31.   Television comedy is the comedy of commercials, compromise, and celebrity where seven digit salaries are the pay-off for smoothing the edges and straightening the curves.

32.   The most enduring situation around which television comedies have been built is the family unit, in one form or another.

33.   The proportion of viewers admitting that they get their politics from television comedy may not be overwhelming.

34.   The television comedy, set at the time of the Civil War, has drawn protests from African-American leaders who believe it makes light of slavery.

35.   The starting point is the truth that television comedy is not created equal.

36.   The wicked and stylish half-hour television comedy about a scabrous Hollywood producer, on the Fox network, received some of the best critical reviews of the new season.

37.   Were it not for Shadyac, Carrey might still be doing television sketch comedy.

38.   What often makes the best television comedies work, Burrows said, is longevity.

39.   Yet her material at the downtown house was extremely mild, even by the standards set by the stand-up comics who are the spine of television comedy these days.

40.   Director-writer Frankel, in fact, comes from television comedy, and it shows.