Jeff Conaway Omitted From Emmy 'In Memoriam' Tribute

Please, nobody say another word Jon Hamm, Steve Carell or anybody else that one might feel the 63rd Annual Emmy voters "snubbed" last night.

Once more, awards show producers screwed up the worst thing that the various ceremonies screw up almost every year: leaving some curiously absent from "In Memoriam" tributes.

The most conspicuous omission? As E! Online pointed out today, "Taxi" co-star Jeff Conaway, who passed away this past May. Conaway, who battled drug and alcohol addiction most of his adult life, was taken off life support following a two-week coma he slipped into after being found unconscious in his home. He was 60 years old.

If Conaway was indeed rolling his eyes from the best seats in the house, he wasn't alone. The montage also left out "The Cosby Show" alum Clarice Taylor and "Seinfeld" recurring player Len Lesser. Taylor, who played Cliff Huxtable's Grandma Anna Huxtable, also passed away this May at the age of 93 and Lesser, who played Jerry's colorful Uncle Leo, passed away at the age of 88 this past February.

A TV Academy rep told E! that the Academy would comment officially sometime Monday.

Here's how you start that comment: "We are very, very sorry."

Come on. These tributes happen every single year at awards shows that always run long anyway! Sure, one might call Taylor and Lesser only bit players on big shows, or point out that Conaway really didn't do very much of significant note after "Taxi," but have some perspective. Taylor and Lesser's respective "Cosby" and "Seinfeld" roles might've been small, but they'd done plenty elsewhere in TV, film and on-stage - particularly Taylor. Moreover, Conaway was a part of an iconic ensemble cast.

But most importantly, their places in the annals of TV history aside, all three were beloved by people who were proud as could be that their nearest and dearest were shared with millions of viewers in primetime every week.

A lot of special people out there were those three performers' biggest fans.

Producers didn't so much wrong Conaway, Taylor and Lesser, as wrong their loved ones and co-stars who loved them by not granting them just a few final seconds of screen-time.