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BOYS IN THE HOOD.(My Name Is Earl)(Everybody Hates Chris)(Television Program Review)

The New Yorker

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The sitcom is always being prematurely buried. In the last couple of years, as "Friends" and "Everybody Loves Raymond" departed from the TV landscape, the words heard at the genre's funeral were alternately "alas" and "good riddance." (Viewers who need to cling to "Raymond" can still see it in syndication twenty-four hours a day on every channel except CNN.) The supposed remaining bright spot was CBS's "Two and a Half Men," a show that seems more dependent than most on the cattle prod of its laugh track, and one that I have watched some two dozen times with a sporting interest: I want to be present when Charlie Sheen demonstrates that he has more than one facial ...

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