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[shadowkat]

So, I'm watching the season finale of The Office - because Catherine Tate (Donna Noble - Doctor Who) is supposed to be guest-starring on it (not for everyone else - which includes Jim Carrey, Will Arnett, James Spader, Kathy Bates, etc.), and I see one of the kids I went to undergrad with pop up as a supervising producer. He was a stand-up comedian in 1990s playing low-life comedy clubs then switched to sitcom writing.

And when did James Spader get paunchy and old?

As an aside The Community's season finale was far more creative and funnier than The Big Bang Theory's which was incredibly cliche. Odd, considering all season long I laughed harder at Big Bang. Sitcoms...they really an inconsistent breed.

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[rpowell.livejournal.com]

And when did James Spader get paunchy and old?

The man is fifty-one years old. You didn't expect him to stay young forever, did you?

[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

51 years old is not old. And I happen to know some attractive 51 year olds (*cough*JamesMarsters*cough* and Anthony Stewart Head both come to mind.) Although Marsters may just be 49 or 50. I think 50...I know he's six to seven years older than I am.

[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

Of course the fact that I'm about six to seven years away from the big 5-1 myself may have something to do with my attitude regarding it. ;-) Well, that's unless the world ends tomorrow....

[rpowell.livejournal.com]

(*cough*JamesMarsters*cough* and Anthony Stewart Head both come to mind.) Although Marsters may just be 49 or 50. I think 50...I know he's six to seven years older than I am.

He's 48 years old. He'll be 49 in August. Hey . . . some people age well and some don't. That's it.

[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

So five years older than me.

And, exactly.

[embers-log.livejournal.com]

Gee I would have taped The Office if I had known Catherine Tate would be on it... but I never watch the Office (I've never found office politics to be cute or funny...). But you're right, this last Big Bang Theory wasn't cute or funny either.
oh well.

[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

The Office was actually better than I expected - but still cringe-worthy in places. The interviews work - subtle and make fun of real things. Jim Carey plays a guy who keeps talking about the Finger Lakes. Tate plays a candidate who is Kathy Bates, the District Manager's, best friend. The funniest scenes? Are with Kathy Bates. Oddly enough.

I wouldn't say you missed much. It wasn't a laugh out loud riot.
But funnier than Big Bang.

I'm not doing great on the sitcom front. Raising Hope elicited a slight chuckle. And I got a teeny laugh out of last week's Community, but mostly it was just sad. Big Bang...bored me and I cringed during most of it. So...right now the Office probably was the best. But I admittedly am not a fan of the sitcom genre generally speaking. I find Doctor Who, The Good Wife, True Blood, Vamp Diaries, In Plain Sight, and Game of Thrones to be funnier. Which probably means that I prefer dry wit to jokes.