I was in the play a few years ago (playing the Russian who owns the DVD store next door [a role updated as Jobrani's Iranian]), and, at the time, we thought what great potential it had to be a sitcom.
I thought the final version was inexcusably bad, with lazy, one-note writing and an overall amateurish feel. I don't know what it is about CBS and sitcoms (maybe the geriatric demo?), but this, that horrid thing with poor Joel McHale, and "The Big Bang Theory" are almost anti-comedies, relentless in their attempts to give every outward appearance of being funny (including the "Ozzie and Harriet"-level laugh tracks) without ever coming close. I felt especially bad for Hirsch, Jobrani, and Koechner, who were stuck with trying to make substandard writing palatable. In a word, awful. -- Dave Sikula -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
