I really want an Aaron Sorkin Cancel Culture movie, and it somehow involves Russiagate. I'm just putting this out there for the universe.

31:00 “I don’t think people are gonna go back and listen to this podcast 10 years later” um, oops

It’s very amusing to compare this to 30 Rock, which premiered at roughly the same time. For one thing, especially in retrospect, these shows don’t seem like contemporaries at all. Studio 60 feels like a 90s project. The most important difference was that early on 30 Rock figured out that the show within the show was bad and had no pretenses about it. Meanwhile Studio 60 never gave up the idea that their stupid sketch comedy show is not only funny but actually important and edgy when to the viewer it so plainly isn’t any of those things.

Will should talk like the start of this video all the time, man.

Sorkin autocorrects to Dork In

Charlie Wilson's War is some histrionic trash but Hoffman's rant in the CIA office should be in the Smithsonian

they probably only watched a handful of episodes for this but god I wish they had seen the episode where DL Hughly takes Chandler to a black comedy club to see an up and coming comic that they could potentially hire and I swear to god the guy they originally go to see starts doing some unga bunga shit on stage and Chandler's whole demeanor is like how dare you waste my time with this while DL Hughly is profusely apologizing, like begging for forgiveness. Sorkin is one of those people who should be absolutely banned from writing any characters who aren't exactly like him

they need to break down the Sorkin Entourage episode

54:48 “she’s accosted by a Tom of Finland drawing” lmao

More people know Gilbert and Sillivan from fucking Mass Effect 2 than actual Gilbert and Sullivan, and the alien singing it is like 85. Jesus Sorkin does not have his finger on the pulse of culture.

D L Hughley's daughters both have men's names. Sorkin on the company teat

Sorkin also makes sitcom writers smart, but not funny in Bring the Ricardo’s. He writes Lucille Ball as a tough as nails genius who is not funny at all off screen.

It's nighttime for half the year no matter where you live

55:27 literally kramer’s street toughs

Dammit so it was THIS episode that makes me think to myself every time I see a poster for Women Talking, I always say to myself “Women Do Be Talking Like That”…

Every time Matt does that Common commercial it’s still funny

Felix really loves coming back to that Tom of Finland line huh

Love when felix brings up kate upton

Nice ep # drops

I have never seen Studio 60 so when i saw the image for this vid I first thought it was the shitty knock off of 30 Rock from an alternate universe

Felix reviewing The Interpreter starring Nicole Kidman when?

17:28 based moment from matt there

Soar, pimp!

Remember seeing that epic trailer for the Social Network and then watching it and realizing that it was Sorkin all the way through and not even Trent Reznor and David Fincher could save it?

A small nitpick, but Modern Major General comes from Pirates of Penzance, not HMS Pinafore

At last

Does Felix not like *"Collateral?"*

Listening to this episode in 2024 and the discussion of Joe Biden is just as true as ever.

30 rock has an episode where one charactwr thinks their skit is too smart and funny and its actually just shit. Much better show

The Joe Biden part feels bad to hear this far in.

Hey, I loved John Belushi's deli guy, its charmingly offensive!

55:35 is this where the gay mafia shit came from?

Those Biden comments did not age well

It’s amazing how a show with such a great cast could just be such garbage

We absolutely will come back 10 years later, especially for reading series 👀