'League' fulfills comedy fantasies
TV REVIEW | Good and tasteless sitcom
Have you been despondent since 2003's "Old School" came out, longing for the kind of aging-frat-boy humor that will make you snort beer out your nose? Well, this buddy sitcom's for you.
It's supposed to be set in Chicago, although the actors are suspiciously trim, their wives uniformly hot. A group of guys who've known each other for 15 years bond over their obsession with fantasy football, even if it means bargaining for draft position at their kids' birthday parties.
9:30 to 10 p.m. Thursdays (repeating at 10:30) on FX
The dialogue is entirely composed of trash talk, and as far as that goes, it's pretty creative. If you approach it from an anthropological angle, you'll appreciate learning that two guys who've had sex with the same woman are called "Eskimo brothers."
Standouts in the cast include bespectacled Nick Kroll and the orthodontically challenged Paul Scheer, whom you'll know from "30 Rock" and as the "Kaboom!" guy from "Parks and Recreation."
Maybe you've matured to the point that jokes about porn, pedophilia, dogs with Down syndrome, Robert Blake and magic aren't funny to you. Me, I laughed. But I'm not proud.