NOT FUNNY.

And then they'll pull back the corners of their eyes with their (remaining) fingertips and be all "ching chong bing bong" because tired racial humor = EDGY!

Artie Lange - sometimes funny

Season 1 was the Groening/Simon/Brooks, whatever that means to you. Sam Simon hires the Army Man staff as writers, most notably, George Meyer and John Swartzwelder.

Season 2 was still crediting them, but Al Jean & Mike Reiss were doing much of their work. The show starts to get funny.

Al & Mike take over totally in season 3 and were scared as first-time showrunners, demanding as many rewrites as possible. Full on funny.

After season 4, Al & Mike left to do The Critic, which I never watched...because...Jon Lovitz NOT FUNNY

Dave Mirkin took over the Simpsons in seasons 5 & 6. Mirkin is kinda funny, but hits you over the head with the joke (followed by lengthy explanations of each joke on the commentary track).

Mirkin was the man behind Chris Elliot's Get a Life, which I only thought was funny in its final season.

Even worse was that John Swartzwelder, an adamant supporter of smoker's rights, was no longer allowed to smoke in the rewrite room as of season 6, so he began submitting scripts form home and not attending rewriting sessions.

Mirkin lost out to newcomers Bill Oakly & Josh Weinstein, who worked with the writers at the Harvard lampoon long before any of them got jobs as writers in tv. Bill & Josh were hardcore Simpsons fans and wanted to overthrow Mirkin's big-dumb reign and return it to Al & Mike's style, which they did greatly in nearly all of season 7 and most of season 8.

Ironically, Al & Mike returned for like 3 episodes in season 8, which ended up being mirkin-esque duds (eg the x-files ep)

Everything at this point ranges from excellent to good. But...

Mike Scully took over after that, and was extremely hit or miss (mostly miss). He lasted from seasons 9-12. Anything after season 10 makes me violently angry.

Fans complained greatly about Scully. Al Jean took the show back over, but by then, the writing staff had MUCH turnover, so there was no saving it, even with george meyer on staff.

The movie is going to fucking suckkkkk

New SNL

I feel like they're not telling jokes, they're telling me they're telling jokes.

are you suggesting the former representative enjoyed his hot lunches, hot carls, and glass-bottom boats served up by strapping young bucks?

-- kingfish prætor (jdsalmo...)

SCREECH FOLEY TAG TEAM

-- David R. (quoteidio...)

now, now, some things are even too kinky for the bebearded Screech. Man has _some_ standards.

-- kingfish prætor (jdsalmo...)

-- Tuomas (tuomas.alh...)

MAD PROPZ

FREAKSHOW. dude from home movies and david cross on the unfunniest thing i've seen in eons. since mind of mencia.

David Cross is on Freakshow? :( I thought he was just going to branch into kidshow/kidmovie "angry principal" characters ala his roles in Curious George & She's The Man. Unless he plays a cranky uncle or principal in Freakshow, I'm disappointed.

It didn't quite work.

-- researching ur life (goforgrad...), October 9th, 2006.

I swear we were just talking about this on another thread. So true.