FX laughs!

In recent years, this cable channel has concentrated on intense dramas ("The Shield," "Nip/Tuck," "Rescue Me" and "Over There") where yucks are few and far between.

Now FX is introducing comic relief, thanks to two new half-hour comedies premiering tomorrow.

"Starved" is a bitterly funny exploration of four New York chums each plagued by an eating disorder. (Who else but FX would find humor in bulimia?) It is created, directed and written by Eric Schaeffer ("My Life's in Turnaround"), who also stars with Sterling K. Brown, Del Pentecost and Laura Benanti. Like nothing you've seen, "Starved" is a comedy to binge on.

After that, the "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" premiere focuses on three twentysomething chaps who are smart enough to own an Irish pub in Philadelphia, but dumb enough not to make a success of it. Or much of anything else they try.

Rob McElhenney, Charlie Day and Glenn Howerton star (and write the series), with Kaitlin Olson as Dee, the bartender sister of Howerton's character.

In the premiere, the guys hire Dee's cool boyfriend, who happens to be black, as a promoter to bring a whole new crowd into the bar. He does. But they (along with Dee) are in for a surprise.

Filmed single-camera on location, "Philadelphia" is goofy and twisted. Think of it as working-class "Seinfeld" in the City of Brotherly Love.

And think of FX as a welcome new source of hilarity.

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