“This animated character’s claim to fame is the violent death he suffered at the end of every episode.” Don’t Miss If we were playing Comedy Jeopardy!, the obvious answer would be, “Who is Kenny from South Park?” But […]
Have you ever noticed how Tommy from Rugrats sounds just like one of the Powerpuff Girls? Or that Scooby-Doo and Astro from The Jetsons speak very similar dog languages? Hollywood’s voice-acting community is full of really talented […]
Don’t Miss Typically, when a star has a new movie coming out, they promote it as much as possible. But Whoopi Goldberg once did the exact opposite, taking legal action to prevent one of her movies […]
Don’t Miss The great Martin Mull passed away recently, leaving behind a prodigious comedic legacy that included Fernwood 2 Night, Clue and that one scene in Jingle All the Way — not to mention his oddball discography and acclaimed […]
While I do have some affection for Mickey Mouse as a character, he’s almost never made me laugh. Whereas nearly every Looney Tunes short has laugh-out-loud moments that are still funny today, Mickey, at his best, is […]
Becoming an adult means realizing that Charles Grodin is a comedic genius, and not merely a cranky old sourpuss who hates adorable St. Bernards. Don’t Miss The late actor/comedian/writer’s knack for postmodern hijinks was evident in […]
The 1950s were different in a lot of ways: People were slightly more afraid of communism, almost nobody was allowed to get married, and if you told people a movie was made by a computer, they’d probably say, […]
To the joy of children/unstable young adults in formal wear everywhere, Hollywood keeps churning out movies featuring the Minions, the cartoon evil henchmen best described as a cross between a Twinkie and a sleep paralysis […]
Don’t Miss Good news for people who don’t want to spend a single second of the summertime outdoors — all six seasons of the hit ABC series Lost are now streaming on Netflix. Judging from the […]
Say this for Saturday Night Live — if performers don’t have the goods, they don’t stick around for long. A number of talented comics didn’t get asked back for even a second season, including future stars […]
George Carlin was never much of a joiner. When comedian Paul Provenza suggested he might be a nihilist, Carlin resisted the notion. “‘Nihilist’ is definitely an identity, and I shy away from identities,” he explained […]
Sure, we all know the people inside the Netflix box aren’t real, but it’s only natural to wish at times that they were. Write self-insert fanfic about them. Make little dolls of them out of napkins […]
Eddie Murphy is clearly in the “let’s revive popular characters from decades ago” phase of his career. After bringing back King Akeem for Coming 2 America and Axel Foley for the soon-to-be-released Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F, […]
Some movies, you can watch once and be completely satisfied. “Well, that’s all I’m going to get out of that movie,” you say, content to cross one more fully actualized experience off your cinematic bucket list. This […]
Wake up, idiots: The world is a cruel, terrifying place. There isn’t a supposedly wholesome thing you could name that doesn’t come part and parcel with a dark side. Baseball? Rife with scandal. Kites? They kill […]
Fictional worlds are full of colorful side characters because, deep down, the writers know protagonists are boring as hell. Like, what did Harry Potter ever do besides almost get killed a bunch of times? Did Jon Snow […]
We really don’t take enough time to stop and be amazed by the fact that we hold a repository of all the world’s knowledge on a device that fits in our pockets. You can tell because […]
Movies are the modern era’s foremost method of escapism — people watch them explicitly for the purpose of stepping into a world that’s prettier, more exciting, or at least less dressed than our own. In […]
Art is supposed to make you feel, but crying at the movies is a complicated identity issue. Some brag that not even the most devastating dog death can make them shed a tear, while others are unabashed […]
Only about two million people in all of human history are considered notable enough to have their own Wikipedia pages, so you’d have to have done something pretty amazing — or at least amazingly stupid — to […]