If only audience member Jack Kevorkian had stepped in to put it out of the 62nd annual Emmy Awards misery.

Of course, the Emmys are not the Grammys, with hours of extravagant performances, or the Oscars, with nominated songs and big dance numbers and armies of writers, or the Tonys, with nominees taking the stage to show you why they’re there.

The Emmys are more of a news story than a television show, with more than two dozen awards crammed into three commercial-laden hours, and not much room for anything else.

The notable exception, in this case? An extravagant opening number in which Jimmy Fallon managed the peppiest version of “Born to Run” in history, while the likes of...

Whether it was Betty White’s sex drive, announcers with corny one-liners, or gay jokes that wouldn’t make an eighth grader chuckle, TheWrap calls out the worst moments of TV’s big night.

1) All Those Gay Jokes: Neil Patrick Harris, Lauren Graham and even the reliably funny Stewie from “Family Guy” all saw their gay jokes land with a thud. Perhaps that’s because the punch lines mostly consisted of calling another, presumably heterosexual actor, gay (insert Jimmy Fallon, Matthew Perry).

2) Kim Kardashian, Singer: The reality show performer/sex tape star showed off her crooning chops and they were, well, lacking. Teaming up for a duet...

It was two steps forward, one step back.

At the Emmys, that’s about the best you can hope for.

The 62nd Annual Primetime Emmy Awards showed off a few fresh faces, and a show known for its stultifying winning streaks received a couple of shots of adrenaline courtesy of newcomers like “Modern Family” and “Glee.”

In fact, the show started out with four consecutive wins for those freshman series, two each, followed by first-time winner Jim Parsons for “The Big Bang Theory.”

It wasn’t until 45 minutes into the show that a past winner picked up a statuette – and that was Edie Falco, who’d won three times in the drama category...