SNL mocks sad shows masquerading as sitcoms or TV comedy to win awards
by CBS broadcasts the most popular sitcoms on TV, but all of the Emmys and Golden Globes for best comedy series recently have gone to series …
Tag: satire
Episode #119: Norman Lear
Norman Lear is a television legend. Writer, producer and creator of all-time classic sitcoms of the 1970s – including All in the Family, Sanford and …
Esquire revives SPY magazine for final month before 2016 Elections
SPY is back?!? The satirical magazine that reigned in print from 1986 to 1998 is back online for the final month before the 2016 elections, …
Kevin Avery parodies his own Wells Fargo corporate video for HBO’s Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
Aspiring comedians often take whatever commercial gigs or corporate work they can as they’re trying to pay the bills and move up the show business …
Episode #115: Andy Zaltzman
Cue the bugle sounds and put your puns where we can see them, because Andy Zaltzman is my guest today. Zaltzman is a critically-acclaimed comedian in …
Alec Baldwin is now playing Donald Trump on Saturday Night Live
This just in! Saturday Night Live is hyping the 42nd season premiere this Saturday with a video of its own “Trump vs. Hillary” debate, featuring …
Episode #114: Tony Hendra
Tony Hendra began his career at Cambridge University with the famed Footlights as the comedy partner of Graham Chapman, and starred in the annual revue with …
Alamo Drafthouse cinemas to host 10-year anniversary screening, Q&A of “Idiocracy” on Oct. 4, 2016
Just a month before Election Day 2016, the Alamo Drafthouse movie chain is giving Idiocracy a bigger 10-year anniversary screening party than the movie’s studio …
Episode #113: Lewis Black
With the 2016 election careening toward Judgment Day, Lewis Black is back on Broadway this fall, giving voice to the grand majority of Americans and …
Idiocracy screenwriters wrote some 2016 videos for Terry Crews to revisit future President Camacho, but you won’t see likely see them in 2016
Enough people have compared the state of our 2016 presidential campaign with the 2006 film Idiocracy that its filmmakers decided to write some new copy …