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Television IT
is complete mayhem when someone applies the brakes to the
freewheeling and hedonistic life of a rich jingle composer. Two
and A Half Men every Thursday at 7 P.M. on Star World revolves
around the life of a wealthy writer Charlie (Charlie Sheen). His
Casanova life comes to a halt when his control-freak brother Alan
moves in with him who is facing a divorce and has no other place
to go. The brother has a lazy, fat school-going son Jake, who
alternates between his two parents. Complicating the matters is
Charlie and Alan’s self-obsessed mother and their somewhat
neurotically infatuated neighbour Rose, who would go to any length
to be with Charlie. The conflicting lifestyles of the characters
results in a laughter riot that has made this sitcom one of
America’s favourites. Comic capers This whacko show
seems to spare neither celebrities nor hit shows. For, from the
high-energy comedians of Comedy Inc on Saturday at 4 P.M.
on Zee Caf`E9, no one is sacrosanct or safe. Whether it is Osama
bin Laden’s gay brother Lance bin Laden who stays in Toronto or
Al Jazeera’s favourite show, Hussien’s Line Is It Anyway,
a spoof of American Idol or even a parody of Friends,
this programme seems to have the licence to tear anyone’s
reputation into pieces. The twisted and dark political and social
satire goes to any length to demolish carefully preserved images
of personalities like Tom Cruise and Michael Jackson and also
grinds to dust television hit shows like Big Brother and The
Sopranos. Even movies like the Lord of the Rings are a
target here. The popularity of the show can be gauged from the
fact that it recently won the Gold Medal Award for Best TV Variety
Programme at the New York Festival for the second year in a row.
It has also been nominated for the best writing in a television
series.— NF
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