>>>And as far as comedy goes - the current Thursday night lineup on NBC - 2 blessed hours without a laugh track and some genuine brilliance - is encouraging.
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>>What's on the second hour? I want The Office religiously and I catch Earl sometimes. I can't think of what is on after them though.
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>Scrubs which can be uneven but is still waaaay ahead of laughtrackland
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>And the brilliant 30 Rock - which is at the level of Earl and Office. Tina Fey and Alec Baldwin are as good as the game.


I should check out "30 Rock". Tina Fey is riotously funny (also hot) and has the same sense of humor I do, just funnier. One of her best lines on SNL was not long before 9/11, when Rudy Giuliani was still the lame duck and increasingly unpopular mayor of NYC. The story in the news at the time was Rudy trying to shut down an exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum of Art that he considered objectionable, apparently on religious grounds. Tina's take: "I don't want to see that kind of filth when I go to the museum with my mistress." (Referring to Judy Nathan, who is now Mrs. Giuliani #3 and the incumbent).