Because CW is just teeming with great comedy ideas

I found something on YouTube I could bear to watch for more than 90 seconds.

It's called "Nobody's Watching," and it's a comedy pilot written by Bill Lawrence (creator of "Scrubs") and Neil Goldman and Garrett Donovan (writers on "Scrubs" and "Family Guy") last year for the WB ... back when there was a network called the WB that was looking for new ideas.

But with CW taking over WB, the show apparently is a dead letter. So it's gone online.

The concept is more meta than "The Office" and meaner, too: Two minimart clerks from Ohio dream of making sitcoms in L.A. because all the current ones suck.  So they get a call from L.A. to come make a reality show about making a sitcom ... and if I explain it any further than that (a) I'm going to have to start using footnotes and (b) you're going to think it's not very good.

It's actually great. It manages to kick a lot of sitcoms while they're down ("Yes Dear," in the show's lexicon, is a verb synonymous with ... well, guess ... and "Coach" is used as a punchline, too). And yet it's rather sitcommy in its own way (in a way that "The Office" finally is becoming). Not only that, I could see the gimmick working for a long time (whereas in "The Office" -- that show again! -- they're half pretending that a documentary is still being made at a paper supply company and I'm pretty sure even Fred Wiseman would've knocked off by now).

I wouldn't mind watching "Nobody's Watching" on TV.  But I can't, so ... check it out at YouTube: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3