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...boys ask the two on a dinner date that ends up enlightening all four on the subject of love and relationships, and provides the actors an opportunity to show off their comic flair. The play, with a plot that uncannily resembles an episode of a ’70s sitcom, moves from there through a series of predictable, but often humorous, situations...
...other words, is 21st century TV. Therein lie its pleasures and its risks. The real-time concept is a dramatic answer to reality TV's aesthetic of immediacy and edge. (Next year NBC will air a real-time Julia Louis-Dreyfus sitcom, tentatively titled 23:12 for the average length of a sitcom minus ads.) But the format is a pain to pull off. The tight time frame means the first few episodes cement choices that will be hard to reverse if the creators have second thoughts. "We had to lay out a map, literally, of where people were...
...self-described "aggressive" comic--a dynamic ball of anger whose act is loaded with four-and 12-letter epithets--also used to joke that the networks would be scared to give him a sitcom like his more cuddly Kings co-star Steve Harvey. Well, that joke's over. With The Bernie Mac Show (Fox, Wednesdays starting Nov. 14, 9p.m. E.T.), Mac is about to become America's most provocative and (trust us) strangely likeable...
...brags about his grown daughter's graduate studies in psychology and her upcoming wedding, unironically uses "doggone" as an expletive and still lives in his hometown, Chicago. But after decades in stand-up (he did monologues at church banquets as a kid), he found success when raunchy comic turned sitcom star Redd Foxx encouraged him to make his act more dangerous. "He said, 'Young man, you're funny,'" Mac recalls. "'But your problem is, you don't want to be funny. You want to be liked...
Like Chris Rock's, Mac's R-rated stage act is laced with a conservatism--he wants parents to be parents and kids to be kids--that actually makes him a perfect choice for a family sitcom. And the series' creator, Larry Wilmore (The PJs), has retained Mac's stand-up voice, but fleshed it out with strong supporting characters, especially the kids, who convey their rough history without falling into ghetto stereotypes. In the pilot, Bernie's nephew Jordan (Jeremy Suarez) shows the stress of the move by repeatedly wetting himself. The story line could have just been...