Thursday night is a crazy night for everyone, I know. My DVR comes this close to exploding weekly with the marathon I put it through.  I watch 7 shows, which amounts to 6 hours of television in one night. It’s crazy and ridiculous and from what I hear, everyone has this predicament. And I am going to suggest you add to it.

No, not 30 Rock. You should know by now that you’re missing out big time by not watching this show, and if no one else has convinced you, I certainly won’t be able to. (But if you’re not watching, what is wrong with you?) No, I’m talking about two teeny-tiny fledgling shows no one’s watching and everyone should be — Community and Ace of Cakes.

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Look, NBC is still on my shit list for a variety of reasons, not the least of which is the cancellation of Life, and let’s not even talk about the entire 10:00 hour. However, I will say that the Thursday night lineup they have this season is the best one they’ve had in years. I’m in love with The Office, 30 Rock, and Parks and Recreation. Now, having only seen the first episode of Community, I have a good feeling about this show.

So what makes me love this episode so much? Well, the fact that Joel McHale wears track pants with a blazer certainly doesn’t hurt, nor does the fact that John Oliver from The Daily Show is in the cast, as is Pete Campbell’s wife. These things are all nice, but it’s Abed (Dani Pudi) who made me snort my soda.

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Sebastian’s back Guest-clacking for us again, after writing about COLBERT in space….

Admit it, when you read that Chevy Chase is going to star in a new comedy this fall on NBC you thought the following things:

• a gopher from Caddyshack
• Saturday Night Live
• NBC sucks and will never ever get away from #4 in the ratings
• why didn’t you bring back Life you %$&§*** morons?!?
• die Leno, die!

But let’s get back to Community and why it made me giddy like a schoolgirl when I saw the preview.

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Though Obama released Bush Era torture memos ten days ago, they’re still all anyone in the news media (both real and fake) has been able to talk about since. I can’t really say why. Perhaps they take a very long time to read? Perhaps people are comforted by finding something even more depressing than the economy? Whatever the reason, torture was the name of the game at Comedy Central, a high order, considering that even I have issues joking about torture. That’s right. I’ll make off-color jokes about 9/11 but torture? Torture is a challenge.

And that’s why I leave such things to the professionals.
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(Week of January 19, 2008)

Hey, kids! It’s time for a quick round-up of highlights from this week’s episodes of The Daily Show and The Colbert Report. Barack Obama was sworn in as president on Tuesday, so it was no surprise that the entire week’s hot topic was the Inauguration. TDS did a live show, but not too much super-special came from it. I did, however, greatly enjoy the following day’s John Oliver report form the Mall, in which he touched upon subjects like the n-word and making out with various men and women slowly freezing to death.

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(Week of December 8, 2008)

Hey, kids! It’s time for a quick round-up of highlights from this week’s episodes of The Daily Show and The Colbert Report. This was an extra-special week, as we won’t be getting any new episodes until 2009. We also said good-bye to a few old friends, the weirdly scary Rob Riggle and Alan Colmes, who’s kind of scary in his own way. Here’s a fun fact about this photo of Rob Riggle: It’s actually what people see before they die.

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(Week of November 17, 2008)

Hey, kids! It’s time for a quick round-up of highlights from this week’s episodes of The Daily Show and The Colbert Report. This has been a pretty solid week, thanks to a handful of beautiful interviews. From people like Sir David Frost of the Frost/Nixon interviews to Paul Simon to Tom Brokaw, both Jon and Stephen have scored four days of guests that really should have nothing to do with Comedy Central. Come on. Honestly.

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