It was a night of surprises at the 35th annual Daytime Entertainment Emmy Awards as the younger shows shoved aside the veterans to take home the top prizes.

"Rachael Ray," "The Tyra Banks Show" and "Cristina's Court" were surprise winners in the categories of best talk show, entertainment and informative, and best legal/courtroom program Friday night at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood. All are new categories this year (talk show had never been split into two divisions before).

"Rachael Ray," which debuted in 2006, won over "The View" and "The Ellen DeGeneres Show," which had won best talk show for the previous four years. DeGeneres, however, still walked away with her third consecutive trophy for best talk show host. While DeGeneres said backstage that it felt odd to be carrying only one trophy this year, she was a good sport, hijacking the microphone to announce Ray and her crew.

Banks, whose show beat out "Dr. Phil" and PBS' "A Place of Our Own," said backstage that she had submitted the infamous and ubiquitous "kiss my fat ass" episode to academy voters. Referencing the episode onstage, Banks said: "I just have a message for everybody out there: When you have a dream, there are going to so many people that tell you that you cannot do it, that you are not good enough. And I want you to tell them to kiss your dimply, flat, juicy, bootylicious, skinny, jiggly, saggy fat ass!"

"Cristina's Court," now in its second season, beat out long-running gavelers "Judge Judy" and "The People's Court," among other contenders. Of beating "Judy," "Cristina's" executive producer Peter Brennan quipped backstage, "I'm scared to death!"

Meanwhile, ABC's "General Hospital" took home its 10th Daytime Emmy for best drama series, while best drama series writing and directing honors went to ABC's "One Life to Live."

"GH's" Anthony Geary was named best lead actor in a drama series, and Jeanne Cooper -- who has been on "The Young & the Restless" since 1973 and is the longest-tenured actor on the show -- took home her first Daytime Emmy for lead actress.

In the other acting categories, supporting trophies went to Gina Tognoni of CBS' "Guiding Light" and Kristoff St. John of "The Young & the Restless." The younger acting honors went to Tom Pelphrey of "Guiding Light" and Jennifer Landon of CBS' "As the World Turns," who won her third consecutive Daytime Emmy and gave a shoutout to her late father, Michael Landon, in her acceptance speech.

Also during the ceremony, Jimmy Kimmel presented "Live With Regis and Kelly" co-host Regis Philbin with the Lifetime Achievement Award, saying that Philbin had "wasted over 30 billion hours of (viewers') time" during his TV career.