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 […]
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 […]