Let me tell you. I have a new favorite TV show, a comedy specifically. Normally I am a huge fan of The Office, but I have not been able to catch it regularly this season and I’m not really missing it. The new favorite is NBC’s 30 Rock. 30 Rock, a comedy about producing a Saturday Night Live show, is so much better than Studio 60, which has the same premise but is a drama. Some how I think that people who are producing a comedy would have fun and be generally funny at work, but maybe that’s just me.

Now, why I like 30 Rock.

Tracy Morgan is quite possibly the funniest person on TV right now. Steve Carrell is funny, but sometimes it’s painful to watch him, the situations are not funny, but stingingly painful. Tracy Morgan, who plays a similarly named Tracy Jordan, is crazy funny. In last night’s episode, Tracy Morgan/Jordan wants to find religion so if he gets in trouble, he will be less stigmatized by the public. In his search, he tries out for the Church of Proctology, a total jab at the Church of Scientology, where he is hooked up to a device, much like a Scientology e-meter, and Jordan is pouring out his hidden secrets:

I belive the moon doesn’t exist. I believe that vampires are the world’s greatest golfers, but their curse is that they’ll never get to prove it. I believe there are 31 letters in the white alphabet.

You can find the previous passage, with Tracy all wired up at NBC.com (check out section 2 of the video). Plenty of clips are on YouTube as well.

If you haven’t watched it yet, Thursday at 9:30 (Eastern), you won’t be disappointed, plus if you don’t

I’m gonna eat yo family!

I have broken my tv addiction! Normally I would have kicked myself to miss NBC’s The Office, but I have missed it twice in a row. In fact the only TV that I have watched in the past two weeks is the Today show and that’s really more to keep me on track when I get ready in the morning.

7:10 - Finish making lunch 7:15 - Pour cereal 7:25 - Put bowl in dishwasher

It’s very weird to not have my addiction any more. I think I will still hold a little space for Battlestar Galactica though.

Dang it! Sundays are really boring. And Sunday nights are even more boring! I broke down and watched TV. Shame on me. I think it will be a whole lot easier during the week. I was pretty “read” out by the evening.

I will say that trying to find something to watch on TV on September 10th is really hard. A whole bunch of 9|11 stuff, and while I know it’s good to memorialize the events, the dramatic tugging on the heart strings is a little too much for me. Call me cold hearted, call me un-american, but I don’t think that we need to have so many dramatic reinterpretations of the events.

Stepping off soap box.