Models) and produced by Judd Apatow, in which Aniston and Rudd will play a couple who head to a commune after losing all of their money. And she has also been added to the cast of Seth Gordon’s workplace comedy Horrible Bosses, in which she will play an “aggressive dentist,” one of the three titular awful bosses (Colin Farrell will play one of the other two top dogs). Aniston's Switch co-star Jason Bateman and Charlie Day (It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia) are in negotiations to play disgruntled employees in the long-gestating project. Get ready for the inevitable "Is Aniston basing evil boss character on Jolie?" Us Weekly headline. [Variety, Deadline]

Couching Tiger: Brad Pitt will star in The Tiger, a Darren Aronofsky–directed drama written by Guillermo Arriaga (Babel). The script is based on an upcoming book by John Vaillant that follows an animal activist who must protect a small Siberian town when it is attacked by a tiger. Couldn't let Jen have just one day of headlines all to herself, could ya, Brad?

Unmade in Manhattan: Colin Farrell and Marion Cotillard will star in David Cronenberg’s Cosmopolis, an adaptation of Don DeLillo’s novel. The thriller tracks a multimillionaire on a 24-hour "odyssey" across Manhattan. Farrell will play an asset manager who loses all of his money in a single day, while Cotillard will play his wife. Presumably Farrell's dramatic loss occurs for reasons more cinematic than a typo.

Bomer Out: Dave Annable (Brothers and Sisters) is in negotiations to replace Matt Bomer (White Collar) in the Anna Faris romantic comedy What’s Your Number? Bomer, who was to play Faris’s dream guy in the film, had to pull out for scheduling reasons. Chris Evans, Zachary Quinto, and Joel McHale will play Faris’s exes. To be considered more desirable than Captain America, Spock, and Jeff Winger is really quite a feat.

B. Plus: Audrey Tautou will star in Therese B., an adaptation of François Mauriac’s novel, which will be directed by Claude Miller. The film, set in the twenties, centers on Therese Desqueyroux, a “free-spirited but unhappily married woman” who tries to free herself “from social pressures and the boredom of suburban life.” Apparently her first idea was changing her annoying last name to a way more fun initial.

House Horror: Grindstone, a division of Lionsgate, has picked up the rights to distribute Open House, starring Anna Paquin, Stephen Moyer, and Rachel Blanchard. The film is directed by Paquin’s brother, Andrew Paquin, and centers on a woman (Blanchard) who is kidnapped and held captive in her own home by “two sociopaths during an open-house event.” Don't fret: Sookie and Bill aren't playing the two crazy sociopaths.

By the Law: John Grisham’s The Firm may become a TV series close to twenty years after the novel was released, as a spec pilot script by Lukas Reiter is circulating among networks including FX, TNT, and A&E, as well as NBC and Fox. Deadline says there is “already interest from at least one cable net.” If FX takes this and ditches Damages, that would be tragic.

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