September 21, 2004

Bye, George

I just watched the "Seinfeld" re-run in which Jerry and George pitch their sitcom pilot to NBC, and I was struck that there were probably more laughs in any 30-second chunk of the episode than there were in the entire 30 minutes of that other pilot with Jason Alexander- the one for "Listen Up" that aired last night.

No, it wasn't entirely laugh-free- some of the family stuff worked, and for stretches, the fictional version of the Kornheiser/Wilbon partnership- played by Alexander and Malcolm Jamal-Warner- captured the lightning-in-a-bottle chemistry of the real thing. But then it was all ruined when, in the middle of a segment of the show's faux-PTI, Alexander suddenly broke into a song-and-dance number about why he hates soccer. Yecch. I think next Monday I'll watch "The Benefactor" instead.

Posted by Stephen Silver at September 21, 2004 11:39 PM
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I can't even bear to watch JA except on Seinfeld.

I heard surprisingly good things about Joey, though.

I didn't think that had a snowball's chance..

Posted by: zoey at September 22, 2004 10:49 AM
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