Its very unfortunate that "comedians" on average don't get paid as much as serious actors.

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Often times my favorite guest starring roles are when serious, drama actors show up on comedies for a small role. See: Matt Damon, Selma Hayek, and Peter Dinklage on 30 Rock, Jon Hamm on 30 Rock and Kimmy Schmidt.

Do you want to write 30 Rock or do you want to write TGS?

30 Rock is a very demanding show with a very high level of quality. If I worked there, I'd probably be worked to death and my poor quality of ideas would probably result in all my dumb fart jokes getting rejected.

If you wrote for TGS, as far as I can tell the show is utterly terrible. Just recycle an old fart doctor sketch and call it a day. But then you gotta deal with Tracy who doesn't rehearse and Jenna who constantly locks herself into her dressing room

So one of the big weaknesses of Animal Farm in my opinion is how specific the allegory is - It is almost a one to one relationship.

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You know how often late night talk show hosts crack very specific jokes about the events de jour? Like if you didn't read the headlines that day you won't get the joke? That's Animal Farm, where almost everything in the story is a specific reference to events in the Soviet Union following the october revolution.

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For instance, the executed animals' confessed guilt? That's a reference to the great purge, where the NKVD would routinely snatch up people and tortured them until they would confess to the most absurd shit.

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And that's why I don't rate Animal Farm as highly as many others do here. It just isn't a timeless book, it is a very, very thin allegory with a ton of references to specific events and people. Hell, most teachers teaching the book start with a quick primer on the october revolution and who the people the various animals are a reference to are. Becuase you practically HAVE TO get the references to enjoy the book.

Here's the reality: every single week millions of people around the world still watch.

I've seen every single damned episode of the show like, multiple times.

So yeah, when you go online, you will see people say "hey, the recent seasons are pretty good". Hell, I'd consider the last season above median in quality. But like, I happily watched season 13, season 22, etc, etc.

Outside of a few offensively bad episodes like Lisa Goes Gaga, I'd happily watch an episode of post season 20 Simpsons over at least 70% of the sitcoms on tv today. And I religiously watch sitcoms, I watch them all the time.