The show has gotten ridiculously good in the last couple of months (not that it was horrible at the beginning, but it took some time to gel.)

30 Rock had me from the pilot's opening scene where Liz buys ALL the hotdogs and gives them out to disgusted New Yorkers to the theme of 'Pam, the Morbidly Obese, Overly Confident Women'. It was such a concise introduction and I get itchy crazy with queue-jumpers; it was like they had made this particular revenge fantasy for me.

Heh. Yeah, it had me from that scene too. I gave it a shot because of Tina Fey, but I was so hooked from the beginning, especially once Jack was introduced.

I know! It seems like the story of this show is "such dramatic turnaround" but it has always been funny. The pacing of individual episodes has improved but clearly the potential for comedic greatness was there from the hot dog scene.

I think they take the idea of a drama and mock the hell out of it.

Colbert was adorable last night with Paulina Poreskova (I know I got the spelling wrong). Also, I love how Ric Ocasek has become a recurring charcter on the show (it reminds a little of how Tom Petty was always turning up on It's Gary Shandling's Show - there's a show I'd love DVDs of).

I keep wanting to try The Office, but it's been on so long, and I'm too lazy to catch up on who's who and all that.

We just started watching within the last couple of months. About the only thing you should know going in is that Jim and Pam have unrequited feelings for each other. The rest is easily picked up as you go along, without any loss of enjoyment.

It's Gary Shandling's Show

That was some great tv. I've often wondered how it would hold up.

I've watched S1 of the US Office and like the show a lot, but haven't had time to keep up with it. I loved the UK version like crazy. In fact, after watching S2 of the UK version in one fell swoop, I decided to quit the job I had at the time. I couldn't bear the idea of going into work the next day, so I called in sick and spent the day applying for a new job. Anyway, at a recent wedding, I told this story to a British friend of mine, who dropped that he knows Stephen Merchant, but they always have awkward interactions because they don't know each other well enough to have anything to talk about and are too British to break the ice. He said that now he'll have something to talk with Merchant about, and I've had a little bit of a thrill imagining that interaction (which, of course, isn't really that interesting, basically being a story about some American calling in sick so he could look for work elsewhere, but in my mind, it's a hell of a story).

This is the theme to Gary's show
This is the theme to Gary's show
Gary wrote me a letter and asked if I could write his theme song...

BWAH! Sean, I was thinking the SAME THING!

Possibly my favorite theme song ever.