The Definitive Guide to Comedy
After watching the music video for Carlie and Doni’s “Gangsta Waitress,” you may not understand exactly why Lily Tomlin and Richard Lewis are in it. But it landed them here, so there’s that. And Tomlin has played waitress before, both on the big-screen and in real life. So there’s that, …
Netflix has announced a new 13-episode single-cam sitcom, Grace and Frankie, that reunites Lily Tomlin and Jane Fonda as “long-time rivals brought together by a rather unusual change in their marital circumstances.” Tomlin and Fonda famously teamed up with Dolly Parton in the 1980 movie musical, 9 To 5. “Jane …
Admission, from director Paul Weitz (he also wrote the screenplay with Karen Croner, based on the novel by Jean Hanff Korelitz), stars Tina Fey as a Princeton University admissions officer who — while visiting an alternative high school run by a former classmate (Paul Rudd) of hers — interviews a …
In case you missed it Tuesday because you were watching post-tropical storm Sandy coverage on TV, or because you didn’t have enough electricity to watch a TV — Ellen DeGeneres received the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, 2012 edition, in a ceremony broadcast Tuesday on PBS. She’s the first openly …
