I feel it was a show that added to the crap they already show on tv (i.e. Friends, Family Guy, Imus in the Morning, the 6:00 News lol)
Where is tv going these days?
Friends was fairly popular, and had was a very funny show because of the silly situations and funny humour... and your right Family Guy is pretty much crap... No humour at all.
but the News??? You hate the news....

I hate to say this, but if you hate the news then there's something wrong with you... it informs us of real life events going on in our world... You need to discover that things DO happen outside of america.
Seinfeld was a *** good comedy, they nit picked all the things that every other TV comedy wouldn't - like 'the Contest'. I recommend you see this episode. and If you don't laugh, then you don't have a funny bone.

Out of curious, randmc and classicalarts - do you happen to like Everybody Loves Raymond???