Sitcom gravy train over?

When Jon forwarded me this article from The New York Times, I didn't know whether to laugh or to cry. Throughout the 90s, a hell of a lot of people who should've become doctors and lawyers and middle management drones became wildly derivative, smug and pampered sitcom staffers instead. A shake-out is probably a good thing for everybody. (Just make sure it's over before I need to put a kid through college, okay?)