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NEWS > ENTERTAINMENT > AUDIENCES STILL FINDING TWO AND HALF MEN FUNNY
AUDIENCES STILL FINDING TWO AND HALF MEN FUNNY
November 4 2009
Hollywood, CA – There’s little denying that the sitcom has come a long way since the early days of television. From the zany antics of Lucille Ball and Jackie Gleason, to the wholesome laughs of Bill Cosby and Michael J. Fox, to the intellectual post-modernism
of ‘Arrested Development’, sitcoms have had almost as much diversity as they have had viewers, and proved season in and season out to be the pulsing heart of the medium of television, consuming the bulk of the prime television watching hours.
Over the last few years one show has been holding the torch for all those great sitcoms of television’s past, ‘Two and Half Men’. The show, which boasts 80’s stars Charlie Sheen and Jon Cryer as battling brothers, has firmly established itself as one of the great programs in the history of the medium, drawing stellar ratings every year and making millionaires of everyone involved. Of course like any success the show has had its detractors who question the intelligence of the show and the viewers alike but such criticism has done little to impeded the laughs as the show continues to march on. Now in its seventh season, the show continues, providing all too familiar laughs to and enraptured audience. 
“I’ve done a lot of things. Ferris Bueller was great, ‘Wall Street’ was great, and so was ‘Platoon’ but I can honestly say that I am most proud of this show. There is nothing that I have been involved with that has so engaged an audience and that I come away from thinking that I’ve done a good days work. Those other things are classics, but this is great,” said Sheen in an exclusive interview. “I can’t explain how thrilling it is to be a part of something like this. When I was a young actor I had all these roles that critics loved and were blockbusters and it had me fooled. I actually thought that those pieces were great but it was all that wide-eyed excitement of being a young actor that had me fooled. I realize exactly what they were now, and what I have today.”
Other acclaimed works that Sheen appeared in during his early career were ‘Lucas’, Eight Men Out’, and ‘Red Dawn’.
“I was actually talking to Jon about that the other day. He had a good amount of success in the early part of his career and he started to believe the hype about it as well. For him it was really ‘Pretty in Pink’. That movie is still watched but he only sees it as a stepping stone that allowed him to get here, to ‘Two and Half Men,” continued Sheen. “Every time I get a new script it feels like gold. Literally, just holding it my hands there’s a kind of almost religious reverence that comes over me. I just know that it contains greatness and it almost feels like a sin to open it and read it, almost like as a mortal I’m undeserving. I realize though that I am and that I’m the right person at the right place.”
With ratings still strong it’s not clear how long the show will continue on the air or if anything will ever be able to replace it.
“I guess as long as people still find it funny the show will stay on the air. I mean people will eventually stop laughing but that’s only after the writers slow down and stop producing so many gems. Until then there will really be no stopping the program,” said Scrape TV Entertainment analyst Tracey Temple. “It would, however, be a little unfair to judge it alongside great sitcoms of the past. Humour doesn’t always translate through generations so comparing it to the past, or that past to it would be a little unfair. Obviously the show has struck a chord with this generation, something that many though impossible with so many other sources of humour. Luckily though in an era of talking cats and guys being hit in the testicles real comedy can survive.”
‘Two and Half Men’ airs Mondays at 9:00 pm on CBS, and in syndication everywhere.
Samantha Dryden, Entertainment Correspondent
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