The only times otherwise-good movies or television series become seriously annoying is when they ignore their own reality. So right now, watching Studio 60 on DVR, I am watching the fourth Nancy Grace incarnation in two weeks.
I've seen Nancy Grace for real (beyond description), a Nancy Grace character on "Boston Legal" (inconsequential), Nancy Grace on "SNL" (pretty funny, actually), and now a sketch of a "Nancy Grace Sketch" on the "Studio 60" show which is part of "Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip."
The problem? This latest Nancy Grace, as presented on the show-within-the-show, is beyond not funny. And the entire cast and crew is laughing more pathetically than the cast of Fox's NFL pre-game show. They're telling me it's funny. I'm saying they left out the funny.
I'm watching the sketch, everyone is cracking up, and there's no funny.
Here's the Star Wars theory of life. Tell me a starship can travel at light speed, and I'm on board, the laws of physics be damned. But present Han Solo as a space stud and then have him act like a wuss, and I'm not buying.
Tell me something is funny, then present something un-funny, and I get off.
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