Apart from Fawlty Towers, has there been any comedy show that had a stellar first episode?

The pause before that applause may have been YouTube buffering, but it was hilarious!

One thing I remember about the representation storyline was that the new black writer that they hired was the only person who ever had to call anyone "sir".

Interesting point and it raises a question. What is the lowest stakes succesful TV drama?

I love the fact that after Matthew Perry was cast in this; Ross, the largest of the Friends, ended up with a better role in a better show about a late night TV show.

I think Liz cared. I think she was unable to do much about it, but I think she genuinely wanted to put on the best show she could, given the circumstances.

And also because it is easier to get laughs out of people who fundamentally bad at what they do.

I think it was relevant that the sketches were not funny. One of the driving plots to the show was the struggle to produce this great art. And yet, whenever we see them finally defeat whatever plot demons got in their way, what they actually produced was shit. But they celebrated as if it was great.
It was like a…

I don't know what was worse, Aaron Sorking using Studio 60 to refight, and this time win, arguments with Kristin Chenoweth or when he used Newsroom to refight, and this time win, arguments he had with the news channels.

While we cann all agree that Studio 60 was a failure, glorious or otherwise, I would strongly reccomend the Twitter uses among you to follow this guy: https://twitter.com/mattalb…

And they can't even pass that off as saying she can only do it in character. She hosted the pretend news segment on the show, which was entirely in thr format of Set Up —- Punchline. She told actual jokes for an actual living!

Oh my god. That Gilbert and Sullivan "sketch" was horrible. Not only was it deeply unfunny, but it was lazy and hacky writing too. Firstly, Modern Major General (or any patter song really) is the easiest thing to write lyrics and shows a severe lack of ambition or talent on the part of the supposedly amazing Matt…

Part of the premise of Studio 60 was that this sketch comedy show mattered in a way that it simply didnt. The importance of the show within a show was baked into the DNA of the show, it was sold as if whether Krazee Kristians made it to the air would be an important event in the national life of America. That is the…

Why does it have to be the weapon that changes depending on who gets hit? Make them foam swords, but program the robots to react as if they were real.

Has anyone associated with Studio 60 just come out and said it was crap?

Sorkin would NEVER have allowed that to happen. His vision is far too important, and the subject and material of the sketches was vital to the plot. Krazee Kristians was not just a sketch, it was a hard hitting social satire, telling the Truth to America that needed to hear it!

Sarah Paulsen was playing Kristin Chenoweth.

Sorkin can't do comedy, but the stuff that happened between the sketches was just as ridiculous as the sketches themselves. Are you forgetting about brothers who stand in the middle of Afghanistan?

Aaron Sorkin has one subject that he writes about. The power of the word, written and then spoken. In the West Wing, it makes sense to valorise the word because it is via words, in speeches and debates that government gets done. In that case, the words can genuinely make the world a better place. But then he tries to…

Never mind the cameras, why do these people think they can get up to secret shenanigans in a complex made entirely made of transparent walls?!