The Greatest Night In Pop, the new Netflix documentary about the making of “We Are the World” has everyone nostalgic for those 80’s music team-ups to benefit good causes. That song was itself inspired by […]
Shane Gillis will go down in Saturday Night Live history for one of the strangest trajectories in the show’s history — from new cast member hire to unceremonious firing before appearing in a single show to […]
In March 1951, a new comic called Dennis the Menace debuted in the U.S. That very week, a different comic about a different mischievous boy debuted in Britain, and it was also called Dennis the […]
Here in the post-grimdark era, every franchise needs comic relief. When shit gets too real, a donkey with Eddie Murphy’s voice or a kid whose name is British for “fatass” is trotted out to soothe our […]
You know how it is: If you take something too seriously, or horribly biff the execution, it ends up being funny. Your first attempt at a skateboarding trick. Most karaoke performances. Your wedding dance. We’ve all been there. […]
Bowen Yang changed his mind about using passive-aggressive Instagram posts to send Saturday Night Live leadership a message. Apparently, he’s now doing it by giving them the silent treatment. Yesterday, Yang made waves for subtly speaking out […]
We all know Linus and Lucy, Schroeder and Pig Pen, but there are dozens of kids from Charles Schulz’s Peanuts strips that the ol’ blockhead himself would have trouble identifying. Like Shermy — Charlie Brown’s one-time best friend and original […]
Warning: contains spoilers for the Season 12 premiere of Curb Your Enthusiasm. Last night, HBO aired the premiere of the 12th and maybe final season of Curb Your Enthusiasm. The spiritual sequel to Seinfeld finds that show’s co-creator, Larry […]
Comedy begets comedy, even if we sometimes forget just which laughs came from where. Sure, we remember Frasier sat around the bar at Cheers and Young Sheldon was a Big Bang Theory character writ small. But no one will blame […]
The beauty of the colorful continuum of cinema is that it ranges from high art to some real stinkers. That doesn’t mean those at the lower end can’t be enjoyable — you’re lying if you […]
Sure, George mentions he has a brother in “The Parking Space” and Jerry says he has a sister in “The Chinese Restaurant” when clearly they’re only children during the rest of Seinfeld, but those glaring continuity […]
In film as in life, not everyone can be a winner, and by “not everyone,” we mean “most of the tripe served up by major studios on any given night at the cinema.” Still, most of […]
Most songs in most movies are little more than window dressing. As effective as they are in the moment, you’re probably going to forget the snippet of lyrics you swore to Google later so you can find […]
You needed to be a sharp-eyed fan to spot yet another celebrity guest on last weekend’s Saturday Night Live. No, not Jimmy Fallon in his Barry Gibb disco suit. Nope, not Shark Tank’s Mark Cuban and Barbara Corcoran. […]
Sitcoms can be a little formulaic, especially if they’ve been around for, I don’t know, let’s say 34 seasons. But that’s also why we love them. If we know what to expect, we can turn our […]
It’s hard to say goodbye to loved ones. We’re talking, of course, about our favorite TV shows that were canceled before their time. We want to blame greedy advertisers and short-sighted networks and fickle viewers because we don’t […]
Making computers seems like a tough gig. Not only is it incredibly complicated, dealing with finicky components that are completely bricked if one microscopic pin gets tweaked, but the margin of error is low. Given […]
On May 30, 1951, Charles Schulz introduced a new character to the Peanuts gang named Schroeder. The thing is, he looked quite a bit different than the Schroeder everyone knows. First off, he was a baby, […]
Some movies are doomed from the start, with absolutely nothing at their cores that was ever going to be interesting or at least fun. “Cats introduce themselves for two hours.” “Adam Sandler goes on vacation.” “The winners of American […]
Saturday Night Live’s Lorne Michaels seems like an unassuming guy, low-key and urbane, hardly the type of big personality whose voice lends itself to celebrity impressions. But post-Dana Carvey, it seems as if every SNL cast member has […]