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Harvard wide receiver Keegan Toci ’07 was dismissed from the football team by head coach Tim Murphy over a sketch he performed at the team’s annual Skit Night on Sept. 7, a player confirmed last night...
...odds with her boss. In real life, Fey agrees with what NBC says about 30 Rock, which she also writes and produces. First, even though the network has a second fall debut--Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, from The West Wing's creator, Aaron Sorkin--about a sketch-comedy show, neither series is about that other marquee NBC property, SNL. (Of course not. I'll assume they're about Mad TV.) Second, neither is in competition with the other. "I'm pretty sure we can never be on at the same time," Fey says dryly. "They're a drama...
...conflicts is a study in how to deal with ideas on TV. Start with Studio 60 (Mondays, 10 p.m. E.T.), which is all about Big Important Subjects. Whither television? Whither social discourse? Whither this red-blue divided nation? The producer (Judd Hirsch) of Studio 60--the long-running sketch-show-within-a-show--is forced to kill a controversial sketch about Christians. He goes all Network on his network, launching an on-air tirade about how gutless corporations are "lobotomizing" America. (If there's no two-minute-plus speech, it ain't a Sorkin show.) After he is fired...
...couple but with more passion. (The women characters are much weaker: Harriet is a pretty billboard who serves as the token religious voice, while Peet drifts through with weird detachment, as if she were playing the princess of a small country.) And some details are spot-on: one invented sketch, "Peripheral Vision Man," is a dead ringer for the kind of lame skits that have long plagued SNL. I mean...
...self-serious and self-congratulatory--that he can do. From the mood lighting and stirring music to the hot-button story lines to the characters' arias on the august legacy of their show, Sorkin makes running a comedy program seem like negotiating an arms treaty. Is your beef with sketch shows that they used to be daring social critiques--("Chizzburger! Chizzburger!")--or that they used to make you laugh? Worse, Studio 60 fails to show us that Matt and Danny are actually funny. (Witty, yes, but so was President Bartlet.) In Episode 2, Matt has to come up with...