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 […]
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, […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Gone are the days when there were three sitcoms, and you just had to pick which one to be a fan of. Now, there are so many different series out there that you’d never be able […]
Other than being monsters, what do Frankenstein, the Wolfman, Godzilla and Dracula all have in common? Well, for one thing, they were all subjects of some pretty hilarious Far Side comics by Gary Larson. 1 Godzilla’s Inadequacy 2 […]
Ever since being acquired by the Mouse House, The Simpsons has been producing a number of synergistic shorts for Disney+, combining the world of Springfield with Disney-owned franchises like Star Wars and Marvel — but sadly not Die Hard […]
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, […]
With the Saturday Night movie opening nationwide, you might be tempted to jump on Peacock and watch the first-ever episode of Saturday Night (not yet with Live in its title). Of course it’s interesting from a historical perspective but I […]
There likely wasn’t a path to a win for Jean Doumanian when she took the reins from Lorne Michaels at Saturday Night Live in 1980. The show not only lost Michaels but all of the original […]
These days, John Cleese is as well known for his comedy career as he is for his “being an embarrassingly out-of-touch curmudgeon” career. Whether it’s complaining about imaginary persecution, feuding with his former collaborators or continually raging against […]
There are many reasons for cloning — terrible reasons, mostly. For example, Barbra Streisand cloned her dog Samantha twice, apparently out of devotion to her. Neither of the new pups are Samantha resurrected, so she […]
If you love stories about wealthy cartoonists pouring millions of dollars into Mexican novelty restaurants riddled with building code violations, boy do we have the movie for you. The new documentary ¡Casa Bonita Mi Amor! […]
It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia Season 17 is in the works, which means that the FX Standards and Practices Department is, once again, duty bound to ask Rob McElhenney whether it’s really necessary for him to […]
What makes television unique as a storytelling medium is that it’s broken up into so many little chunks. Think about it: When was the last time you read a book or watched a movie 10 […]
First impressions are everything — except when they’re not. While most sitcoms that struggle in their first season get the ax, there have been occasions when a network is so invested in the success of […]