Entourage: Let's Blog It Out

OK, folks, it's Joshie Award nominee season.

In the past, I've "studied" all the season's episodes and come up with the categories and nominees for the Joshies, which honor excellence in "Entourage."

I will do the same again for Season 5, but in the interest of character/plot development, I'm opening up the nominee suggestion box to readers.

Below you will find the Joshie categories for Season 5. If you don't know what the Joshies Awards are, you better ask somebody. Feel free to use the comments here to suggest scenes for each category worthy of Joshie consideration. Heck, you can even suggest new categories.

No guarantees, of course, but my hunch is you might be able to sway the academy.

As for the voting schedule, it goes like this: We'll post all the nominees on Tuesday, Nov. 25. The polls will be open for one week, closing at 11:59 p.m. Dec. 2. Then, on Thursday, Dec. 4, the Joshies will be unveiled to the world.

Fire away!

Best Best Printable Line

Best Johnny Drama Moment

Best Random Hot Chick

Best Storyline

Best Location

Best Guest Star

Best Character You Want to See More of

Best Comeback

Best Overall Performance

Best Ari Gold Moment

Best Scene

Best Episode

Relive past Joshie Awards

By Mark La Monica

We gave you categories. We gave you nominees. You voted. Now, we give you the winners of the Season 4 Joshie Awards, honoring excellence in "Entourage."

Best Johnny Drama Moment

We knew it once we saw it for the first time, but in the interests of democracy, we provided a few other options. It didn't matter. Drama in the bunny suit with the furry smoked the competition with 46.9 percent of the vote.

Best Random Hot Chick

This was a hotly contested battle, but eeking out the win by two votes was Kat, Billy Walsh's girlfriend. She squeaked by the village girl from "Medellin" (played by Sofia Vergara), 29.2 percent - 28.7 percent. Anyone else interested in seeing those two battle it out in an "I Demand a Recount!" no disqualification match on Monday Night Raw?

Best Storyline

It seems the personal life of Ari Gold struck a chord with people besides me. With 36.8 percent of the vote, Ari Gold doing whatever he can to get his kid into private school won this Joshie.

Best Location

No shocker here. Cannes stuffed the other nominees in a crepe and hit them with a baguette . . . and 53.8 percent of your votes.
Cannes (161 responses)

Best Guest Star

No doubt fueled by his brilliant performance in the final episode, Adam Goldberg (Nicky Rubinstein on the show) stormed past Anna Faris for this Joshie. "Line up some rails, we're celebrating!" with 34 percent of the vote, compared with Anna Faris' 26.5.

Best Character You Want to See More of

Sexy lingerie scenes vs. sexy powerful business woman scenes. It's a tough decision, evidenced by Mrs. Ari's five-vote win over Dana Gordon for this Joshie. Final margin: 31.7 percent to 30.3 percent.

Best Overall Performance

Not even close! Ari Gold set a Joshies record with 83.7 percent of the vote.

Best Ari Gold Moment

Despite the sketch on the dashboard, Ari lying to Lloyd's boyfriend Tom brought home 31.3 percent of your votes for this Joshie.

Best Scene

We knew it once we saw it for the first time, but in the interests of democracy, we provided a few other options. It didn't matter. Drama in the bunny suit with the furry smoked the competition with 34.2 percent of the vote.

Best Episode

We knew it once we saw it for the first time, but in the interests of democracy, we provided a few other options. It didn't matter. "The Day ----ers," aka the bunny suit/furry episode, smoked the competition with 42.4 percent of the vote. Honorable mention to "Sorry, Harvey" and its 36.7 showing in the polls. Turtle's Harvey impersonation still makes us laugh.

Recap these and the inaugural Joshies.

By Mark La Monica

Named after an epic Ari Gold moment, the Joshie Awards salute excellence in "Entourage."

We picked the categories and the nominees and it's up to you to vote for the winners of the second round of Joshies, based solely on Season 4. (The first round incorporated Seasons 1-3.5, mostly because I didn't think of the idea until then.)

Below, you will find 10 categories, each in their own individual blog post. The voting begins as soon I hit the save button and lasts until noon Sept. 12. On Friday, Sept. 14 at 2 p.m., we'll announce the Joshie Award winners. Now get to voting (and vote as many times as you wish.) Victory!

He's Johnny Drama, king of the meltdown and the outrageous antics and comments.

Best Johnny Drama Moment
• On the beach with Jacqueline
• Getting painted by Gary Busey
• Losing out on Lisa Rinna in the hot tub
• As a soldier storming Pablo Escobar's home in "Medellin"
• In a bunny suit with the furry
• Kicking people out of his condo
• Trying to get a medical marijuana card and then bugging out

Poll is now closed. Thanks for voting.

Is it possible to have a show about a young movie star and his friends making their way through Hollywood without including smoking hot women? Nope. And away we go with the Season 4 Joshie nominees for Best Random Hot Chick on "Entourage."

• Sammy, the girl that takes Vince to Dennis Hopper's house
• Juliette, E's British chick
• Heather, Vince's British chick
• Jacqueline, Drama's French paramour
• Kat, Billy Walsh's girlfriend
• The village girl from "Medellin"
• Morgan, the girl that Turtle brought home for him

Poll is now closed. Thanks for voting.

We get plenty of laughs from "Entourage." But, we also need some plot to help carry us from one laugh to the next, and one episode to the next. Here are the Season 4 Joshie nominees for Best Storyline on "Entourage."

• The rise and fall of "Medellin"
• The Beverly Hills mayor getting caught on YouTube
• Ari Gold doing whatever he can to get his kid into private school
• Unemotional sex and furries
• E branching out to work with other clients
• The leaked "Medellin" trailer on YouTube
• Drama's French paramour

Poll is now closed. Thanks for voting.

Studio sets smell. "On location" doesn't smell. Here are the Season 4 Joshie nominees for Best Location on "Entourage."

• Cannes
• On the set of "Medellin"
• E's new office
• Drama's condo
• The pool at W Hotel

Poll is now closed. Thanks for voting.

Cameo isn't just a watch or an old-school rapper. These cameos on "Entourage" had us saying "Word up!" Here are the Season 4 Joshie nominees for Best Guest Star on "Entourage."

• Anna Faris
• Kanye West
• Shanna Moakler
• The Sklar brothers
• Snoop Dogg
• Adam Goldberg

Poll is now closed. Thanks for voting.

Some characters leave you wanting more. Here are the Season 4 Joshie nominees for Best Character You Want to See More of on "Entourage."

• Mrs. Ari
• Harvey
• Dana Gordon
• Nicky Rubinstein
• Shauna

Poll is now closed. Thanks for voting.

Even in an ensemble cast, certain characters stand out. The Season 4 Joshie nominees for Best Overall Performance by a Character on "Entourage" are:

• Ari Gold
• Billy Walsh
• E
• Vince

Poll is now closed. Thanks for voting.

You don't win a Big Knish Award without having several memorable scenes. Here are the Season 4 Joshie nominees for Best Ari Gold Moment on "Entourage."

• Hiring a private investigator to dig up dirt on the Briar Country Day headmaster
• Locking Dana Gordon out of her boss' office to tell him to make "S.I.L.O."
• Pulling his daughter out of Briar Country Day
• Lying to Lloyd's boyfriend Tom
• Sandbagging Josh Weinstein to get Heath Ledger off "Lost in the Clouds"
• Convincing Javier not to kiss Mrs. Ari in a soap opera scene
• Discovering the valet gave him the wrong car

Poll is now closed. Thanks for voting.