It's a good day for funny people, especially if your name is Tina Fey or Seth MacFarlane.

Fey's series, 30 Rock, was handed 22 Emmy nominations this morning, which stands as a record for a comedy series. She and Alec Baldwin were also nominated for acting awards. Plus, for the first time some of the other actors on NBC's laffer  were recognized. Jane Krakowski, Jack McBrayer and Tracy Morgan all picked up supporting nominations.

MacFarlane's Family Guy was also nominated for best comedy series, the first time an animated show has cracked that category since The Flintstones in 1961. Two years ago MacFarlane decided to pull his show from contention in the animated series category to have it considered for best comedy.

Mad Men, the drama about the advertising world in the sixties, picked up 16 nominations in the drama categories, including a best actor nod for Jon Hamm. Hamm is also nominated as a guest actor in a comedy series for his turn on 30 Rock.

Fey was also nominated for a guest actor Emmy for her portrayal of Sarah Palin on Saturday Night Live.

If there was a surprise in this morning's announcement it was in the list of nominees for short-form, live-action format, which grouped TV and Web broadcast entertainment together. In addition to Web productions by the networks — Battlestar Galactica's The Face of the Enemy and The Daily Show's The Daily Show Correspondents on Jon Stewart webisodes — was Joss Whedon's Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog, the three-episode short that debuted on iTunes.

Missing from the list of nominees? Here's a few series that you can use to kick-start some watercooler conversation this afternoon: Battlestar Galactica, Burn Notice, Leverage, Rescue Me, The Shield, Life, True Blood.

Below is a list of the nominees in the major categories for scripted television. A full list of nominees is on the following page.

The awards will be presented on Sunday, Sept. 20. Neil Patrick Harris has been tapped to host the event, which will broadcast on CBS.


Outstanding comedy series
Entourage
Family Guy
Flight of the Conchords
How I Met Your Mother
The Office
30 Rock
Weeds

Lead actress in a comedy series
Julia Louis-Dreyfus, The New Adventures of Old Christine
Christina Applegate, Samantha Who?
Sarah Silverman, The Sarah Silverman Program
Tina Fey, 30 Rock
Toni Collette, United States of Tara
Mary-Louise Parker, Weeds

Lead actor in a comedy series
Jim Parsons, The Big Bang Theory
Jemaine Clement, Flight of the Conchords
Tony Shalhoub, Monk
Steve Carell, The Office
Alec Baldwin, 30 Rock
Charlie Sheen, Two and a Half Men

Supporting actress in a comedy series
Kristin Chenoweth, Pushing Daisies
Amy Poehler, Saturday Night Live
Kristin Wiig, Saturday Night Live
Jane Krakowski, 30 Rock
Vanessa William, Ugly Betty
Elizabeth Perkins, Weeds

Supporting actor in a comedy series
Kevin Dillon, Entourage
Neil Patrick Harris, How I Met Your Mother
Rainn Wilson, The Office
Tracy Morgan, 30 Rock
Jack McBrayer, 30 Rock
Jon Cryer, Two and a Half Men

Drama series
Big Love
Breaking Bad
Damages
Dexter
House
Lost
Mad Men

Lead actress in a drama series
Sally Field, Brothers & Sisters
Kyra Sedgwick, The Closer
Glenn Close, Damages
Mariska Hargitay, Law & Order: SVU
Elisabeth Moss, Mad Men
Holly Hunter, Saving Grace

Lead actor in a drama series
Bryan Cranston, Breaking Bad
Michael C. Hall, Dexter
Hugh Laurie, House
Gabriel Byrne, In Treatment
Jon Hamm, Mad Men
Simon Baker, The Mentalist

Supporting actor in a drama series
William Shatner, Boston Legal
Christian Clemenson, Boston Legal
Aaron Paul, Breaking Bad
William Hurt, Damages
Michael Emerson, Lost
John Slattery, Mad Men

Supporting actress in a drama series
Rose Byrne, Damages
Sandra Oh, Grey's Anatomy
Chandra Wilson, Grey's Anatomy
Dianne Wiest, In Treatment
Hope Davis, In Treatment
Cherry Jones, 24

Voice-over performance
Ron Rifkin, narrator in American Masters: Jerome Robbins: Something to Dance About
Seth MacFarlane as Peter Griffin in Family Guy, I Dream of Jesus
Seth Green as Robot Chicken Nerd, Bob Goldstein, Ponda Baba, Anakin Skywalker, Imperial Officer in Robot Chicken: Star Wars Episode II
Hank Azaria as Moe Syzlak in The Simpsons, EenyTeeny Maya, Moe
Harry Shearer as Mr. Burns, Smithers, Kent Brockman, Lenny in The Simpsons, The Burns and the Bees
Dan Castellaneta as Homer Simpson in The Simpsons, Father Knows Worst

Outstanding animated program (under an hour)
American Dad: Sixteen-Hundred Candles
Robot Chicken: Star Wars Episode II
The Simpsons: Gone Maggie Gone
South Park: Margaritaville

Outstanding animated program (over an hour)
Afro Samurai: Resurrection
Destination Imagination

Variety, music or comedy series
The Colbert Report
The Daily Show With Jon Stewart
Late Show With David Letterman
Real Time With Bill Maher
Saturday Night Live

Variety, music or comedy special
Chris Rock -- Kill the Messenger
Kathy Griffin: She'll Cut a Bitch
The Kennedy Center Honors
Ricky Gervais: Out of England -- The Stand-Up Special
Will Ferrell: You're Welcome America

Made for television movie
Coco Chanel
Grey Gardens
Into the Storm
Prayers for Bobby
Taking Chance

Short-format live-action program
Battlestar Galactica: The Face of the Enemy (Syfy.com)
Bruce Springsteen Super Bowl Halftime Show
The Daily Who: The Daily Show Correspondents on Jon Stewart (ComedyCentral.com)
Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog (drhorrible.com)
30 Rock's Kenneth the Web Page (NBC.com)