Comedy Night Done Right-ish

Let me start off by saying shame on NBC Saint Louis for showing special news coverage on the Taste of Saint Louis and some weird mom, baby thing for the first hour of NBC’s Comedy Night Done Right.   Now I don’t mind so much that I missed the Half Hour Weekend Update at seven, but forcing me to miss Parks and Recreation and being forced to have to wait to watch it the next day on the Internet all for some stupid mom, baby special is abominable.   They’re just lucky they pulled it this past week instead of when 30 Rock was going to premiere because they might have received a pretty strongly worded email.   Anyway I hate to say but watching the Parks and Recreation on the Internet the next day was the only real highlight of the night.

I have to say Parks and Recreation has been stepping up their game this season and keeping their episodes intriguing, fairly tight, and of course, awkwardly hilarious.   The whole set up this week had Leslie and Tom as judges for the Miss Pawnee Beauty Pageant.   Of course the hottest girl in the show, who happened to have zero talent in the talent competition and zero class all together, came to be the front runner, with Leslie pulling for the more matronly looking of the girls.   All of it ended in a slight nod to 12 Angry Men with Leslie desperately trying to convince the judges to very little avail.   I especially loved the former beauty pageant winning judge who was pulling for the hottie and admitted her talent had been packing a suitcase.   We also get to see Louis C.K. popping back in as the dim bulb police officer now trying to win Leslie’s affections.   This is all done pretty cute and will be pretty fun to watch throughout the rest of the season.

Now on the more dull side of the comedy spectrum, I wasn’t overly blown away by the nights episode of The Office.   Frankly it was hard for them to make a whole episode about who should get raises or not funny and they did try their best.   But when that is what the whole episode is devoted to it gets to be a bit much when that’s all they are willing to do for the whole half hour.   Though this is so far about the only episode I really haven’t liked for the season they are still doing pretty good for themselves and I know not everyone is going to be a winner.

Now for Community.   Oh Community, how you strive to be better and better and yet you only inch your way there episode by episode.   I will admit, this weeks episode was stepping it up and was working a little bit better for me.   We got a little bit more going with the Arab kid and find out some more stuff about his background.   But it sadly only consists of the old plot device of the parent that doesn’t believe in the kids actual dream and wants them to work in the family business.   Though I will give it to him that the documentary he filmed was creepily clever and funny.   The only problem is they still don’t know to do with the myriad of side characters they have and the jittery girl and the in her thirties black woman still had nothing to do.   I’m expecting they’ll get more attention in later episodes but right now they are highly unutilized in dull side plots.   I think one had to do with how a person sneezed like a girl or something, I don’t know.   Just get 30 Rock back and get this definitely back to Comedy Night Done Right.