It’s cute when celebrities cameo on your favorite sitcoms — Marisa Tomei flirted with George on Seinfeld! Bryan Cranston stopped by It’s Always Sunny! Sheldon meets William Shatner on Big Bang Theory! But while it’s fun to […]
When they’re not campaigning, governing or bureaucracy-ing, government agencies and entities can be pretty darn funny. 15 The Pennsylvania Treasury Walked So That Other Boring Government Agencies Could Run 14 Here’s How New Jersey Mourned the […]
To improvise in any art form, says Arrested Development creator Mitch Hurwitz, you need to learn the basics. “It’s like knowing how to play traditional jazz before you learn how to play bop,” he explained in And Here’s […]
Comedy is really the only genre of movie that can still be enjoyable when it’s really dumb. After all, a sufficiently bad drama or action movie just becomes a comedy, but a stupid joke can be […]
These jokes will make you yell “booyah!” or your money back. 14 Tommy Boy (1995) Tommy: I can get a good look at a T-bone by sticking my head up a bull’s ass, but I’d rather take […]
You’d think that convincing people to eat food, something that’s fully necessary for continued existence, would be a pretty easy task. All you really have to do is make your particular product look delicious, and […]
It seems like no one in Hollywood wants to take risks anymore. Gone are the days when a visionary auteur could score a sleeper hit with a weird little indie film — we only let people do […]
Chris Farley’s first sketch as Matt Foley has long been Saturday Night Live legend, probably the first clip shown in any Farley retrospective. Part of the hilarity is thanks to the inability of Christina Applegate and David […]
Most movies get one shot at a theatrical run and either become blockbusters or sink into the imaginary vault in every producer’s heart where their failures live. They might be rediscovered in some far-flung corner of Netflix, […]
“Our parents told us not to get into cars with strangers, and not to go meet strangers from the internet,” noted one famous joke from when Uber first became a thing. “Now, we get into […]
Don’t tell the critics, but it’s really not that hard to figure out if a movie is going to be good. As long as nobody gets too far up their own ass, a visionary director, competent screenwriter, […]
Did you know that visitors to this site are statistically likely to be sexier than people in general? At least, that’s the hypothesis behind the new study we’re doing. And if the study reveals anything […]
Deciding when to quit a movie is a lot like deciding when to quit a romantic relationship. Give up too early, and you might only realize later what you were missing, and then you have to […]
There may be no notion in the Futurama fandom more cursed than, “Maybe the network censors were right.” Futurama’s struggles with its own channel are a huge part of the show’s history. After overcoming two cancellations […]
Despite what certain factions of the internet will tell you, what makes a movie good is largely subjective. Maybe you live for a heart-pounding action sequence, or maybe they bore you to tears. Maybe you consider […]
It’s that special time of year when Christians celebrate the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ by stuffing their faces with mass-produced chocolate products supposedly laid by a magical bunny rabbit. Some folks, on the […]
Back in the day, I had a special edition DVD of The Big Lebowski where the box was shaped like a bowling ball — it was awesome. I also had the Back to the Future box set that included […]
Humans have a lot of stupid instincts leftover from ancient times that just aren’t useful in the modern era: cravings for sweet and fatty foods that were once valuable and scarce but now kill us, attraction […]
Ah, movie magic! The sounds and the sights! The glitz and glamour! The several hours in a makeup chair applying prosthetics that ultimately make you look like an idiot! Despite the fact that we’ve been […]
At work, do you give it your all? Gosh, we hope not. That’s not sustainable. If you give it all this week, what will you do next week? You’ll have nothing left. Some people, however, […]