>>>>>I was just catching up on some New Yorker reading before falling asleep and this knocked me out. Wow. It's by the English writer Zadie Smith.
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>>>>>http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/12/22/081222fa_fact_smith
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>>>>Don't understand what it's about, who could care less about this family's comedy viewing, how you know half of them, and what knocked you out.
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>>>I just thought it was exceptionally well written. Obviously that's a matter of taste.
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>>If I write a touching article about my family's comedy viewing over the last 40 years can I get it published in the New Yorker too? Could do with the cash.
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>See if they have a curmudgeon column. :-) Unless dragan and jay have it sown up already

Jay has a whole cable channel, doesn't he.

Seriously, I was not being grouchy - just wondering why that article was cited. I found it a boring list of viewing and wasn't prepared to peruse it, having read the 1st few paras.