Sunday, July 22, 2007

AFT Awards: Best Writing in a Comedy Series

This is the thirteenth category of the 1st Annual AFT Television Awards to be announced. Episodes listed represent the best in comedy series writing this past year. Nominees are listed in alphabetical order by series.

Best Writing in a Comedy Series
THE OFFICE, "Beach Games" (Written by Jennifer Celotta and Greg Daniels)
The penultimate episode of this great season of the episode features some of the funniest dialogue I ever heard. The writing for star Steve Carrell's Michael Scott and Leslie David Baker's Stanley are particularly notable.

THE OFFICE, "Branch Closing" (Written by Michael Schur)
Steve Carrell and Rainn Wilson get some great lines in this hilarious half-hour about the impending shutdown of the Scranton branch of Dunder Mifflin. The remarkable turn of events is so brilliantly laid out by a seriously talented writer.

THE OFFICE, "The Merger" (Written by Brent Forrester)
The Scranton and Stamford branches come together in this great episode. Combining previously separate teams is a difficult task made seamless by fantastic writing.

PSYCH, "From the Earth to Starbucks" (Written by Steve Franks)
This occasionally ridiculous show shines in a brilliant and hilarious episode with some truly stellar dialogue for all characters involved, most notably star James Roday.

30 ROCK, "Hardball" (Written by Matt Hubbard)
This somewhat on-and-off series is brutally hilarious in this episode, which contains some of the most impressive writing I have recently seen. Each character is so fully developed by the plots and dialogues they are given that the actors, however hard they are working, have an advantage from the start.

And the winner is...
30 ROCK, "Hardball"

Next: Best Writing in a Drama Series

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