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As I watched the last two episodes of this season’s Kirstie Alley’s Big Life, I found myself laughing and laughing and……you guessed it, laughing some more. Every episode has had this rather odd effect on me and I decided to try and figure out why.

So I examined the episodes from beginning to end, studying them with my glasses (which I wear when I don’t feel like putting my contacts in) perched on the end of my nose, notebook in hand and taking studious notes.

Um yeah….so maybe not.

What I did do was think about it, and I decided that the reason is quite simple. The people in Kirstie’s (big) life are freaking hilarious. If I were standing in a room with them and had to watch all the shenanigans I’ve watched this season, I’d laugh. Cameras or no cameras.

In the first episode, titled “Fat Like Me”, Kirstie decides to try and show all her skinny peeps what it’s like to be fat like her and Jim. She not only makes them wear weighted vests, she even goes so far as to put them in huge fat suits. The results are not only hilarious, but also pretty insightful as each one of them actually does begin to understand what it’s like. As a woman who has struggled with my own weight issues, there have been a lot of times where I wish I could have done that with people, just so they’d get it.

In the final episode, the big joke is that everyone thinks that Kirstie and her extremely hawt Australian manservant…..erm I mean creative assistant… are having a torrid affair. The two are actually working on a surprise project for Jim before he goes back home to Florida.

Do I think that none of this stuff is set up? Heck no, of course it’s gotta be set up. How else do you explain the fact that Kirstie and Nick just so happen to be having a conversation (full of double entendres) in front of her children? Or the fact that Kelly just so happens to be outside Kirstie’s bedroom door to hear them “going at it” and that Tracy just so happens to run upstairs just in time to see Nick run out of the room wearin nothing but a towel.

The fact that some of the jokes are set up doesn’t take away from how funny the results are. These are real people, not actors, and you can’t fake how real people react to the often ridiculous situations they get put into on the show.

Overall the last two episodes of this series were just as hilarious as the rest and I already can’t wait for next season.

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Kirstie Alley’s Big Life – The Way We Weren’t

I was a little late to this show since I was out of town when it premiered. When I got back I heard about it and immediately set my DVR to record.

Boy am I glad I did. I can honestly say this show has me laughing harder than almost anything else I watch all week. Yet it also has some moments too, being about a woman who faces her share of challenges (paparazzi invading her privacy, tabloids publishing vicious articles and pictures, struggling with her weight).

This week the hilarity came when one of Kirstie’s employees, Jim (handyman and also her “chubby buddy”) got a little under the weather. Knowing that his wife was out of town, Kirstie offers up her bed to Jim, offering to take care of him for 48 hours. Jim then basically takes over, using the intercom to demand everything from magazines to scented candles.

This week the slightly more serious moments came from Kirstie giving a real-life challenge to her son True. The 17 year old is engaged (planning to marry when he’s 18) and his mom decided that he needed to know what it was like to be a man and feel the pressure of having to provide for a family. So she challenged him to get a paying gig (he’s a musician in a band) in five days. It was fun watching him man-up to the task as at first he felt it couldn’t be done, but later felt the flush of success when he pulled it off.

The best part of the show for me is always Kirstie’s voiceovers. As the camera zooms in on her often wacky facial expressions, we get to hear what’s going on in that mind of hers. Without those, I don’t think the show would be half as funny as it is.

Overall a great show that manages to make me laugh (hard) every week and also shows me a woman who is a lot like many of us out there, struggling with her own issues just as the rest of us struggle with ours. The difference is that her life is much funnier than mine so I’m glad she’s the one with the show. I don’t have lemurs. I really need to get some lemurs.

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