okay, NBC, let's talk about it.

All last week, the NBC promos kept saying, "America will be talking about" last night's Studio 60, The Harriet Dinner (Part Two)

Uh, did they mean America would be talking about what an incredibly lame episode it was? How cliché-filled and predictable it was? About how they ended the most cliché-filled show I've seen on television ins years with a fucking Green Day montage at the end?

I love Studio 60. Whenever they're in the writer's room, or the actors are rehearsing a sketch, or Matt is writing, I get this vicarious thrill that reminds me how fun and rewarding it is to perform for a live audience, and how wonderful it is to be part of an ensemble, and how much I'd love to do a show like that in real life. I think the cast -- particularly Stephen Webber and the sleeper hit of the show Timothy Busfield -- is brilliant. There are two shows on television at the moment that I'd kill be be on, and Studio 60 is the other one . . . but man I hope the last two episodes were just an unfortunate lapse in, well, everything.

Memo to the NBC promotion department: if you're going to claim that all of America will be talking about something, you'd better be damn sure they will, and that they'll be doing it for the right reasons.