TMC
07-08-2023, 01:00 AM
https://www.nathanrabin.com/happy-place/2021/5/5/the-mesmerizingly-mortifying-legacy-of-studio-60-on-the-sunset-strip
Having suffered through the entirety of Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip as the first entry when My Year of Flops mutated into My World of Flops, I knew that I could easily get 2000 words of literary gold out of a single unforgettable moment of unhinged television drama from the episode “The Wrap Party”
I did not realize that there were two other subplots in “The Wrap Party” every bit as unhinged, unintentionally hilarious and utterly damning as the scene where cast-member Tom (Nate Corddry) responds to his cartoonishly oblivious mother’s question about Studio 60’s “skits” by self-righteously insisting that “Skits are when the football players dress up as the cheerleaders and think it’s wit” whereas sketches are “where some of the best minds in comedy come together and put on a national television show that’s watched and talked about by millions of people!”
Having suffered through the entirety of Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip as the first entry when My Year of Flops mutated into My World of Flops, I knew that I could easily get 2000 words of literary gold out of a single unforgettable moment of unhinged television drama from the episode “The Wrap Party”
I did not realize that there were two other subplots in “The Wrap Party” every bit as unhinged, unintentionally hilarious and utterly damning as the scene where cast-member Tom (Nate Corddry) responds to his cartoonishly oblivious mother’s question about Studio 60’s “skits” by self-righteously insisting that “Skits are when the football players dress up as the cheerleaders and think it’s wit” whereas sketches are “where some of the best minds in comedy come together and put on a national television show that’s watched and talked about by millions of people!”