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...HOMER AGAIN No longer a ratings powerhouse, The Simpsons (with its 23 Emmys) is TV's longest-running sitcom. Will the movie end its long yellow streak? Don't eat your shorts just yet--Fox can't be eager to fill a gaping, Homer-shaped hole...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jun. 4, 2007 | 5/24/2007 | See Source »

...Good news, paleoanthropology and commercial fans: the Geico Cavemen are getting a sitcom on ABC. Despite misgivings about the viability of a 30-sec. spot as source material, blog site DEFAMER praises "the network's attempt to synthesize the best elements of auto-insurance advertising and situational comedy into a groundbreaking, hybrid infotainment form." SCORE...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: May 28, 2007 | 5/17/2007 | See Source »

...started to think about keeping Rogen around when he improvised a sweet, funny scene in which his character wonders if he's gay after finding out his girlfriend was born a hermaphrodite. When Freaks ended after one season, Apatow tried to cast Rogen as the lead of Undeclared, a sitcom about college kids. The network, however, didn't think Rogen looked like a leading actor. "He was already approved to be in the cast, and they literally got angry at me for suggesting it," Apatow says. "And I said, 'Let's not do the show then...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Education of A Comic Prodigy | 5/17/2007 | See Source »

...that laid-back, inappropriate confidence that makes Rogen so endearing. You expect someone so obviously out of place everywhere--a 13-year-old on a stand-up-comedy stage, an 18-year-old high school dropout on a sitcom-writing staff, the schlub who gets to romance Katherine Heigl--to be uncomfortable. Instead, he acts as if, while he may have wandered into the scene accidentally, he belongs there. Or maybe he is stoned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Education of A Comic Prodigy | 5/17/2007 | See Source »

...corporate world doesn't work as well in American pop culture because the corporate world co-opts rebellion so well. For businesses from FedEx to CareerBuilder.com there's no better way to reach white-collar workers than with ads that say white-collar workers are idiots. In the TV sitcom The Office, the lousy boss, Michael Scott (Steve Carell), is the one who walks around singing Todd Rundgren: "I don't want to work/ I want to bang on the drum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Officeworkers Need a Springsteen Too | 5/17/2007 | See Source »

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