• EW.com/Inside TV, Tuesday, September 18, 2012 2:40 PM

Yes, the Creative Arts Emmys have been given out (for the record, HBO won 17 of them and CBS 13), but now comes the big show, the Primetime Emmys, Sept. 23 on ABC.  

How big?  Well, the Emmys apparently reduce even the biggest TV stars to bad cases of pre-show jitters.  In The Huffington Post, Sandy Cohen runs down how some of these household names cope (“Parks and Recreation”’s Amy Poehler, for example, recommends baby aspirin and sangria, while “New Girl”’s Zooey Deschanel prefers a glass of water and a deep breath.) 

So no wonder JAN (Just Act Naturally) has built a whole business just coaching actors for their Emmy Awards moments. Well, JAN is actually Parker Posey in a tour-de-force satiric video, “Emmy Speech Master Class,” posted on YouTube by the Primetime Emmy folks themselves and happily embedded by Tara Fowler on Inside TV. As one satisfied student proclaims, “All I have to do is book a role on TV, get nominated and win, and I’m ready.”  Sure beats the flask of vodka and Quaalude route preferred by “Modern Family”’s Jesse Tyler Ferguson.

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