It's fun to laugh

I am between funnies right now. After work I watched disc two of the first season of The Extras, a funny series by Ricky Gervais, the creator of The Office (the British one). My favorite bit was when the Ricky Gervais character when into Patrick Stewart's trailer on the set of a movie, and tried to give him a script that he had written. I guess I should explain that the main characters are extras in movies, and each episode has an actual famous person as a guest star. So anyhow, Patrick Stewart told Rick Gervais that it is important for actors to also be writers, and he described a screenplay that he was working on, in which he would play a character similar to Professor Xavier in the X-Men movies, but he would use his powers to make women's clothes fall off. When Gervais finally gave Stewart the script, and asked him to show it to people he knew in TV, Stewart said, "I'll make it so." Gervais said he had never seen Star Trek: The Next Generation, and it was funny.

Anyhow, I said that I am between funnies. I bought the current issue of TV guide, because tonight's episode of My Name is Earl is "laugh and sniff". There is a card with several places to scratch and sniff at designated times during the episode. The I will get to see The Office (the American one), 30Rock, and Scrubs. And all of those are usually pretty funny. I sure hope so anyway.