21 Actors Who Played Against Type and Killed It
As much as they like to insist they can be any person or animal or tree, even the best actors can get locked into one particular type of character because they’re just really good at it. […]
Category: Funny
Natalie Portman’s ‘SNL’ Rap Was ‘Mindbogglingly, Graphically Filthy’
SNL hosts who want to take a walk on the wild side? Not always a great idea, explained Seth Meyers on this week’s Lonely Island podcast. “A lot of times actors come in and want to show […]
Here Are All the Celebrity Cameos You Might Have Missed in Jerry Seinfeld’s Pop-Tart Movie
It’s been almost a week since the release of Jerry Seinfeld’s Pop-Tart movie Unfrosted, which critics are hailing as an “embarrassment” and “one of the worst films of the decade so far.” But because we live in Hell, millions […]
Richard Lewis and Don Rickles Starred in the Bizarro ‘Frasier’
Every so often, Hollywood offers up two projects with nearly identical premises at the exact same time. Volcano and Dante’s Peak both came out in 1997, Armageddon and Deep Impact also hit theaters in 1997, and the fall of 2006 […]
5 Massive Troves of Gold Stuck Maddeningly Out-of-Reach
You can solve all your problems if you just get your hands on some gold. Yes — gold! Sweet, sweet gold. With enough gold, you can get the law off your back. You can buy […]
These Are the Real-World Versions of Ned Flanders’ Leftorium
In the 1991 Simpsons episode “When Flanders Failed,” Ned Flanders opened his famous Leftorium, a mall store that catered to the left-handed citizens of Springfield. The business had a rocky opening, but Flanders kept the Leftorium open all the […]
20 Movies That Would Be Ruined If Their Endings Were Extended
They say there are no such things as happy endings because nothing ever ends, and by “they,” we mean Peter S. Beagle. God, The Last Unicorn is so good. And he was right: Follow that unicorn for 30 […]
Was ‘Sixteen Candles’ Racist? Gedde Watanabe Didn’t Think So At The Time
John Hughes movies as a rule haven’t aged well — just ask Molly Ringwald about Breakfast Club. But few characters are more problematic than Long Duk Dong, the horny Asian exchange student in Sixteen Candles played by Gedde Watanabe. […]
An Early ‘South Park’ Video Game Was Recycled as an Olsen Twins Game
South Park has been on television for a hell of a long time. So long, in fact, that babies born when the show first debuted are now able to legally drink, wildly overdo it, and […]
15 Brilliant Observations From Modern-Day Philosophers
“I think, therefore I am.” That only sounds profound because no one had written those five words in that order before. It’s been like 400 years since Descartes dropped that one, and a lot of people […]
5 Everyday Foods Americans Never Ate Till Strangely Recently
People consider some food exotic, and their grandkids go on to consider it mundane. Go watch some TV show from the 1990s, and you’ll see a cappuccino was an absurd drink demanded by yuppies, while […]
24 of the Best ‘Reveal’ Scenes in Movie History
When you think about it, movies are really just a series of revelations. Of course, there’s the classic plot twist, but that’s not always the movie’s big reveal. It might be an element thrown in to defy […]
Five Jokes from the First Season of ‘The Simpsons’ You Now Need Wikipedia to Understand
Let’s journey back to 1989 and 1990. Back then, the Game Boy was billed as the first handheld gaming system, Cheers was a top-rated sitcom and violently choking your son was an acceptable form of child-rearing. This […]
21 of the Best Times Celebrities Played Themselves On-Screen
No matter what talent has shot them to the upper echelons of fame, every celebrity wants to be a movie star. On the flip side, being a movie star can get tiring, so it’s tempting to […]
22 Movies That Are Way Too Long
Not to get all Boomer on you, but movies are long as hell these days. Even a stupid comedy is likely to take you well beyond the 90-minute mark where it should have died, and if it’s […]
The 4 Worst Choices ‘SNL’ Has Ever Made
With those missteps in mind, here are four more of the worst decisions in SNL history… 1 Hiring Aykroyd and Belushi (The Brother Versions) I’m not usually one to cry about nepo babies, but early SNL was shameless in […]
The Forgotten Abortion Controversy Surrounding ‘Knocked Up’
One of the most popular movies on Netflix this month is Knocked Up, the 2007 Judd Apatow comedy that dared to ask “What if Seth Rogen was fertile?” and then constructed an entire 129-minute feature film […]
15 GIFs of Muppets Exploding
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 […]
14 Viral Jokes That Really Stuck It to the Man
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 […]
Jared from Subway’s ‘SNL’ Cameos Age About as Well as a Six-Week-Old Five-Dollar Footlong
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 […]