The Tony Awards dropped in the ratings since last year, with the top reasons being “Neil Patrick Harris not hosting” and “Woman, the NBA Finals are on!”

Sunday night’s 64th Annual Tony Awards on CBS sank in the ratings, breaking a streak of major awards presentations improving on broadcast this year. The Tony’s drew 7 million viewers and a slender 1.2 preliminary rating among adults 18-49, down 8% from last year. Still, that’s not as weak as 2008, which managed to draw a 1.1 rating.

The telecast ran against ABC’s presentation of Game 5 of the NBA Finals, which was up 36% this year. The LA Lakers at Boston Celtics match drew a 12.8 overnight household rating — the highest of the series so far and marking the top-rated NBA Finals Game 5 since 2004. [THR]

Also siphoning viewers from the Tonys were the season premiere of “True Blood,” the season finale of “Breaking Bad,” and widespread heterosexuality.

Below, I’ve got a couple clips of Kristen Chenoweth with host Sean Hayes, the first of which was a makeout session directed at the Newsweek editorial that claimed Hayes couldn’t play a straight man. I think the evidence is inconclusive. This experiment needs a control group. That’s why I’m volunteering to be filmed making out with Kristen Chenoweth. Strictly for scientific purposes, of course. My boner will get to the bottom of this!

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Hey buddy, you mind? I’m tryin’ to watch something that matters.

The Emmys were last night, and unless you’ve got an iron will and the patience of Job, it’s unlikely you watched the entire telecast.

So here’s the entire night: “30 Rock” and “Mad Men” won for best comedy and drama, respectively; the pleasant surprises were Kristen Chenoweth for supporting actress in “Pushing Daisies” and Michael Emerson for supporting actor in “Lost”; and the most unpleasant surprises were Jon Cryer winning  best supporting actor in a comedy for “Two and a Half Men” and the criminal snub of “Generation Kill” for best miniseries, which went to “Little Dorritt.” There you go. That’s everything that’s worth talking about if you want to pretend that the Emmys have half the import of the Oscars.

More importantly, following a night where all of my TV crushes were assembled in one place, I’d like to petition the government to make Blake Lively’s breasts a national monument of some sort. I know I’ve said this before, but they are SPECTACULAR. And I don’t mean that in any kind of chauvinist or demeaning way: they’re just a natural beauty crafted by God, like Devil’s Tower or the Badlands or the falls at Yosemite. You should be able to pay $15 to elbow some German tourists out of the way and get a good look at them. I wanna go camping there.

(live blog here, more on the winners here, excellent column on the awards here)