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Another Thing I'm Not Watching Tonight…

…is The Sarah Silverman Program, because I’ve already seen it. You should, though, and I want to hear what you think, because as I wrote (and have heard), it’s a polarizing show. But mostly because I’d love to see what the Venn diagram of Comedy Central watchers + time.com readers is.

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JPTV: What I'm Watching Tonight–And Not

Tonight Tuned In hopscotches the NBC Must-See Comedy lineup: The Office and 30 Rock si, Scrubs no, My Name Is Earl… mmmmmmaybe. To fill the gaps I may watch another episode or two of the very promising midseason Andy Richter sitcom NBC sent. Ugly Betty goes into the TiVo freezer for later, as does Letterman’s [...]

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"It had a very sinister appearance. It had a battery behind it, and wires"

OK, let’s take a hypothetical. You’ve just devoted the resources of a major city to shutting down roads and rails in order to keep the people of your good metropolis safe from a plague of homemade lite brites, one that somehow managed to infest nine other cities without mass panic. Do you (a) swallow hard, [...]

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It's Worse Than We Thought

First they took Boston. Now they’re attacking our bars. All you armchair quarterbacks who said the Homeland Security budget should be focused on trivia like securing ex-Soviet nuke material, atomic-power plants and major urban subway systems–you’re not laughing now, are you?

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Is He Having a Laugh? Is He Having a Laugh?

OK, let’s be clear about this. I love Ricky Gervais. Hell, everybody loves Ricky Gervais. Funny podcast. The Office, a modern classic. He even helped us believe Ben Stiller is a credible kids’ movie star when not playing a cartoon zoo animal. I am not worthy, I am not worthy, etc., etc. But–and tell me [...]