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Andre Braugher, who more than a decade ago starred in Homicide: Life On the Street.

I agree: It's a funny and warm comedy about genuine relationships, not over the top as Everbody Loves Raymond could be.

Yes, Andre Braugher, thank-you.

His poor relationship with his father is already so rich with dimensions!

And Ray beating up the Hulk air toy because his life is out of control was incredible.

And Scott driving that car around the block!
Satisfaction for everyone in the world in that moment.

Oh, man.
sigh

Reminds me of us -

I watched Avatar over the weekend. I'm planning on posting a long and detailed review on my blog, but here's the short version:

The first three-quarters or so renewed my faith in the possibilities of cinema, but it comes undone at the end because a genre movie is only as good as its villains. I'd still recommend it, though.

Just finished watching the last episode of Misfits. It's a SciFi comedy drama that aired on the UK channel E4 that lasted 6 episodes. A 2nd "season" has already been greenlit. If you don't mind trying to understand the different accents, I recommend it.

Misfits trailer

Been watching tons of stuff lately which ofcourse I can't remember right now.

DEXTER! I bought the first 3 seasons and have watched the first 2. I love it.

Caught up with Sanctuary.

Recent films I've seen? The Spanish Prisoner, Wolf, Jennifer's Body(couldn't resist the Fox), Unforgiven, Alice in Wonderland (Disney), Jumanji, Patton(great movie), Dirty Dozen, The Informers. Good stuff.

Jorge, you'll love season three of Dexter. It feels a little slow at first but the build-up is really great. Some great acting performances.

Jennifer's Body - what did you think? Knowing we share similar "tastes" ( ), will I like it?

Patton - one of those great movies I rewatch every few years. You can't help but act like him (George C. Scott's portrayal of Patton) afterwards.

Community on NBC ... it's getting better and better ... Danny Pudi is great ...

Hey Cobalt! Jennifer's Body? I mean drink a few beers and watch it. They never show too much but get close...you know how it is. If you don't feel like thinking and you feel like drinking I'd say do it.

LOL @ the Patton comment. My wife told me I was talking like him for a few days after I saw it.

Now that I'm all old and stuff (with a pregnant wife at home), I don't really go out on Saturday nights anymore, and on the rare occassion we do (to dinne or a movie or something) we're not out late. It's weird for me to even type that, trust me. I don't think I missed going out on a Saturday night from age 14-27.

Anyway, lately I've been in on Saturday nights and have started to watch Saturday Night Live again. And I have to tell you--this is the funniest the show has ever been in its entire history. Maybe its a generation thing, but the 70's, 80's, 90's and beginning of this decade all had their moments but none of them are even close to how funny the current SNL cast is. Its been this way for a few years, I know, because I've seen some clips online. But about 80% of the sketches are falldown on the floor funny. The recent Blake Lively and Taylor Swift appearances were hysterical (Charles Barkley sucked though but hey, that's tough to work with).

I would have never thought I'd be at home watching SNL again on Saturday Night like I did when I was 12 or 13, but here I am. And thankfully, its pretty damn funny.

PS - on the Jennifer's Body comment. I just might do that!

And yeah, that's hysterical you were acting like Patton afterwards. Its all in the way he says things and the sentences almost crack like a whip. "Disss--MISSED!!!" When he gets out and starts directing traffics of the tanks near the end its just hysterical. I think its one of the great acting portrayals in cinema history.

LOL@ Cobie. Accepting getting old is a good thing. Same here. I was a party animal up until about 27 also. 28-31 things slowed down a bit but not too much(still would hit restuarant bars and such). 32-34...i am falling asleep by 11pm and stay home much more. The economy didn't help the last 3 years either.

Sushi is now a luxury that we eat a few times a year...cause for me to get full on sushi i need to spend atleast $30 on myself.

Hence, I've been watching LOTS of movies.

Continuing the military theme I saw Kelly's Heroes last weekend. I got to see Australia (beautiful), The Big Sleep (Bogey and a bunch of hot chicks), and I'm currently watching Leatherheads. Not a big fan of plastic surgery Renee...and so far it's only had a few funny partys. eh.

I don't watch much TV, but I do make an effort to watch "Attack of the Show" on a regular basis...want a show that celebrates geekiness? well this is it.

For the first time since season 1, I am watching Lost as it happens.

Been watching lots of movies, mostly older stuff from my collection, most recently I rewatched 30 days of Night. Enjoyable movie, but I haven't rwad the graphic novel its based on (gotta check that out)

I'm guessing you watched tonight's episode? Though it wasn't particularly strong, it had it's moments. Did you see that segment at the end of the news with Kristen Wiig and Fred Armison playing those singers who wing all their songs? I laughed so hard that I cried! The material itself is funny, but moreso Fred and Kristen playing off each other and struggling to keep a straight face! Loved that one and the (at least one) other time they did it!

Update: Looked it up online, and the skit is called "Garth and Kat". You can find it here on Hulu!

I was laughing so hard when it aired on Saturday that I was actually crying a little. You're totally right that its not that the skit is funny by nature, its just that Wiig and Armison keep making each other laugh! And usually both of them are the ones that never break character. They couldn't even look at each other by the end of the skit. Then Seth Myers couldn't help cracking a smile the rest of his bit, which carried over into Keenan Thomas's bit as well. It was cool, like an electricity was going for the next few minutes after Wiig and Armison.

Kristen Wiig is hysterically funny. She might be the funniest SNL female cast member of all time. There's at least always 2-3 hysterically funny Kristen Wiig moments every Saturday.

I was also crying with laughter during the Andy Samburg / Rahm Emmanuel bit. It was awesome--he played it completely strait, just the way we (the public) pictures Emmanuel to be. Great stuff.

Lately I've been addicted to a group of documentaries collectively called the "Up Series".

In 1963, a group of English 7-year olds from different backgrounds were interviewed on topics ranging from the class system to race relations to gender issues. The conceit was that these children would be representatives of the generation who would be in power in the year 2000. The initial program was called "7 Up".

The same group was interviewed 7 years later at age 14, and thus started a series that could very easily be called the first "reality series," as subsequent entries visited the same group at ages 21, 28, 35, 42, and 49, with "56 Up" currently in preproduction.

I'm up to the 35 episode and am just astounded at what a beautiful experiment this series is. It's like a stone was skipped through time, allowing you just the briefest touch points as you watch these fourteen people grow in ways that for some you could have well predicted at age 7, but for others you never could have imagined.

I'm not doing it justice, but it's good, good stuff.

Community rules!

30 Rock, anyone?

Where are you watching the "Up Series," Ex? It sounds amazing ... like a longitudinal psychological study ... I'd like to check it out ...

Yeah, Community rules! 30 Rock is great too, but I don't watch it faithfully like Community or the Office or Parks and Recreation ... I tend to save up a bunch of 30 Rocks and watch them all at once ...

I've been renting them from Netflix (though if you have the service, they can actually be watched online on the Netflix site). You're right about the longitudinal study comparison... the director, Michael Apted, admits on the commentary that it probably wasn't until about 14 years in that he realized the series was no longer just a political statement about class divisions, but really about the human experience as a whole. I think you'd really like it, Sharky.

I mentioned the series to my friend today, and it turns out she's a big fan and has the first few series on dvd, so hopefully I'll be checking it out very soon ... thanks for posting about it!

The latest Community (Physical Eduation) had me laughing very hard. It's actually replaced 30 Rock as my favorite comedy...and I love 30 Rock.

The 7UP series sounds amazing.

The History Boys

On a bit of an intermission but so far, blows away carpe diems and such. Not yet "To Sir With Love," but funnier.