Ana Gasteyer figures she encountered only five a-holes in her six years at Saturday Night Live, she said this week on the Las Culturistas podcast. The way she could tell? “They would be like, ‘So-and-so is in the building, […]
Listen, we’re not saying that indie movies are bad. If anything, they’re often better than the soulless blockbusters built from the lowest common denominator in some conglomerate’s focus group. We’re just saying that, when nobody’s invested more […]
It’s no secret that some of us have been less than thrilled with Jimmy Fallon’s assorted money-making schemes these past several months. Throughout the spooky season, Fallon devoted a significant chunk of the show to hawking […]
“We should write dangerously,” Mel Brooks told the writers he assembled to create his classic comedy, Blazing Saddles. “That’s what this is all about.” The writers, including Brooks, Richard Pryor and Andrew Bergman, tried to push the envelope […]
If you tell a joke, and people take it too seriously, it might end with someone getting offended and you having to apologize. Occasionally, someone will write you out of their will. But there’s also […]
Early next year, Saturday Night Live will air a three-hour primetime special to celebrate its 50th anniversary, featuring celebrity guests and those surviving former SNL cast members who haven’t made Lorne Michaels’ enemies list — yet. But this […]
It’s time to talk about the smiling, black-bodied critter that had a massive effect on the future of animation, and it’s absolutely not Mickey Mouse. Felix the Cat debuted years before Mickey Mouse, in the […]
Making The Simpsons Movie must have been a daunting task. How do you honor nearly 20 years of iconic material in one 90-minute feature? Most recurring Simpsons characters got at least one moment to shine in the movie — from […]
In what’s fast becoming a staple of Saturday Night Live discourse, the show has, once again, produced a sketch that some folks have pointed out is suspiciously similar to an internet comedy video. Two weeks ago, the […]
The 2025 stamp designs are out! There are the usual boring sets — American vistas? More U.S. flags? Vibrant leaves? — but one announcement has set comedy hearts aflutter: a commemorative stamp featuring the late sitcom […]
Ben Affleck and Matt Damon, two of a generation’s most decorated filmmakers, have appeared in an inexplicable number of Kevin Smith films. Both have acted in Chasing Amy, Dogma, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, Jersey Girl and Jay and Silent […]
Hollywood loves a biopic, mostly because it means they don’t have to come up with a new idea. They just have to read a memoir, figure out which actor most closely resembles a much hotter version of them […]
Fresh off the critical re-evaluation of his revolting film debut Freddy Got Fingered, Tom Green sat down with Graham Bensinger for an extended interview covering his life and career, up to and including the time he teamed up […]
In what might turn out to be the only good news to drop this month, it was just announced that Conan O’Brien will be hosting the 2025 Academy Awards, even despite the fact that it’s […]
Long before he was solving murders in luxury apartment buildings and endlessly trading pre-written put-downs with Martin Short, Steve Martin collaborated with those hunks of felt and plastic that made our childhoods magical (and early 2000s Denny’s […]
We’ve talked before about Criterion, the home video company that celebrates the medium of film with prestige releases of great works of cinema, which they then use as bait to trap celebrities in their closet. […]
The Oscars is that one magical night a year when Hollywood gets together to celebrate achievement in filmmaking, aside from all the other nights they do that. It’s also a celebration of backroom deals, historical whitewashing and […]
For a lot of folks, it’s become tradition to spend the holiday season watching Clark Griswold celebrate with his family/suffer several traumatic brain injuries in National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation. It’s like a modern It’s a Wonderful Life, […]
As much as film is a visual medium, the song playing during a scene can be just as vital as what’s happening on screen. Who can imagine Titanic without “My Heart Will Go On”? Or The Graduate without […]
The Conners will be coming to an end next year, thus closing the book on the Roseanne-verse once and for all. Unless of course, they decide to just reboot it again 20 years from now with […]