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Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip Season 1 quotes

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S1 E6The Wrap Party

[After the show, Danny is trying to deflect annoyed host Lauren Graham when Matt enters the office.]

LGLauren Graham

Why did you cut my sketch?

It wasn't funny.

LGLauren Graham

I thought it was funny.

I thought the writing was funny, but that you weren't very good.

LGLauren Graham

Really? 'Cause I thought the writing was one unbearably long set up for a jingle.

And that's why I cut the sketch. You were in a number of wonderful sketches tonight, including a hilarious send-up of your character on Calico Gals.

LGLauren Graham

Gilmore Girls.

I wrote it down for you!

You see it as part of your job to screw with my company, don't you?

No! I do not. That's just one of the perks.

S1 E7Nevada Day, Part 1

Half the shows in prime time start with two strippers getting strangled after a lap dance, and that's fine with me but if it's also fine with Jesus then I don't see the need to tiptoe around his name.

It's one thing to be asked to respect someone else's religion, it's another to be asked to respect their taboos. In my religion it's disrespectful to God not to keep your head covered. You don't see me insisting that the cast of CSI:Miami wear yarmulkas.

That'd be an unusual creative direction for CSI:Miami.

[about Jordan] She delights in tweaking the religious community every bit as much as Matt does...

That is not true. No one delights in tweaking the religious community nearly as much as Matt does.

[about an interview] I said the Bible says it's a sin. It also says judge not lest ye be judged, and that it was something for smarter people than me to decide.

"Ye" is a word you don't hear a lot.

How do you manage to see every piece of my press?

We have a press department, I get a daily press packet. They highlight what they want me to see - this one got a highlight, an arrow and a sticker!

Well, as I said, they left out the second sentence.

Yeah, can I ask you something? Does your ass hurt from straddling the fence like that all the time?

I don't even know what the sides are in the culture war.

Well, your side hates my side because you think we think you're stupid, and my side hates your side because we think you're stupid.

S1 E8Nevada Day, Part 2

[Jordan tries to get Harriet to cancel upcoming concerts for Women United.]

Young girls attend these events. They admire me. I'm in a position to show them that Christianity has a nicer voice than Ann Coulter's.

Carol Channing has a nicer voice than Ann Coulter's.

DDarius

Can I ask you something?

LLucy

Yes.

DDarius

Sometimes I hear people call another people "sir". There doesn't seem to be a pattern as to when and who, and I don't wanna be impolite, but I don't wanna look like an idiot either, so... who gets called "sir"?

LLucy

I'm working on a sketch right now.

DDarius

OK.

LLucy

There are no rules to it. It'll come naturally, like calling a conductor "maestro" when he is in the vicinity of the podium. You know, we get to Friday night, the more we hear Matt and Danny called "sir". Cal, too, department heads, anybody who deserves it. It's not a big deal.

DDarius

Ok. [pause] Is this is a "white people" thing or what?

LLucy

I'm not white, Darius, I'm English.

DDarius

[laughs] Put that line in the damn sketch.

Shut up, you live off Mulholland, there are other streets in the country where marriage is still important.

It's important off of Mulholland too, but let me ask you something how is my marriage, your marriage, or anyone else's marriage even marginally affected by the gay couple two doors down from them also getting married, and if it does, how is that their problem?

[to Matt] You know what? When George Michael does some guy in a bathroom, or Woody Allen marries his daughter, or a child molester gets an Oscar nomination, it doesn't really give Hollywood a lot of moral authority on sexual behavior.

S1 E9The Option Period

[Cal tears into Ricky and Ron about the just-ending show running 37 seconds short.]

Danny had to have Jessica Simpson fill. Nice girl, nice performer -- don't want her to extemporize on our air. She had time to thank her pets, and then she asked us all to pray for peace in the Midwest.

[laughing] I'm sure she meant the Middle East.

[Matt runs through his own show criticisms with Danny.]

I'll tell ya, considering me and half the cast spend most of the day in Pahrump, Nevada, I thought it was a pretty good show.

Yeah?

I did.

Indiana? Illinois? Missouri? Are rebel forces gathering?

No.

Then why are we praying for peace in the Midwest?

Girl's nice to look at.

...

[Jordan arrives with some ironic congratulations.]

I saw the end... and I think we should all take a moment to consider the suffering in Des Moines.

People knock on closed doors in America! Were the two of you raised on a farm?!

I was.

I was raised over a heroin dealership.

That's no excuse for bad manners.

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