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L'autista
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That would be pretty cool. I bet Greg would have stories to tell.
I only saw on his FB feed that he's currently on a diet to lose his pot belly.

Coincidentally, I finished watching the DVD series of the brilliant but short-lived The Job last night. I haven't seen the show since it's on-air run back in 2001. Damn, that show was funnier than 98% of what's come out in the past decade. It's held up extremely well.
 

Martin

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I only saw on his FB feed that he's currently on a diet to lose his pot belly.

Coincidentally, I finished watching the DVD series of the brilliant but short-lived The Job last night. I haven't seen the show since it's on-air run back in 2001. Damn, that show was funnier than 98% of what's come out in the past decade. It's held up extremely well.
Well kept secret? Never heard of it.
 

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L'autista
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Things are getting out of control in here
Are you tired of the monkey-fighting snakes on the Monday-to-Friday plane?
http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/11/04/india.netherlands.airplane/index.html

Well kept secret? Never heard of it.
ßöмßäяðîëя;2753156 said:
The Job, what is this, I've not heard of it...
It kind of is a secret:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Job_(TV_series)

My wife didn't like the show when it came out. She wasn't a fan of Denis Leary as a comedian, so it was a hard sell. But over the years she's really come to like Rescue Me -- which is really a longer, more dramatic version of the denser, funnier The Job.

After watching all the DVDs just recently, she thought it was hilarious. Too smart and challenging for network television, which is why it got canned. (9/11 didn't help either -- which ironically enabled the show to live on as Rescue Me on cable.)

The head writers are Leary and the guy who also wrote The Larry Sanders Show in addition to Rescue Me. The Larry Sanders Show being everything that succeeded where Curb Your Enthusiasm failed miserably (Martin can back me up on that ;) .

Not much even on YouTube on the show. But here's a bit of an episode where two police precincts fight to dump a dead body on the other:
 

Martin

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It kind of is a secret:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Job_(TV_series)

My wife didn't like the show when it came out. She wasn't a fan of Denis Leary as a comedian, so it was a hard sell. But over the years she's really come to like Rescue Me -- which is really a longer, more dramatic version of the denser, funnier The Job.

After watching all the DVDs just recently, she thought it was hilarious. Too smart and challenging for network television, which is why it got canned. (9/11 didn't help either -- which ironically enabled the show to live on as Rescue Me on cable.)

The head writers are Leary and the guy who also wrote The Larry Sanders Show in addition to Rescue Me. The Larry Sanders Show being everything that succeeded where Curb Your Enthusiasm failed miserably (Martin can back me up on that ;) .
:D

Not a big fan of Denis Leary, he's like the yelling comedian. Yelling about stuff I have little interest in. But maybe I'll check it out.
 

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Don't move, don't speak, even whisper. There's something happenin' but don't be scared. I'm too smooth, you never see me coming. I'm never in a hurry, I'm just movin' fast.
 

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:D

Not a big fan of Denis Leary, he's like the yelling comedian. Yelling about stuff I have little interest in. But maybe I'll check it out.
A big part of the comedy in the show's writing is about lying and getting caught in it. Which isn't so much the attraction, as it's in the execution. That said, the cast is fantastic, the writing is dense. It was easily one of my favorite shows of the past decade.
 

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