We think it still is. As alumni of the Harvard Lampoon, which has spawned scores of TV writers, the two have friends in the medium who helped out with some inside dope. Everybody loves to bash TV, because it's such a monolith. I mean, it's easy to love 'The X-Files' but to hate Fox. Aboud estimates that the site has gotten 5,000 hits since it went up a month ago.
Talk gets personal.
It goes through your stuff when you're not looking. The Talk site made Newsweek and The New York Times after Harvey Weinstein, the head of the company that owns the magazine, ordered the duo to stop using the publication's logo. He said he thought we were hilarious. Being funny for free may be a kick, but the pair hope to start a permanent humor site that would let them make money while making merry. As they say at ABC, it doesn't get any gooder than that.