Whenever Jim Henson didn’t know how to conclude a sketch with his Muppets, he usually relied on one of two tried-and-true finishes: A Muppet would eat another Muppet, or a muppet would explode. From unnamed background Muppets to […]
The working class is ready to rise up! And the only way to stop us is respect, common decency and a living wage. 14 Positively Disgusting 13 You Asked for It 12 Oops, This One’s Not […]
When Olympic medal madman Michael Phelps hosted Saturday Night Live in 2008, the show’s writers had two cameos in mind for his monologue — Chuck Norris and Barack Obama. “Lorne (Michaels) felt very confident we could get both […]
Man, kids are idiots. Have you seen one of these things? They’re hopeless at trivia. A lot of them have no apparent control over their limbs. If they get real young, they think things stop existing if they […]
Hollister is the name of a 150-year-old city in California. It’s also the name of a clothing brand, owned by Abercrombie & Fitch. Hollister Co.’s branding says the company was founded in the City of […]
The Office (U.S.) was never supposed to be a show about people in the movie star class of attractiveness — John Krasinski got those abs after the finale. Sitcom savant Greg Daniels and TV comedy veteran Michael Koman just […]
Sunday used to be all about Tom Brady for Boston sports fan Bill Burr. These days, however, Brady has been replaced by Bluey. Burr recently answered a flurry of fan questions in a new GQ video, including one that asked, […]
Whether you’re a fan of The Rocky Horror Picture Show or Clue or the celebration of child endangerment that is Home Alone 2: Lost in New York, it’s pretty much impossible not to love Tim Curry, the legendary actor […]
They say everyone’s a critic these days, but that’s not true. Film critics are well-educated, formally or otherwise, in the art of filmmaking, which qualifies them to expertly analyze a movie’s virtues and faults. In other words, […]
Long before they were spending millions on CGI dragons and John Oliver’s Supreme Court payoffs, HBO’s original content was a tad more low-key. One of their most talked-about original movies back in the 1990s was The Late […]
What other comic records make the cut? In chronological order, here are the funny 13 — all from the 1960s and 1970s. C’mon, National Recording Registry, let’s get more modern comedy on the list! (Tomlin […]
Anyone who’s ever seen A Goofy Movie knows that its titular star is one charming son of a bitch, as adept at disco dancing as he is at fly fishing. And as if you needed more […]
Death is a very serious thing of which we should never make light, whether in person, in print or on-screen — that is, unless a movie is basically a live-action cartoon filled with sweet-ass and […]
When we look back on the current season of Saturday Night Live, the year’s most successful hosts — Emma Stone, Kristen Wiig, Nate Bargatze — won’t come as much of a surprise. All of them are comedy veterans who […]
Animated movies get a bad rap. Nobody ever thinks to give, say, Oppenheimer or The Godfather the cartoon treatment, no matter how much more you can do with a horse’s head without the laws of physics to bind […]
When you think about it, it’s pretty weird that movies are divided by age into only three categories: the first 10 years of life, the next 10 and all the rest of it. There’s a much […]
On Saturday Night Live’s 40th anniversary show, Andy Samberg and Adam Sandler did a musical tribute to laughing during comedy sketches. “That’s When You Break” conceded that virtually every cast member (well, maybe not Phil Hartman) lost […]
Second City and National Lampoon stage veteran Harold Ramis was an obvious choice to help script the first Lampoon movie. While co-writers Doug Kenney and Chris Miller had writing chops from their years working for the counterculture humor magazine, […]
Hundreds of movies are released every year. If you tried to remember them all, you might forget more important things, like your children’s names or the lyrics of “Return of the Mack.” That’s why so many even […]
Animal Control, as its name suggests, frequently features guest-starring roles by various winged or furry creatures, and last night’s was no exception. But the chicken who escapes from a medical treatment Patel (Ravi Patel) and […]