Alan Sepinwall on "Kath and Kim":
Having a laugh at the expense of the ignorant isn't as easy as it looks, as shown by three comedies with low-IQ central characters that premiere over the next two nights: NBC's "Kath & Kim" (tomorrow at 8:30), FX's "Testees" (tomorrow at 10:30) and season two of Comedy Central's "The Sarah Silverman Program" (tonight at 10:30). The latter two succeed intermittently, but "Kath & Kim" is among the most unpleasant viewing experiences of my lifetime.Has Molly Shannon ever done anything funny? All of her recurring SNL characters were annoying as hell. The funniest thing I can think of about her is that aside in the "Curb Your Enthusiasm" pilot, and she wasn't even really directly involved. Posted by Stephen Silver at October 8, 2008 02:28 PMIt is as smug, airless and grating a half-hour as you can possibly spend, the kind of show that requires enormous reservoirs of willpower to avoid turning off. I'll confess that I didn't actually have that much willpower, and that I needed a pep talk from my wife (something about mortgage payments and health insurance) and, eventually, duct tape before I could be kept from using the remote.