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DIED. Bob Carroll Jr., 88, veteran TV writer who helped define the seminal '50s sitcom I Love Lucy; in Los Angeles. Carroll and partner Madelyn Pugh were the first permanent writers hired for Lucille Ball's 1940s radio show My Favorite Husband--the precursor to the TV hit starring Ball and real-life husband Desi Arnaz. Carroll, who later wrote for The Lucy Show and Life with Lucy, went on to write for every I Love Lucy episode...
...adapts her Jesus persona into sitcom form with The Sarah Silverman Program, a surreal mix of comedy, singing (she has a lovely, musical-theater voice) and animation that pushes more buttons than an Empire State Building elevator operator. In one episode, her character ("Sarah Silverman") sleeps with God, who is black, then blows him off, but not without guilt. "I'm not one of those people," she protests, "who's like, 'Oh, God is black--is he going to steal the moon or something?'" In another, she takes in a homeless man to upstage her sister's humanitarian boyfriend...
...just the other Office anymore. The remake of the great British sitcom has found its own voice, satirizing the culture of coffee, cubicles and Chili's with heart and laser precision. The deep bench of its cast provides a pointillistic taxonomy of American office life (who doesn't work with an Angela, a Kevin or a Stanley?). And the wistful Pam-and-Jim almost-romance--all together now: Awww!--threatens to give the Sam-and-Diane saga a run for its long-unconsummated money...
...many chefs kind of thing.”The band’s experience recording “Ganging Up on the Sun” was documented by episodes of “Joe’s Place,” a ten-minute reality sitcom starring the band and made available on the Internet. In addition to “Joe’s Place,” Guster’s website provides a multitude of media-savvy features including podcasts, a tour blog, and several music videos. This virtual accessibility suggests the growing power of the Internet...
...once-indomitable Wu-Tang Clan has slowly dispersed, and there is no question as to which of its former members has done the best for himself. ODB is dead. Method Man will forever live in sitcom infamy. The rest have decent solo careers, but only one, Ghostface Killah, has put out an album so vital (“Fishscale”) that its outtakes are essential listening...