My Boys: Speaking each other's unspoken language

So we have some bad news and some good news with last night's return of the tbs sitcom My Boys (a double-dose return, no less!).

The bad news is that Jim Gaffigan, that hilarious King of the Deadpan Delivery stand-up comic/actor, has apparently left the show. Booo. I love Gaffigan in general, and I particularly loved him as PJ's brother Andy, the official Eeyore of this merry group of pals.

The good news is that even without Gaffigan, My Boys came back for its fourth season just as funny as ever.

If you aren't familiar with the summertime tbs staple, the premise is this: PJ is a lovely young woman in her 20s who lives in Chicago and is a sportswriter by trade. She is a grown-up tomboy.

Around her is her college roommate and BFF Steph, who is also PJ's polar opposite in that she is a complete girlie-girl. And yet, they work. Her other best friend from college is the adorable Brendan, who is PJ's current roommate. He's kind of a slacker, notch-on-the-bedpost kind of guy, but relatively harmless.

Rounding out the troupe are Kenny and Mike, who together own and run a sports novelty shop and lend the show its sort of Marx Brothers element.

And lastly is Bobby, a fellow sportswriter, closet rich guy, and as of last season, PJ's boyfriend. Oh, and in last season's cliffhanger, Steph and Kenny hooked up.

As we opened this season last night, the gang was trying to deal with Andy's departure and how it affected their weekly poker game. They needed to find a substitute. Of course that turned out to be impossible, because as Steph rightly pointed out, this group is damn near impenetrable by outsiders. As they say in The Sure Thing: They speak each other's unspoken language. Fluently.

In the second episode that aired, the sitcom proved its ability to make me laugh out loud. As Brendan and Mike headed out for an adult night on the town, the other four ended up getting stoned out of their gourds in PJ's apartment. My goodness there were a lot of great throw-away lines in that 24 minutes.

So there you have it. I am happy to have this show back, as summertime is abysmal in terms of sitcoms. Other than this, I only have Hot in Cleveland to make me laugh. Well that and my attempts to remain cool in all this heat. Some of those are pretty hilarious as well.

How about you? Find anything funny on TV these days?