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"      If you&amp;#039;re wondering what the most anticipated comedy show of next year will be, the race has already been more or less decided. NBC has committed to a full, 22-episode season of Michael J. Fox&amp;#039;s untitled new show, pilot unseen, outbidding other networks in the process. It&amp;#039;s the kind of deal that&amp;#039;s reserved for about two people: Bill Cosby and Michael J. Fox. The single-camera sitcom will be about a father who has Parkinson&amp;#039;s, much like Fox, and the choice of network here is significant: NBC&amp;#039;s Family Ties is why we know Fox in the first place, and now that the network is struggling to define its entertainment lineup, he might be just the help they need. When he left fulltime TV in 2000, Fox wondered, &amp;quot;Can sick people be funny?&amp;quot; In the era of the coiffed, canned-laugh sitcom, it was certainly more difficult, but anyone who&amp;#039;s watched Fox play a version of himself in a string of guest spots over the past few years, especially as beleaguered neighbor to Larry David, has already been laughing. In the most recent season of Curb Your Enthusiasm, the two had a turf war of sorts over a New York City apartment building that ends in chaos. At one point, there&amp;#039;s a misunderstanding about a headshake from Fox that may have been a &amp;quot;Parkinson&amp;#039;s shake&amp;quot; or a &amp;quot;Larry shake.&amp;quot; By the time David starts doodling a Hitler mustache on Fox&amp;#039;s father-in-law, it&amp;#039;s clear which it was. But as far as Fox&amp;#039;s comic talent goes, it&amp;#039;s become obvious that it doesn&amp;#039;t matter. MICHAEL J. FOX: What I&amp;#039;ve Learned &amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;gt; Follow The Culture Blog on RSS and on Twitter at @ESQCulture. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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