Jerry Seinfeld, Chris Rock, Louis C.K. and Ricky Gervais sit down to discuss ideas about comedy. If that doesn’t sound all that funny to you, you’re only half right. The phrase “inside baseball” came frequently to mind while watching “Talking Funny” (8 p.m., HBO).

Watching comedians discuss comedy is a little like watching men talk about their feelings. It sounds like a good idea, but is it all that entertaining?

The subjects discussed range from the technical to the personal. Who was the first funny kid you ever met? When is a good time to delete material from your act? Do audiences want to see you deliver a well-known routine? Or act as sounding boards for new jokes?

Not surprisingly, Gervais and Louis C.K. tend to be the most cerebral and even neurotic about their relationships to jokes. Merely making an audience laugh is too easy, they all agree.

Gervais eagerly appears for encores after a nanosecond wait. Rock doesn’t do encores at all. This all gets a little self-involved, and at times the boys affect a haughty attitude that undercuts their every-guy appeal.

Gervais worries aloud that anyone can be funny and that they’ll all be replaced. Louis C.K. dismisses that notion. He compares professional comedians to members of the National Football League, and he assures us that they do not lose sleep when casual fans play touch football in their backyards.

To keep the sports metaphors rolling, “Talking Funny” is a little like listening to a NASCAR racer discussing how many times he changes his oil. That’s got to be fascinating to somebody.

• Next to amnesias, bachelor parties, high-school reunions, bachelor auctions and holiday episodes, the notion of a “girls’ night out” has become one of scripted television’s more hackneyed cliches. And reality television’s, too. Every night on the “Real Housewives” franchise is a “girls’ night out.” Those Bravo harridans are simply too dim, grim and self-loathing to stay in. What would they do all by themselves? Read a book? Think?

Happily, tonight’s “Girls’ Night Out: Superstar Women of Country” (8 p.m., CBS) doesn’t pretend to be some contrived evening away from the husbands over watered-down drinks at a Ruby Tuesday. It’s a tribute show, cramming in the career highlights of the Judds, Loretta Lynn, Miranda Lambert, Martina McBride, Jennifer Nettles, Reba and Carrie Underwood.

• Flying supplies to far-flung frozen reaches of Canada’s Northwest is hard enough. But the “stars” of the 13-episode series “Ice Pilots” (9 p.m., National Geographic) do it in 70-year-old World War II-era airplanes. Gee, that sounds reasonable.

Tonight’s other highlights

• Casey meets an old flame while on assignment in China on “CHAOS” (7 p.m., CBS).

• East Dillon’s unexpectedly strong opening performance raises eyebrows on “Friday Night Lights” (7 p.m., NBC).

• Time for chaos on “Fringe” (8 p.m., Fox).

• A tough guy and a naturalist help folks in a pinch endure in the wild on “Dual Survivor” (8 p.m., Discovery).

• Barbara Walters interviews Elton John and David Furnish on “20/20” (9 p.m., ABC).