At Monday night’s show, Noah and I showed a clip of NBC’s alternate broadcast of Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, normally only seen in Hawaii and Alaska. It’s pretty interesting. Apparently, outside the continental 48, the show is more of a sitcom.

Personally, I think the show a lot more fun to watch this way.

Qandahar? Stillborn babies? Prayer in the writer’s room? THAT’S SHOWBIZ, BABY!

Later in that same very same episode, Matthew Perry (who plays the drug-addicted producer of the late-night sketch comedy show) tries to hire a rogue paramilitary group to go into Afghanistan and give the hostage takers ransom money in exchange for Tom’s brother and the two other soldiers.  

It’s just like real life! Lorne Michaels did the same thing when Black Hawk Down happened in Somalia. Totally saved Melanie Hutsell’s little brother.

Seriously, if this show gets picked up for a second season, they should just change the name to: Studio West Wing on the West Wing Strip.

Time Magazine has a story this week about the “new action heroes” of American politics: Michael Bloomberg and Arnold Schwarzenegger.

This is the picture from the article:

Which is eerily similar to a picture I found of their fathers, taken 55 years ago in Austria:

Fun fact about the Governor of California #1: His dad was a Nazi. 

Fun fact about the Governor of California #2: His wife is a Kennedy and also the cryptkeeper.