Host Jimmy Fallon adds slushees and Twitter to the awards-show mix. By Mawuse Ziegbe Jimmy Fallon onstage at the 62nd annual Primetime Emmy Awards Photo: Kevin Winter/ Getty Images The 62nd Primetime Emmy Awards kicked off not with a bang, but with a splash. Host Jimmy Fallon corralled the cast of the Emmy Award-nominated hit “Glee” for a cold open straight out of McKinley High. Enlisting stars like Jon Hamm, Tina Fey and Betty White, while dodging an overeager Kate Gosselin, the gang jumped around until Jane Lynch doused Fallon and Fey with a candy-colored slushee, demanding to be added to the song-and-dance number. Then things really got poppin’. Fallon punched up the Emmys telecast with digital and musical touches similar to those he often uses on “Late Night With Jimmy Fallon.” He didn’t slow-jam any of the categories, but the comedian did strap on an acoustic guitar to introduce sizzle reels recapping the year in television. A few lucky Emmy fans on Twitter got some love when Fallon wove their comments into his intro for presenters like Sofia Vergara, Tina Fey and Jim Parsons. Jim Parsons from “The Big Bang Theory” edged out favored stars like Steve Carell, Tony Shalhoub and Alec Baldwin for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series. In addition to new music and technology, new faces dominated the evening, as several Emmy victors took home hardware for the first time. Claire Danes from “Temple Grandin,” Eric Stonestreet from “Modern Family,” “Glee” scene-stealer Lynch , Archie Panjabi from “The Good Wife” and Aaron Paul from “Breaking Bad” all scored their first trophies. “Glee” golden boy Ryan Murphy also snagged his first Emmy for Directing for a Comedy Series for the pilot of the Fox hit. Although low on nutty, unscripted live-television moments, the telecast delivered send-ups of some of television’s biggest hits. In one clip, the cast of the Outstanding Comedy Series “Modern Family” endures inane suggestions about how to improve the show. Ideas included teaming up with animated potty mouth Stewie from “Family Guy,” shooting the show in 3-D and adding the dreamy George Clooney, who also received the night’s Bob Hope Humanitarian Award, to the mix. Fallon also kept the tone light with a tribute to shows we lost over the past year. Manning a pink piano and sporting rose-colored glasses,
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