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 […]
Bill Murray’s most recent promotional tour has taken him everywhere from The Joe Rogan Experience to The Drew Barrymore Show, presumably because she was one of the few Charlie’s Angels cast members that he wasn’t a huge dick to. This […]
Bowen Yang isn’t the reason why Shane Gillis is simply a Saturday Night Live host instead of a Saturday Night Live cast member, but he’s also not afraid of becoming some mouthy extra’s 13th reason. This weekend, SNL’s most notoriously […]
The Academy Awards have honored legendary actors like Meryl Streep, Daniel Day-Lewis, Sidney Poitier, Al Pacino and Katharine Hepburn. They also once nominated the Bass-O-Matic guy. It’s easy to forget that Dan Aykroyd was nominated […]
Hollywood’s obsession with established characters and stories didn’t start with endless iterations of Marvel superheroes. From the earliest days of sitcoms, producers tried to cash in on the popularity of hit comedy movies by translating […]
A lot of attention has been paid to the recent squabbles between the surviving members of Monty Python, but they’ve been clashing with each other long before the days of social media. In addition to the […]
I’d say that the two most well-known facts about World War II are 1) that it happened; and 2) that it’s over. Of course, in the middle of it, exactly when the second part would […]
A number of mega-star comedians have hosted the Oscars over the course of its long history — from Bob Hope, to Whoopi Goldberg, to the anti-comedy performance artist known as “James Franco.” One famous name who’s […]
Although Dr. Frasier Crane has been on TV longer than some people currently going through midlife crises have been alive, that wasn’t originally the plan. When Frasier, played by future Money Plane star Kelsey Grammer, first showed […]
Over the course of Seinfeld’s nine seasons (plus that one episode of Mad About You), Cosmo Kramer sure came up with a lot of wacky business ideas — from the coffee table book about coffee tables, to his legally-dubious plan […]
Not long after Sunday’s celebration of 50 years of Saturday Night Live, people began celebrating 50 years of complaining about Saturday Night Live. There was obviously much to critique about SNL50, from the unusual sketch lineup, to the tribute […]
SNL50: The Anniversary Special, itself the climax of weeks of celebratory documentaries and live specials celebrating Saturday Night Live, was brought to a rock and roll close by Paul McCartney, who performed a Beatles medley […]
If Kanye West is God and Anthony Jeselnik is on a higher level than Kanye West, then is it the Pope’s responsibility to start working on the Divine Tight Five? Last week, the controversial rapper, […]