Hampton Yount on Conan
by Fresh off his performance a few weeks ago at Montreal’s Just For Laughs as a New Face, fresh-faced Hampton Yount made his stand-up debut on …
Category: TV
Ranking, watching and surveying the entire catalog of The Simpsons with showrunner Al Jean
Twenty-five years of The Simpsons has passed before our eyes, and it’s about to happen again — all in a row, all at once. The …
Movies / TV / Uncategorized
Remembering Robin Williams
You want to be able to quote his inspirational movie lines back to him, to step on a desk and shout to him, “O Captain! …
Books / TV / Uncategorized / Video
Bill Cosby’s biographer on the origin story of the “Cosby Sweater”
The term “Cosby Sweater” is one of the most unlikeliest legacies to come out of the #1 TV show of the 1980s. And yet, even …
Bob’s Burgers, Harry Shearer among first-time winners at 2014 Emmy Awards
“Mazel Tina!” That’s an appropriate title for the episode that won Bob’s Burgers its first Emmy Award over the weekend. Harry Shearer, long known but …
Sydney Castillo wins first season of Funniest Wins on TBS
In case you missed it, the other Wayans brother with a televised comedy competition this summer wrapped up its first season last weekend on TBS, …
R.I.P. Don Pardo, 1918-2014
Don Pardo was such a fixture of Saturday Night Live that it’ll even take creating executive producer Lorne Michaels a few years still to catch …
Cameron Esposito on Conan
I don’t know if Cameron Esposito ever considered calling her upcoming stand-up album Zero Penis Summer, but I’m sure Same Sex Symbol has a certain …
Rod Man’s debut on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Fresh off his win last Thursday on NBC’s Last Comic Standing as the season 8 winner, Rod Man made his debut later that night with …
Rod Man wins Last Comic Standing 8
This season they let the judges and not the viewing or the studio audience decide. So it was a celebrity expert panel of Roseanne, Russell …