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There were two really funny series premieres on this week, surprisingly.

I have favourite sitcoms; Friends, Seinfeld, the Symptoms, but I rarely watch others, especially new ones, because when I do, I can mostly predict the jokes, because I are a comedial genious. (Did you see what I did there? All four?)

Michael Rappaport, who I think is cool, is in a new one with some nice touches, but is generally dumb.

But you must check out ‘My Name Is Earl’, with Jason Lee. He’s the ex-skate-boarder who was a Kevin Smith regular for years, and who did a great Azrael in one of my favourite movies, Dogma. He plays a redneck who won the lottery, but was then immediately hit by a car (losing the ticket; it blows away as he’s lying on the road), was on morphine in the hospital, saw Carson Daly on TV talking about karma, and decided he had to right every wrong he’d ever done.

The other series is called ‘Kitchen Confidential’ and it’s about an alcoholic loser, former-celebrity chef who is given a second chance with a new restaurant. It’s considerably more formulaic than Earl, but the lead is funny and the setup is good. Bitty Schram, formerly Sharona of Monk, is the chef’s friend/local food critic. FY yer I, I was a cook (not a chef) for ten years one decade and I nearly gagged on some of the gags, they were that true.

So why did I title this entry ‘Joan of Arcadia’? Because I miss it, goddammit.

Watch the goddam shows.

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