Short lived? Did it catch some common disease that other shows were immunized against?

Like McCarthy herself?

Sitcoms like this lob jokes slower and gentler than a little league pitcher

After Seinfeld, I really don't understand why anyone was willing to go back to these types of sitcoms.

During the 90s, the networks were doling out sitcom vehicles based around specific "stars" like they were complementary boxes of animal crackers; you were almost garuanteed to get one if you were a stand-up comedian no matter how not that well known you were, and various "personalities" were given their shot at starring roles and/or ill-advised vanity projects.

maybe curing diseases that affect humanity wasn't such a good idea after all

This is what happens when you mistake a stroke-mag chick for Lucille Ball.

Made it to the Star Trek joke.

It turns out the brow-furrow/mouth-gape combo can be used to convey most human emotions.

Jenny McCarthy's face is impossible to take seriously or tolerate.

Well, at least Karen Kilgariff got a bit of money out of this.

Her comedic genius is rivaled only by her grasp of biochemistry.