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 […]
Jolly old elf Martin Short is making it official — by joining Saturday Night Live’s Five-Timers Club on December 21, he’s also cementing his status as the show’s all-time Christmas Guy. Along with the season’s opener and […]
Have you seen one of those viral posts promising a Christmas Vacation sequel this holiday season? Could it be that Chevy Chase might electrocute himself once again in pursuit of being the jolliest house on the block? […]
Only 21 more shopping days until Festivus, for those who celebrate — and people really do. A change.org petition in 2022 lobbied to designate Frank Costanza’s Festivus as an official holiday, and frankly, it’s more celebrated than […]
Back in the day, you could just throw any old bullshit into the end credits of a movie. In fact, filmmakers were fond of splicing the funniest bad takes into the infinite scroll, because why not? […]
George Costanza is many things: a liar, a New York Yankee, a boyfriend dating way above his league. Oh, and he’s also a public urinator. In the Season Three episode “The Parking Garage,” both Jerry […]
Saturday Night Live’s upcoming 50th anniversary special will no doubt bring back a number of past characters, as long as they weren’t played by Joe Piscopo or Jim Breuer, we assume. The show doesn’t air […]
The biggest movie in the world right now is Wicked, the musical revisionist take on The Wizard of Oz that in no way includes James Franco and/or a CGI monkey voiced by Zach Braff. Wicked, of course, fills us […]
Comedians are unusual creatures in that they show affection through criticism, Jim Gaffigan said this week on the Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend podcast. It’s the conceit behind roast comedy — we only hurt the ones we […]
Action movies are decried as mindless backdrops for eating popcorn, but a good action scene can do just as much to move the story forward as a boring conversation. It can reveal character, change relationships, and it […]
A lot of comedy fans love both Mel Brooks and Monty Python, and would presumably be thrilled if they all got along splendidly. Unfortunately, one of the very first meetings between the Blazing Saddles director and […]