Mike Myers says you can’t just make a catchphrase happen. “I’ve never designed a catchphrase. I just like how people talk,” Myers told Vulture late last year. “Remember ‘Get in my belly?’ That was improv. It wasn’t, ‘Ladies […]
Spoiler alert: Maher did not turn into Robin Williams or Roseanne. But that doesn’t mean he didn’t get his opportunities. He told Carvey and Spade about his shots at sitcom stardom that fizzled shortly after […]
The holidays may be over, but awards season is in full swing. With the drunkest of Hollywood awards shows already in the books, we can now look forward to the Grammys, the Producers Guild of America […]
Eddie Murphy gets most of the credit for bringing Shrek’s Donkey to life, but he didn’t do it alone. While Murphy’s signature voice provided the comic timing, Donkey’s physical appearance was based on a real-life miniature donkey […]
It hasn’t even been a full week since New Year’s Day, but according to TV’s biggest crank, enough is enough already. As pointed out by the “No Context Curb Your Enthusiasm” social media account, today, January […]
The Simpsons has been on the air for nearly four decades, and many of the characters, despite their perpetually youthful appearances, are beginning to sound conspicuously old and haggard. So, not surprisingly, the show’s creatives are […]
We’re less than a week away from seeing the It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia gang make their network TV debut in the midseason premiere of Abbott Elementary. It will be more than a little disconcerting to see cable […]
As is tradition, the final installment of Saturday Night Live’s Weekend Update for 2024 found fake news anchors Colin Jost and Michael Che penning horrifically offensive jokes for each other to read on camera. The Christmas joke swap […]
As we’ve mentioned before, The Criterion Collection is the home video company that releases high quality (but definitely not cheap) DVD and Blu-ray editions of those films that they have deemed worthy. Sadly, their announcement […]
We’ve been conditioned by movies to expect someone in a coma to eventually wake up. Even if the doctors explicitly say it’s unlikely, because they don’t know the power contained in a single tear landing […]
Creating a Christmas episode is just part of the sitcom job description, but not all holiday-themed installments are created equal. Some sitcoms recycle lazy “Christmas Carol” or “It’s A Wonderful Life” rip-offs, while others — […]
It’s been 35 years to the day since The Simpsons dropped their Christmas special/inadvertent series premiere “Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire.” To mark the occasion, the long-running show just dropped a brand new holiday special on […]
It’s been nearly a month since Jay Leno showed up at a gig with an eye patch and a giant bruise on his face, looking less like the former host of The Tonight Show, and more […]
Watch your back, Santa Claus. Not content with scrubbing childhood memories from the Cartoon Network website and Max or blowing up Wile E. Coyote before he could make his big-screen debut, David Zaslav and his cronies at […]
There are plenty of reasons not to clean. It takes time (which you could otherwise spend reading) and takes effort (which you could otherwise not spend at all). The only advantage is that cleaning makes […]
Plenty of comedy stars have popped in for a cameo when their old sitcom costars get a new gig — think Cheers’ Ted Danson visiting the original Frasier or most of the Community cast (minus Chevy Chase, of course) stopping […]
The Amazing Kreskin, who passed away recently at the age of 89, wasn’t always Amazing. He was plain old Kreskin until Johnny Carson added the honorific based on the mentalist’s 88 appearances on The Tonight Show, making […]
Classic sitcoms from the 1950s obviously look a lot different than modern TV comedies. For starters, they were mostly in black and white. Also, they seemingly took place in an alternate reality where toilets and queen-sized […]
Today, we’re going to put you back into the shoes of a kid taking a standardized test. We’re going to give you a pair of quantities, and we’re going to ask you which is bigger. […]
Bob Dylan is on a lot of people’s minds these days thanks to the upcoming biopic A Complete Unknown, which chronicles Dylan’s early rise in the folk music scene, up until he decided to “go electric” in […]