My New VDARE Column: "Mike Judge -- King of the Hill."

Here’s an excerpt from VDARE.com:

One of the lesser known but more interesting figures in American pop culture is Mike Judge. He’s the man behind the increasingly impressive animated television series King of the Hill, which will broadcast its 200th episode in May.

When it first premiered on Fox, King of the Hill was derided as a slow-paced imitation of the frenetically brilliant The Simpsons because it features less than half as many jokes per episode. But once King of the Hill matured, the insightful and unusual quality of its low-key humor became evident. It now must rank among the finest sit-coms in television history.

Judge also created Beavis and Butt-Head, which was a controversial sensation on MTV in the mid-1990s. And he wrote and directed...

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Mar 26th 2006
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