A New Saturday Feature---"Who asked Ya, Harris??!"

Every Saturday, I will put in my two cents (provided I got my Unemployment check) on cultural and/or political issues.

TODAY---What's worth watching on TV these days ?(or trolling for diamonds afloat in a cesspool)

1) Everybody Hates Chris---Quite simply THE funniest sitcom on. Has been for the past 5 years, or so. Sharp, clever, imaginative, wittily edited, and a solid gold cast, with a special nod to Tichina Arnold who plays the young Chris Rock's mom---a phenomenal comedienne.
Throw in Rock's hilarious narration and Froggy the Gremlin (ask your parents--or grandparents!) asides, and you get the comedy show that the Emmy's apparently never heard of, being on what Jesse Jackson once astutely called a "Plantation Station"---the CW Network.

2) Worst Week(CBS)(currently not on, awaiting renewal one supposes). Superbly crafted, fast-moving and often uproarious travails of a young man as he deals with his engagement, marriage and impending fatherhood. Problem is he's a well-intentioned, likeable, one-man wrecking ball who turns every task and thing he touches into a disaster. He makes Capt. Hazelwood of the Exxon Valdeez seem like a crack seaman and environmentalist.


3) Flight of the Conchords---Monty Python meets Beavis and Butthead--best way to describe it, but ya gotta watch it!

4) The Chocolate News (Com Central---on hiatus)---I expected a train wreck and was overjoyed seeing the brilliant David Alan Grier given free rein to do his multiple characters in a hilarious send-up of black culture and politics.

5) The Root of All Evil(Com Central---on hiatus)Lewis Black is the judge as each week a pair of A-list comics play lawyers defending a particular institution or current mania as the 'root of all evil.'
The lines are, much more often than not, hilarious, incisive and insightful and the stand-up guys and gals deliver them brilliantly.

6)The Sarah Silverman Program--- If you have no problem with cuddly, adorable sick puppy Sarah Silverman's aesthetic, which often delves heavily in scatology---and then sometimes really gets tasteless---counterpoint to her sweet, ingenue persona--- you'll find this show inventive, bold and imaginative, even though you may question your own sensibilties for laughing so hard.

Too Early to Call, But Seem To Have Potential:

Head Case and Party Down, both on HBO right now.

Buh-bye!!