The early years of Saturday Night Live weren’t exactly the most sober. In retrospect, Lorne Michaels probably should have credited a giant baggy of cocaine as one of the “Not Ready for Prime Time Players.” But even […]
Business at Casa Bonita is currently booming. If you want to book a table for Trey Parker and Matt Stone’s novelty Mexican restaurant, the earliest reservation available as of right now is in mid-January. But […]
If you ask somebody what the best movie of all time is, they’re probably going to pick one from a list of about 20 movies. You know the ones. Mostly, they’re Oscar bait, but not always. (Green […]
Apart from pricey trips to Universal Studios and the odd Spanish “Krasty Burger” location, it’s basically impossible for us humans to enter the cartoon world of The Simpsons. That being said, one lucky person somewhere in America […]
How does Garfield feel about Thursdays? Or Tuesdays, Wednesdays or the weekends? While he remains silent about the rest of the week, we know for sure that Garfield really, really doesn’t like Mondays. In fact, here are 10 Garfield […]
While Betty White became a sitcom superstar thanks to The Mary Tyler Moore Show and Golden Girls, she also helped pioneer the genre in the 1950s. It started when White found herself co-hosting — then solo hosting — a […]
“I felt like I couldn’t do well in that situation,” Ben Stiller told Howard Stern about his short tenure as a Saturday Night Live featured player. Stiller didn’t stick around long enough to get the promotion to full […]
Movie stars are kind of like chicken tenders: Even one is great, but the more, the merrier. Still, there’s an art to the ensemble cast. You can’t just throw a bunch of movie stars together all […]
Prioritizing one’s mental health is of the utmost importance these days, and while it’s obviously no substitute for professional help, there are arguably benefits to taking 22-minute doses of The Simpsons as needed. Don’t believe it? […]
You know that you’re not supposed to fire a pistol on an airplane. You know that you’re not supposed to use your phone during takeoff, even if you’re not quite sure why (no, it’s not […]
It took a minute, but Ego Nwodim broke out on Saturday Night Live with her Lisa from Temecula bit opposite host Pedro Pascal. The sketch could easily have been cut from the show since it died at dress […]
The days when an auteur with a vision could finance their masterpiece with credit cards and favors and make it all back by an order of magnitude are pretty much gone. Today, without a budget of at […]
As soon as voting was first invented (by bees, probably), we realized we had something great. It was a step up from the old system, which involved the strongest person dictating what they wanted, then […]
Ryan Reynolds is adorable! Whether he’s smirking through Mint Mobile commercials, buying up quaint Wales towns with superpal Rob McElhenney or decapitating faceless Marvel minions with a smart-ass quip, the actor is the face of self-satisfied charm. Who […]
We know that companies keep tinkering with the recipes behind processed foods, changing nitrates or benzoates so you’ll become as addicted as possible. More basic foods, however, are more dependable. Chicken is chicken, corn is […]
Action movies get a bad rap for being brain candy for mindless babies who only like big car go fast and bomb boom boom, but there’s a lot of important storytelling that can happen during a chase sequence […]
It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia creator Rob McElhenney has an equally creative sister who spent her Halloween dressing up her dog Scraps like every character from the hit off-off-off-Broadway musical “The Nightman Cometh,” even down to […]
The Frasier reboot feels decidedly different from the original show, not just because Kelsey Grammer is older and it’s hard to look at him the same way post-Money Plane, but also thanks to the change in setting. Frasier […]
Over the course of 36 seasons, The Simpsons have had several celebrated crossovers with their animated brethren. The Family Guy episodes are notable thanks to the animosity between the two cartoons, and the Futurama mash-up is fun thanks to the […]
Good news for anyone who’s ever longed to see every single pore on George Costanza’s face, all nine seasons of Seinfeld are going to be released on 4K Blu-ray this December, conveniently just in time for Festivus. While […]