Serious Comedy at Aaron Sorkins Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip
In the war of the low-rated backstage-at-Saturday-Night-Live TV shows, there can be only one. And in 2006’s race to viewership mediocrity, Tina Fey’s 30 Rock, which spoofed her time as SNL’s head writer, was Christopher Lambert. And we’re all better for it.
Well, everyone was better for it, except for this guy: Aaron Sorkin.
Despite 30 Rock garnering fewer viewers than Sorkin’s Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, a backstage drama and thinly veiled allegory for the writer’s time on Sports Night and The West Wing, NBC pulled the plug on the show and condemned it to an eternity in this column.
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