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...source, the Harvard Lampoon.) In some ways, SNL is a victim of its own success. Writers can now find many other markets in prime time for their talents, at least in part because of the SNL influence: several of last year's younger writers have left for shows like Seinfeld, The Simpsons and News Radio. "The sensibility of SNL is all over TV now," says former staff writer Robert Smigel, one of four people who rejected offers from Michaels to take over as head writer. Smigel will instead be executive producer of a new sketch-comedy show Dana Carvey...
Although Roseanne is confident that ABC will pick up her AbFab, the comedian has been frustrated with the development process. "It's a groundbreaking show for this country, and it is difficult for the network to see what the show is. We just got hip enough to watch Seinfeld and see unmarried people having sex. This show isn't going to be Growing Pains or Cybill," she says, referring to the AbFab-influenced, modestly rated Cybill Shepherd sitcom in which the main character has a boozy, brassy best friend...
...they asked the most important question of the 1990s: Is it better to be hip than smart? And of course, it is far better to be hip than smart. What they should have asked was, why is it better to be hip than smart? The Esquire editors had Jerry Seinfeld on their cover, but really, Fifteen Minutes (FM), The Crimson's weekly magazine which chronicles the feats and foibles of students here, could just as easily have been on their mind...
...Seinfeld of print; it's a magazine that prides itself on being about nothing. We readers have always been in search of 15 minutes of fame, 15 minutes of mindless ecstatic delight in the marginalia of our college, continually examined and undressed. Addictively, slavishly, we read FM with our eyes glazed with dim recollection, with our teeth gnashing over memories of the low-fat plum pudding bars and fish pizzaiola which Harvard Dining Services purveys. We are easily stupefied by the most clever publication around. Like the couple in Don Delillo's White Noise, who make love only...
...Where Seinfeld is smart and appealingly free-form, Friends is inane and gimmicky. The characters are constantly abusing that most bogus of sitcom conventions--playing out their intimate personal crises in front of the largest possible group. The worst offender is Ross (David Schwimmer), a gawky shlub whose wife has left him. Ross seems incapable of making any move in his love life without polling everybody at the coffee bar. In one episode he is flustered when a new girlfriend wants him to talk dirty to her. For advice he goes to studly friend Joey, who coaxes him into "practicing...