4 Guys Who Won at Life by Just Buying Everything
Money is handy. It lets you buy stuff, and stuff is great. And if you have a lot of money, you can buy ALL the stuff, and the whole world will be at your mercy. […]
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‘Hot Ones’ Side-Steps Controversy by Crediting Animators for ‘Family Guy’ Crossover
Mere months after coming unnervingly close to killing off Conan O’Brien, Hot Ones just hosted another comedy icon of sorts: Peter Griffin. The popular YouTube show, which is predicated on the idea that celebrities will only abandon regurgitated […]
The Biggest Fan of Stanley Kubrick Parodies on ‘The Simpsons’ Was Stanley Kubrick Himself
All October long, Cracked is catching up with some of the greatest writers in Simpsons history to discuss the most beloved segments from the “Treehouse of Horror” series. From the cursed monkey’s paw to Krusto the Clown, […]
21 Movies That Are Blatant Rip-offs
It’s no secret to anyone who’s been to a movie theater lately that Hollywood is out of ideas. If it’s not the seventh installment of a blockbuster franchise, it’s an adaptation of a fortune cookie or a […]
The Five Greatest ‘Saturday Night Live’ Characters, According to Seth Meyers
Seth Meyers confessed to Andy Cohen on Watch What Happens Live that he hasn’t gotten around to seeing Saturday Night yet, so maybe it’s no surprise that none of the original cast’s characters appears on his rapid-fire countdown […]
The Song in an ‘SNL’ Sketch That Became A Big Hit for Dolly Parton
Michael O’Donoghue’s second go-around as a writer for Saturday Night Live didn’t go as well as the first. Brought back after Lorne Michaels and the original cast headed out for parts unknown, O’Donoghue, the show’s new […]
The 5 Most Obscure People to Host ‘SNL’s Weekend Update
“I’m Chevy Chase, and you’re not” was a cute catchphrase to launch Weekend Update on an unsuspecting nation, but it also turned out to be prophetic. While the fake news desk made stars of comedians […]
Michael Keaton’s Last ‘SNL’ Monologue Predicted the Next Decade of His Career
Michael Keaton is hosting Saturday Night Live tonight, presumably to promote his latest movie, while also ensuring that every Halloween party in America contains at least seven to nine dudes dressed like Beetlejuice. Keaton’s first outing […]
5 ‘Garfield’ Comics That Make No Sense in 2024
Garfield debuted in 1978, and most of its regular gags were born shortly thereafter. Garfield liked to sleep, he loved lasagna and he hated Mondays. Nearly 50 years later, he’s pretty much doing the same thing […]
22 Horror Movies That Don’t Rely on Characters Being Dumb
Depending on how hefty a tuition bill the screenwriter has to pay, most movies rely on its characters behaving in ways real people never would just to move the plot forward, but none more than horror movies. That’s […]
How Much Is George Costanza’s Rookie Card Worth?
Ruth. Gehrig. Mantle. DiMaggio. Costanza? Against all odds, George Louis Costanza has become one of the most famous members of the New York Yankees organization. The real-life Yankees even gave away George bobbleheads at a game […]
20 American Actors Who Totally Nailed British Accents
Nobody thinks they’ve got an accent, which means they really notice when someone is imitating their accent so badly that it borders on mockery. For instance, most Americans would describe their own speech as “normal,” but have you […]
5 Famous Comics You Didn’t Know Wrote for ‘SNL’
You could make a damn fine Saturday Night Live cast out of funny people who never made it out of the writers’ room. That group reads like a cast of comedy all-stars, united by the fact that […]
5 Optical Illusions Nature Plays on Us All
Animals evolved to look the way they do for two reasons: to be seen, and to not be seen. They sometimes want to be seen as sexy, they sometimes want to be seen as terrifying, […]
Johnny Carson Left ‘The Tonight Show’ Set to Exact Revenge on Don Rickles
Doc Severinsen was a snitch. After a night off, Johnny Carson was back in his Tonight Show chair, and it didn’t take him long to notice something was off. A cigarette box that had been a mainstay […]
Jimmy Fallon Is Already Ruining Christmas
Jimmy Fallon is more brand than human at this point. The Tonight Show host has dedicated a staggering amount of airtime in the past two months to promoting his various Halloween side-hustles, including a new children’s book […]
‘Masked Singer’ Picked This Week of All Weeks to Sing ‘Rock You Like A Hurricane’
It’s Sports Night on tomorrow’s edition of The Masked Singer, with guests Joel McHale and Nikki Glaser on hand as ringside announcers for a makeshift boxing match. In Fox’s preview clip, McHale brays, “It’s a great day to […]
21 Live-Action Movies That Deserve Animated Remakes
For very good reasons, every beloved animated feature from your childhood is getting the live-action treatment by modern Hollywood. After all, if kids love fantasy worlds full of sights and sounds the likes of which they could […]
Harrison Ford Claims That Every Single One of His Performances Was Comedic
There was once a time when it was completely unheard of for a movie star like Harrison Ford to become a series regular on a half-hour TV comedy. The closest we ever came to a […]
Technical Glitches Put the ‘Live’ Back in ‘Saturday Night Live’
In the movie Saturday Night, the recreation of the minutes leading up to the first-ever episode of SNL, a frantic Dick Ebersol promises Lorne Michaels that he’d get the show’s faulty sound system fixed in time for the […]