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...President. So when the George W. Bush character says to a prisoner he's about to execute, "Hey scum, ready to die by lethal injection? Maybe you'd prefer the gas chamber," and then farts in his face, you have to understand that they're actually deconstructing a sitcom trope. If anything, Mr. President, Trey Parker and Matt Stone think this is going to be a big boost to your image. "We wanted to take George Bush, who is somewhat vilified, and make him likeable," explains Stone. "To us, that's way more subversive than making him look like...
...Bush's big campaign promises was to restore dignity to the Oval Office, he'd better focus on that tax cut. On April 4 at 10:30 p.m. E.T., Comedy Central will air the first episode of That's My Bush!, the South Park creators' sitcom about the current Administration that finally ends the discussion about how far the media can go in their treatment of a politician's personal life. In the first few episodes, Bush stages a fake execution for his old frat buddies but mistakenly takes them to the real one; the Chief Executive steals cable...
...Parker and Stone don't seem to have any disdain for the President. Neither voted, and they sold the idea of a sitcom about the presidency to Comedy Central (half-owned by AOL Time Warner, parent company of TIME) the summer before the election; the recount pushed the show back from its planned March debut and also reduced the number of episodes from 10 to eight. In fact, before November, the only plot they had sketched out had President Gore trying to convince people that he was the real President while being usurped by a life-size robot. And before...
...contrivance and cheap laughs at every turn. Example: Jeff, the cutely self-aware nincompoop, doesn't want to betray his boss's confidence, so he tells the whole story to Dawn by disguising it, ineptly, as a "hypothetical" case, a ruse she sees through in about five seconds. Pure sitcom schtick - like too much in Lonergan's work...
History suggests that something--be it a Wayans brother, a pill-popping cop or a fluffy rabbit--should surprise and win over the audience soon. In 1983-84 there was one sitcom--Kate & Allie--in the top 10. The next year The Cosby Show debuted. With the Friends soon to receive their Modern Maturity subscriptions, the right attention-grabbing comic at the right time could end up one lucky bunny...