Studio 60 is AWESOME! Great tribute to New Orleans tonight.

They did another great show and they had a wonderful tribute to New Orleans with jazz musicians. They did this very moving rendition of O Holy Night...I think that was the song. In the background they had a huge screen with images of New Orleans.

It was very meaningful and well done.

Tonight on KO they did this segment about how FEMA and "Heckuva job Brownie" wasted and or lost 1 Billion dollars - with a "B" - of taxpayer money in the fiasco of a response to the natural disaster.
ONE BILLION DOLLARS!

Remembering Katrina still infuriates me and fills me with sadness and I wasn't even a victim or a survivor directly effected by it.

How could they lose an American city? How could let Americans suffer and die, right here in America? How could they not prepare for a disaster that came with an ADVANCED WARNING? Pathetic. Shameful. Repulsive.

of the war was great too.

reganites forced the cancellation of Lou Grant.

that it won't last to next season. That will make me sad. The show makes me laugh many, many times. And not the stupid, gut laugh I get from watching Adam Sandler (which often makes me fell a little guilty for finding such stupidity funny) but a very heady, intelligent laugh.

The less we see of the show-within-a-show the better. The ideas and stories surrounding that fictional show are the most compelling elements for me. Apparently, they’ve been given a year to figure that out. I sure hope they do.

Maybe he is getting better at that aspect of writing. I agree that everything else has been mediocre or worse in the comedy sketches though.

Hilarious debunking of fundie shibboleths is "too much Jesus"? I almost forgot I was watching network television.

"Jesus was born in North Africa. How come paintings always make him look like one of the Bee Gees?"

and I thought a point was being made by it.

The writers were doing way too much research. They had decided they were smarter than believing in all this Christmas crap and they were going to Google all the fun out of it. They were so dead serious about "debunking Christmas" that at first they weren't getting on board with the whole concept, which was to WRITE A CHRISTMAS SHOW AND HAVE SOME FUN AND MAKE IT FUNNY.

Having a Christmas show and having some fun and making it funny was diametrically opposed to arguing over whether Jesus was born in the spring or whether one of Santa's reindeer was named Donner, Donder or Dunder in the original poem. At first they were discussing this so much that they weren't writing any funny sketches.

You'll note that the actual "example of a funny sketch" we saw had nothing to do with their Christmas-debunking "research"--it had to do with taking that time-honored Christmas tradition, Santa coming down the chimney to deliver toys to kids, and turning it into an episode of To Catch a Predator. "You thought you were going to meet a 12-year-old girl here, didn't you?" Now THAT was funny! :rofl:

And the finale with the NOLA musicians...there was nothing "debunking" about that. Except to maybe debunk the idea that everything in NOLA is OK now. What a beautiful ending that hit just the right note, so to speak.

I am usually pretty cynical, but I cried during that entire song.
What an incredible piece!
We need to remember and keep remembering in every context and make room for the survivors in our everyday lives.