Saw an interesting piece in by Ian Crouch in the New Yorker. With Aaron Sorkin’s latest show, The Newsroom, starting on HBO, Crouch reflected back on another Sorkin show, Sports Night.

Inspired by the Keith Olbermann-Dan Patrick act on SportsCenter, and using the newsroom theme, Sports Night was a terrific, but unfortunately, short-lived series on ABC. The cast was outstanding (Felicity Huffman, Josh Charles, Peter Krause, Josh Malina, and occasionally Huffman’s husband, the great William Macy). And of course, there was Sorkin’s rapid-fire dialogue.

Here’s a long Sorkin rap delivered by Macy.

Here’s Charles, through Sorkin, going off on Sorkin.

And a segment on writer’s block, with the unfortunate laugh track that ABC insisted be put into the show despite Sorkin’s objections.

Want more? Here’s the youtube link for Sports Night.