Though her 'Life on the D-List' show is up for an Emmy, Kathy Griffin doesn't have a ticket to the Primetime Emmy Awards ceremony. (Maybe the diss is due to her "Suck it, Jesus!" acceptance-speech comment in 2007?)

Regardless, Griffin has a plan. "I would like to be the first celebrity seat-filler for the Emmy Awards," she announced on 'Late Night' (weeknights, 12:37AM ET on NBC).

Jimmy Fallon explained the $35 job: When an (invited) entertainer leaves their seat momentarily, the seat-filler helps maintain the look of a full house when the cameras pan the audience.

Griffin described what she'd be like as a seat-filler, mixing with the likes of Alec Baldwin and Kyra Sedgwick. She also offered sexual favors to the voting Academy members in order to ensure an Emmy win. Um, good luck?

In the Lame Title Department, ABC's annual New Year's Eve show will now be called Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve with Ryan Seacrest.

I dunno...couldn't they have come up with something snappier? Like maybe Dick and Ryan's New Year's Rockin' Eve ... oh never mind.

Anyway, it's old news that Ryan Seacrest has been co-hosting the show for the past three years with Dick Clark, who suffered a stroke several years ago. But now Seacrest has his name in the title, so I guess it's official.

I may have been a tad bit cynical about American Idol's big fundraiser show, Idol Gives Back, but the folks at the Academy of TV Arts and Sciences were clearly impressed. The Academy is giving American Idol its very first Emmy -- a special Governors Award -- for "harnessing the power of television to educate and inform viewers."

Executive producer Nigel Lythgoe said, "I'm really pleased that the Academy recognized the fact that this was more than a TV show."