Danny Breen made his mark in front of the camera as a cast member for eight seasons on HBO’s sketch comedy series, Not Necessarily The News. But Breen also won multiple Emmys for his work behind the scenes on a producer for Ellen and The Wayne Brady Show. An alum of The Second City, he made […]
Continue Reading“Peak TV” and “Prestige Television” are lazy and lame labels for a number of reasons. For one, they’re cavernous, catch-all constructs that display a total disregard for how television is made. They also conflate volume and variety with inherent quality. So the television landscape is actually less of an oasis and more of a desert […]
Continue ReadingRose Marie, a vaudeville star at 3 and hit radio singer at 5, who performed opening night at Bugsy Siegel’s Flamingto resort in Las Vegas and is best known now for her co-starring role as TV comedy writer Sally Rogers on The Dick Van Dyke Show, has died. She was 94. It is with broken […]
Continue ReadingSaturday Night Live entered 2017 with good ratings, millions of viral shares, and more momentum than it has had in years. Much of this upshot was due to the political climate–and the country’s need for the humorous angle of what often seems like dark times. SNL did an admirable job in 2016 of getting political […]
Continue ReadingAs 2017 draws to a close, we take a closer look at a few of the notable sitcoms that aired their final episodes in 2017. To some we say a tearful goodbye, and to some we come only to bury them, not to praise them. And we hold out hope that 2018 will be a […]
Continue ReadingThe field of late night television is more crowded than ever. Beyond the main five network hosts, the crowd of cable hosts is growing larger and larger, and streaming services are beginning to dip into the pool as well (does it count as a late night show if it doesn’t have a fixed time slot?). […]
Continue ReadingThe field of late night television is more crowded than ever. Beyond the main five network hosts, the crowd of cable hosts is growing larger and larger, and streaming services are beginning to dip into the pool as well (does it count as a late night show if it doesn’t have a fixed time slot?). […]
Continue ReadingA Christian, Jew, pseudo-Scientologist, agnostic, atheist, Jehovah’s Witness, and a Muslim all enroll at a dysfunctional community college. How do they celebrate the holidays? No, this isn’t the setup to a particularly long-winded joke about religion or a public school Board of Education’s call to arms. Rather, this is an honest to goodness question posed […]
Continue ReadingIf you’re looking for some last-minute holiday gift ideas, look no further than this clip from last night’s Tonight Show, where Jimmy Fallon welcomes Jo Firestone and Amy Sedaris to demo a few holiday toys, including a creepy Luvabella baby doll, a Play-Doh kit, and life-size reindeer. Two things about Sedaris and Firestone: they make […]
Continue ReadingComedy Central has created the perfect followup to Dave Chappelle’s Netflix standup special debuting on New Year’s Eve. The network announced today that it will air all 28 episodes of Chappelle’s Show chronologically on New Year’s Day in an all-day marathon that begins at 9:00am. At the end of the marathon, the network will air Chappelle’s 2000 hourlong […]
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