The Emmy Awards show started with a short film featuring Conan O’Brien in a plane crash. The skit was meant to parody “Lost,” but it came on the same weekend as the real plane crash that killed 49 people in Kentucky. The GM for WLEX, the NBC affil in Lexington, says showing the opening sketch was “…somewhere between ignorance and incompetence,” adding he was “horrified” when he watched. Tim Gilbert says he would have not aired the show if he had known about the opening. UPDATE: NBC has apologized for any “unintentional pain” the parody may have caused. “Our hearts and prayers go out to the many families who lost loved ones in the plane crash in Kentucky on Sunday,” NBC said in a statement. “In no way would we ever want to make light of this terrible tragedy. The filmed opening during the Emmy telecast meant to spoof some of television’s most well-known scenes. The timing was unfortunate, and we regret any unintentional pain it may have caused.” VIDEO: The sketch is now posted at YouTube.
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