boob Tube: Mean Girls, Idiot Box | How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Hate Studio 60 on the Smugset Strip
 | Studio 60, despite its vaunted pedigree, is a glorified sitcom. Worse, even–it’s not even funny.... And that’s a problem for a show that’s supposed to be funny, even if the funny bits are just supposed to be the snippets of sketches we see. On the subject of those sketches…ouch.... And then there’s the Gilbert and Sullivan take-off. It was moderately amusing, but it begs the question–does Aaron Sorkin actually watch sketch comedy shows? Has he ever? |