Alan Alda rationalizes his role as Hawkeye Pierce on M*A*S*H in Q&A retrospective
by Would you believe that Alan Alda’s Hawkeye Pierce wasn’t the moral center of M*A*S*H, the hit CBS series for 11 seasons from 1972-1983? That’s what …
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Jon Lajoie’s timeless ode to the latest pop music scandal du jour: “Miley, You’re A Good Girl”
You’ve seen plenty of snark and bark in the past two days following the MTV VMAs, and particularly about Miley Cyrus and her act-out performance …
Patton Oswalt’s Social Media Experience Experiment
When you become such a beloved comedian that everything you say is amplified — Your essay in response to the Boston Marathon bombings brings us …
Jim Carrey’s “Cold Dead Hand” video got everyone’s attention
Speaking of the Peabody Awards… Jim Carrey’s music video this week for Funny or Die, “Cold Dead Hand,” takes a satirical look at the NRA …
TV / Uncategorized / Video
“Creating Reality,” by Andy Kaufman, a still-living art exhibit
Andy Kaufman’s final passport sits in a glass case, a snapshot of his optimism that remained even a couple of months before he died in …
Election Day 2012: Six years closer to “Idiocracy”?
A few days ago, actor Terry Crews popped up in a new series of videos on Funny or Die in character as President Camacho. Not …
Nick Kroll’s Comedy Central ad for Chikk Club; take that Chick-fil-A
Nick Kroll’s Comedy Central sketch series, Kroll Show, doesn’t even debut until 2013. But Kroll and his friends already had taped a satirical response to …
BBC Radio to try U.S. version of “The News Quiz,” hosted by Lewis Black
You may be familiar with the NPR quiz-show staple, “Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me.” But in Britain, they’d already been having fun with the news on …
Onion News Network writers on the blurry line between ridiculously real TV news and IFC parody
One of the more fascinating features of IFC’s Onion News Network is how this fake parody of TV news relies heavily on people with real experience as …