I was just picking out a Christian birthday e-card for Will Leitch (happy birthday, Will!) because the ironic co-opting of Christian commerce and culture will NEVER GET OLD as far as I'm concerned (I walk the walk with Michael W. Smith's "Friends" as my ringtone) and I saw this one, left, under the "humorous" section and it struck me as oddly inappropriate, considering it's for an audience of people who do believe the end is near and believe it will involve the eternal suffering of billions. But whatever, those crazy Christians, right?
Speaking of "crazy christians", Studio 60: you're on notice. Are we honestly supposed to believe that a middle aged writer for Vanity Fair reads comedy live-blogs of sketch shows? Or that anyone reads live blogs? Or that anyone besides us reads comedy blogs at all? Or that straight grown men in their 40's run around their offices harassing each other about whether or not they're still in love with their ex girlfriends? Also, if you're going to do an entire episode about stealing a joke, how hard would it be to make that joke...somewhat...funny?
I have had such a problem buying into Studio 60 due to its lack of quality sketch comedy material... either stop including the show within the show or get some real comedy writers in there to do the comedy. As it is, I want to punch my tv every time they show the audience going apeshit over lame material.
Posted by: jess | October 10, 2006 at 02:11 PM
They played "Friends" at my high school graduation. Barf!
Posted by: Niche | October 12, 2006 at 04:39 PM