I love the Final Destination movies. As someone with generalized anxiety, they’re borderline cathartic. Watching a sink disposal get turned on by accident and making paella of someone’s arm? Makes me want to stand up […]
When I was a young, stupid child, I assumed that the person who owned Cartoon Network must be awesome. A Willy Wonka figure, preferably minus the child murder, rolling around the office on a skateboard […]
Gene Wilder and Mel Brooks “got along swimmingly” when they made Young Frankenstein, Brooks writes in his memoir All About Me: My Remarkable Life in Show Business. But their disagreement over one key scene was so fierce that […]
While at the Met Gala, a yearly highlight for fashion and lowlight for wealth inequality, Ego Nwodim chatted with The Bear’s Jeremy Allen White about SNL’s recent song dedicated to short kings. He was namedropped […]
Before the premieres of The Muppet Show in 1976 and Sesame Street in 1969 — and even before he was a frequent guest on The Ed Sullivan Show in the late 1960s — Jim Henson created a puppet show […]
After Bowen Yang dressed like baby hippo Moo Deng and made pop-culture jokes on Weekend Update last year, outlets like Variety led the outrage machine with headlines like, “SNL Mocks Chappell Roan.” Mocks? Well, Moo Deng did mention Roan, but […]
This Saturday Night Live revelation might be more shocking if Michael Che hadn’t cried wolf so many times in the past. The Weekend Update anchor recently posted that he’d watched a terrible stand-up comedy special but […]
After a century of non-recognition for their broken bones and unsightly bruises, movie stunt designers are finally getting their own Oscar. It’s about time stunt guys and gals get their flowers for death-defying feats. But forget Mission: […]
When Jim Nabors found out that his Gomer Pyle character from The Andy Griffith Show was getting a spin-off in which the filling station attendant becomes a U.S. Marine, he researched how to act like a […]
What if there was an official Seinfeld point-and-click adventure game from the 1990s that was never released? That question was the actual premise behind Seinfeld Adventure (The Game About Nothing), a pitch from two successful video-game creators in […]
As of this week, it’s officially been 50 years since Monty Python and the Holy Grail first hit theaters. While some Python fans may choose to celebrate this milestone by paying nearly $300 to ask John Cleese […]
One of the most obnoxious sitcom tropes is when a show becomes popular enough that celebrities begin appearing on it as themselves. (I’m looking at you, Dr. Phil on Frasier, Nancy Reagan on Diff’rent Strokes and Bradley […]
Kenny Bania, an irksome stand-up contemporary of Jerry’s on Seinfeld, was a meta joke when he was introduced in the show’s sixth season, according to Seinfeldia. The mediocre comic who generally went on right after Jerry at the […]
Steve Martin and Lorne Michaels approached the early 1970s, that tumultuous time of Vietnam and Watergate, from completely different directions. “For Michaels, it was a call to arms, banishing big dumb comedy,” according to Lorne: The Man […]
A running gag in Monty Python’s Flying Circus found the show occasionally cutting away to old stock footage of an audience of elderly women tepidly applauding. Well, it turns out that this joke may have been […]
Batman movies have The Joker, the Scream franchise has Ghostface, and documentaries have… Woody Allen? The disgraced comedian and filmmaker was the subject of the 2021 HBO docuseries Allen v Farrow, which re-examined the 1992 criminal investigation that was […]
While David Letterman no longer has a late-night show (unless you choose to watch his sporadic Netflix series at precisely 11:35 p.m.), the Letterman YouTube channel has been quite busy posting vintage clips. As we’ve […]
Kelsey Grammer’s most beloved character — with the possible exception of Sideshow Bob and Money Plane’s Darius Emanuel Grouch III, aka “The Rumble” — is, of course, Dr. Frasier Crane. But the future of everyone’s favorite lovably […]
Last night, Seinfeld and Curb Your Enthusiasm creator Larry David was courtside for the L.A. Lakers’ latest headline-making drama. He just had to get out and stretch his legs, didn’t he? Right now, the NBA world is alight with […]
Most of the youth-oriented buddy comedies that came out in the ‘90s aren’t fondly remembered today. Like, nobody seems to be going to bat for movies like Meet the Deedles, Dead Man on Campus, or Bio-Dome, the film […]