As AOL Television continues their look at the 50 Best TV Comedies -- Ever with numbers 40-31, we here at TV Squad are also looking at them as well, but in a different light. Last week, we took a look at the top ten sitcom sidekicks. This time around we look at the stars of these shows. In particular, those stars that began their career between a brick wall (or a curtain) and a microphone.

We're talking about stand-up comedians. During the early days of television they were found very infrequently in situation comedies (yet, they were plentiful in variety shows). However, as the decades progressed, more and more of them found a home in front of three cameras and a live studio audience. Many of them became bigger stars then they ever were performing routines in front of a drunken audience at 1:00 AM.

We've compiled a pretty comprehensive (in my opinion) list of those stand-ups who made it big in the sitcom world. In order to keep the list down to under a thousand entries, we set a few standards: The sitcom needed to last at least two seasons, the show had to be a comedy and not a variety program, and the comedian needed to have a prominent role in the sitcom. Even with those rules the list is pretty extensive. So, without further pontification...

Ah, the beauty of YouTube. Yesterday, we told you about how the site had the thirty-second trailer for Studio 60 that was shown during The West Wing's finale. But if that wasn't enough for you, you can now see the entire six-minute trailer for the show that was shown at NBC's upfront presentation on Monday. You can see the video on YouTube's site here (the person who uploaded the clip turned off embedding for this one).

The trailer really makes me want to see the pilot, even if it has the typical Aaron Sorkin preachiness. It looks like it combines the best elements of West Wing and Sports Night into one.

And to whoever grabbed the affiliate feed from the upfront: many, many thanks.

[thanks to Aaron for the tip.]

[UPDATE: The video's been taken down from YouTube due to copyright issues.]

[UPDATE to the UPDATE: Somone else was nice enough to upload the video again. You can see it here.]