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Happy Thanksgiving!
It’s a day when we say thanks, eat a grand feast with family, watch the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade…
and are reminded that Detroit has a professional football team.
Today is a wonderfully chaotic celebration. Delicious food is eaten and entertaining anecdotes are shared. As my mom would say with a grin, it’s a day for “forced family fun.” It’s also a day for surprise fun with friends.
And yes, that includes everybody’s favourite group of friends.
Here’s to you having a “The One With” kind of Thanksgiving!
The Big Man Under Fire
- Frannie’s Turn
- Grace Under Fire
- Cybill
- Dharma & Greg
- Two and a Half Men
- The Big Bang Theory
- Mike & Molly
- Mom
- And Future #1 Comedies To-Be-Created
The man behind-the-curtain of all these sitcom hits is Chuck Lorre.
Clearly, he is the sitcom king of network television. When I’ve been in the audience for live tapings of The Big Bang Theory (including its pilot) and Two and a Half Men (including the series finale), I’ve always looked for Chuck Lorre on the floor. He’s a bonafide TV star. However, the ride hasn’t always been smooth sailing for the mega producer.
(Charlie Sheen and Angus T. Jones, cough-cough)
And as the interview below reveals, Mr. Lorre has faced adversity in many forms, from crazy outbursts from his actors to uptight studio executives.
Speaking of uptight…
That vanity card was probably one of the censored ones.
Justice is (a) Grind
How good is The Grinder?
Let me rephrase that: The Grinder is how good sitcoms do it.
The freshman comedy on Fox starring Rob Lowe (former TV lawyer “The Grinder”) and Fred Savage (a real lawyer) as brothers is the perfect show for this generation. The concept is outrageous, but it is openly made fun of and advanced in pitch-perfect fashion. Lowe and Savage carry the show, but the supporting actors and actresses (family, law firm colleagues and new characters) bring it all together for a sensational sitcom.
“…the most dramatic way possible.”
–The Grinder
Do you need more? I thought so.
And yes (enter a pause with a dramatic turn to you the reader)…this show will sustain as a hit far into the future.
Happy Monday!
Forget left-brained v. right-brained.
Are you a Bluetooth person or a considerate person?
This is one of the great philosophical questions of our time. How do we approach life and its infinite conundrums? Do we value personal space? Do we still value our ever-shrinking privacy?
Please click on the link to play on YouTube
(Written in the appropriate volume) Have a pretty, pretty, pretty good week!
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