Michael J. Fox has had a long, public battle with Parkinson's disease, but now he's mining it for laughs in a new NBC sitcom. The Michael J. Fox Show, due on Thursdays in September, stars Fox as Mike Henry, a local New York news anchor (an NBC station, naturally) who leaves his job to confront the disease and, like Fox, returns to work years later. Fox confronts his health issues head-on: Several jokes in the pilot episode address his disability, including shakiness on the air. "There's nothing horrifying about it to me," he says. "I don't think it's gothic nastiness. There's nothing horrible on the surface about someone with a shaky hand. The way I look at it, sometimes it's frustrating, sometimes it's funny. I need to look at it that way." [video=youtube;SXl-krlLoxg]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=SXl-krlLoxg[/video] Read more http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/tv/2013/07/27/michael-j-fox-nbc-family-sitcom/2592495/
i have to say i am a bit on the fence after watching the trailer. My father in law has parkinson's and its very hard watching such a strong man not be able to do the things he loves.
