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...last Tuesday he guested on the Tonight Show. He is going to be host of You Don't Know Jack, a game show for ABC. He talks about wanting to remake the Eddie Cantor movie Kid Millions and writing his autobiography. He's also still pushing the variety show-sitcom Meet the Muckles, which he wrote in the late '80s and spent three years trying to make. Reubens' perfectionism, which led to spiraling costs, along with supportive NBC programming chief Warren Littlefield's firing, scrapped the project. Getting caught at a Sarasota porno palace probably didn't help...
...have by now proceeded at warp speed to the next installment (China crisis, market crisis, etc.) George W. Bush is firmly installed at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue; he is even ratified in office by a new weekly Comedy Central television sitcom, "That's My Bush!", aimed at persuading us that we have a president who is as moronic as the authors of the show...
Bette may be gone, but the star-vehicle sitcom train of 2000-01 sputters on. The always adorable Joan Cusack is betrayed by the relationship comedy Joan, which cranks up her neurotic cuteness to clinically diagnosable levels and plays a little like a live-action version of Cathy. Damon Wayans fares better as a besieged patriarch in Wife, but it too visibly strains to be a 21st century Cosby Show, less because of the bourgie African-American milieu than because of the tiredly wisecracking Huxtabilitude it shoehorns the acerbic Wayans into...
...veteran partner--grapple with a murder investigation and issues of loyalty and betrayal. Lonergan, an Oscar-nominated screenwriter (You Can Count on Me) and playwright (This Is Our Youth, The Waverly Gallery) weaves an intriguing tale that keeps one glued to the stage for two hours. But too many sitcom-style laughs and contrived character twists betray this off-Broadway comedy-drama as a slick but disposable confection...
Before they started preparing for the show, which involved watching old sitcoms, taking a trip to the White House and getting a tour of the Everybody Loves Raymond set, neither had watched a sitcom in 10 years. "The ones I hate the most are the ones where the laughs come from people being mean to each other," says Stone. So in the Bush show they went about spoofing the genre, down to the wacky neighbor, ditsy secretary and, of course, the stupid, bumbling husband...