Compared to the rest of the world, American history is remarkably short. We don’t get Greek tales of cyclops living on our islands, or British ones of a regal fellow yanking a sword from a […]
Screenwriters love to sound profound, but some of the most quoted lines they’ve written are also some of the most obvious, puddle-deep platitudes adorning high school yearbooks the world over. “Life is like a box of chocolates. You […]
On the June 2nd episode of Last Week Tonight, John Oliver discussed the decline of Red Lobster. He then announced that his show had purchased all of the equipment from a shuttered Red Lobster in Kingston, New […]
Daniel Radcliffe considers himself a pretty bright guy, with a cultural knowledge base that extends well beyond what one learns at Hogwarts. How did he build his internal store of information? “There are so many weird facts, […]
Every once in a while, when the stars align and the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie, a movie comes along with all the ingredients it needs to become a cinematic icon. […]
Hannah Einbinder had just turned 24 when she was featured among the New Faces at the 2019 Just for Laughs Festival, and was the then-youngest comic to do a live set on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert […]
Was Kristen Wiig the last great originator of the Saturday Night Live recurring character? This article not your thing? Try these… Between Dooneese, Target Lady, Penelope, Sue the Surprise Lady and Gilly, Wiig created a menagerie of […]
It can be easy to forget, when you’re watching Tom Cruise run straight off a cliff like Wile E. Coyote, that movies are art, and art is supposed to make you feel things (other than “Oh, hell yes”). […]
Jon Stewart returning to host The Daily Show for just one day a week could have easily been a disaster, a Jay Leno-esque maneuver that allowed him to awkwardly cling to his old job at the expense […]
Like she doesn’t have enough awards? At the Emmys alone, Julia Louis-Dreyfus has taken home 11 trophies for three different parts (Selina Meyer on Veep, Christine Campbell on The New Adventures of Old Christine and Elaine Benes on Seinfeld), in […]
Howard Stern and Tiffany Haddish agree: Eddie Murphy is the greatest cast member ever to perform on Saturday Night Live. But Haddish has never talked to Murphy about his time on the show. Stern wondered why — because it […]
After delving into the unlikely power of Abe Lincoln, I became curious: What other commanders-in-chief might we be underestimating the physical strength of? It would, of course, be unbecoming for presidential photographers or portrait artists […]
HBO hopes that its new docuseries Ren Faire, which chronicles the intrigue and internal politics of a transition of power at the massive Texas Renaissance Festival, will scratch the itch left unscratched since the conclusion of […]
From The Simpsons to John Cleese to Chevy Chase, history is littered with beloved comedies and comedians who kept going well past their primes. Can you blame them? If someone is writing you a check to […]
There’s been a conflict between art and science in the film industry for as long as dumb people have been pretty. Some of the most dramatic settings and, let’s face it, sickest shit to look at […]
Words have opposites. That’s one of the first thing we learn about words, thanks to Grover demonstrating to us the difference between “near” and “far.” Some words, however, have no opposites. Think about “lie,” for […]
Any successful star can hire their kid to perform on their sitcom. Lucille Ball did it on The Lucy Show with Lucie and Desi Jr. back in the 1960s. Dan Levy flipped the script by hiring dad Eugene for Schitt’s […]
From the very start, Sesame Street believed that the best way to educate kids was to entertain them at the same time, which is why Jim Henson’s brightly-colored creations were brought on the show in the first place. […]
In this house, we love a movie plan that is both way too complicated to work out and completely illogical if you think about it for even a second. So does user AporiaParadox. “Bad guys and good […]
Walt Disney sure loved to smoke. So much so that he dropped dead of lung cancer on December 15, 1966. He was quickly cremated, and his ashes were interred at the Forest Lawn Memorial Park […]