Sir Humphrey Appleby, “Prime Minister, in government, a clarification is not to make things CLEAR; it's to put oneself IN the clear!”-Jim Hacker: Cabinet minister's loyalty- his fear of job loss is slightly bigger then his hope to pinch mine.

I watched a show listening for Canned Laughter. 'Frasier' has it, but I never noticed before. When a show isn't funny, the canned laughter is the only thing you do notice. When a show is really good, you pay the canned stuff no attention.

New Republic Lee Siegel, "Everybody Hates Chris"..It's actually something very rare on television, even rarer in the movies, and almost non-existent in contemporary fiction. It's the wise, tender, funny portrait of a poor kid. -Tabacco: LOL