Will Ferrell's been gone from "SNL" for 10 years now. I don't know how we've kept it together since then, as Americans. He was the closest thing to this country's Kim Jong-Il: Everyone would cry in the street if he died, and sunglasses made him look like something in one...
(0) Comments | Posted February 2, 2012 | 6:31 PM
Imagine a dreamworld where a magic potion can get 39 million people to unite in front of their televisions and watch Undercover Boss all at the same time. This potion can also get 27 million people to watch two hours of Airwolf in a row.
What if I told you...
(1) Comments | Posted January 12, 2012 | 2:25 PM
The New Year's resolution might be society's most useless invention since the appearance of those tiny chairs for your cell phone to sit on. They're made to be broken. They've become a joke. In 2011, TIME Magazine compiled an illuminating list entitled "Top Commonly Broken New Year's Resolutions."...
(4) Comments | Posted December 29, 2011 | 8:21 AM
We're a little afraid of this list. We've been talking a lot about TGIF recently and whether that could happen again, sort of like how historians wonder if a comet will hit Earth sometime in our lifetime and how we might survive it. We're worried there's going to be a...
(25) Comments | Posted October 5, 2011 | 9:38 AM
Have you ever had that moment in your car when you stopped bobbing your head long enough to realize that you've been getting really into the "Knight Rider" theme song for the last 45 seconds?
That is what this list is all about. It's the true top ten of well-crafted...
(2) Comments | Posted September 22, 2011 | 6:52 PM
As we all know, the Grammys have become the really nice boy in class who brags about the fact he's never read a book and sometimes comes to school with his shirt on inside out.
It almost never happens, but when he gets something right, we're all very surprised and...
(6) Comments | Posted August 30, 2011 | 10:14 PM
It appears teenagers have become sentient. They're infiltrating our society, they've learned how to walk upright (sort of), and they've even started to create their own cryptic language.
Since it's far too late in the game to just leave them at the bowling alley and feign ignorance, you're going to...
(3) Comments | Posted July 31, 2011 | 2:59 PM
This really shouldn't be surprising -- coming from a guy who came up with a sketch that has the line "Come have sex with the Iron Sheik" in it -- but Mike O'Brien's new talk show is brilliant.
Mike O'Brien's new talk show is so brilliant, in fact, it makes...
(15) Comments | Posted July 14, 2011 | 1:28 PM
Yep, it's summer. Time to start hating yourself for accidentally falling asleep while watching TV like an elderly person.
It's inevitable, but it poses the question: which shows will you watch the first 15 minutes of this summer?
We've narrowed down the summer premieres. Nice little microcosm of America we've...
(1) Comments | Posted May 31, 2011 | 4:58 PM
Since you're probably a human being with things like responsibilities and priorities, you most likely didn't watch every reality show finale this week. You didn't know that Lauren Alaina won American Idol, that Kirstie Alley won Dancing With The Stars, or that Donald Trump's hair turned into a thousand hornets...
(0) Comments | Posted April 22, 2011 | 6:21 PM
You know those parts of a Will Ferrell, John C. Reilly or Danny McBride movie where there is clearly no script, just a few minutes of some of the funniest people in the world making fun of one another? Know how these are usually the best parts of the movie?
...(0) Comments | Posted April 14, 2011 | 7:44 PM
There's this grainy Zapruder film of the world's best living comic, Louis C.K., appearing on The View, and he's getting completely manhandled. Without telling him beforehand, the show had clipped up his then-new show on HBO, Lucky Louie, the ladies tuned down to...
(8) Comments | Posted March 9, 2011 | 5:24 PM
While Charlie Sheen was jubilantly waving his roof machete and roaring "Freedom!" earlier this week, his employers were doing the opposite.
In fact, they're kind of stuck.
Warner Bros. and CBS are trying to find Sheen's replacement on their most highly-rated (if criminally overrated) comedy, Two and a...
(4) Comments | Posted February 16, 2011 | 8:35 AM
This week's Glee is all about comebacks. Sam (Chord Overstreet) decides to woo Quinn (Dianna Agron) back by forming a Justin Bieber cover band, which is far more successful than you might think. Rachel (Lea Michele) tries to gain popularity, enlisting Brittany (Heather Morris) as a living Barbie doll to...
(3) Comments | Posted February 9, 2011 | 8:28 AM
Oh, teenage love ... The ups and downs, the will he or won't he; it's a dramatic, high-wire act fraught with danger at every turn. And this St. Valentine's Day at Glee's McKinley High, the stakes have never been higher. The now-quadrangle mess that is Finn-Rachel-Sam-Quinn (stay with me now...
(4) Comments | Posted February 7, 2011 | 5:10 AM
What happens when you mix bombastic cheerleading costumes, pyrotechnics, locker room scuffles, and a zombie shuffle? You get the over-the-top spectacle that was "The Sue Sylvester Shuffle," the biggest episode of Glee to date. Let's break it down: Cheerleading coach Sue Sylvester (Emmy winner Jane Lynch) struggled to make things...
(1) Comments | Posted February 4, 2011 | 3:38 PM
If you're wondering why Dana Carvey is hosting Saturday Night Live this week, it may be because he's the best ambassador to great comedy that the show has ever had.
Nope, this isn't because he's doing SNL this weekend in a Love of the Game sort of situation. (Even though...
(8) Comments | Posted January 19, 2011 | 12:21 AM
Parks and Recreation returns for a third season this week, and never before has a sitcom proven so well that all politics are local politics. Simple municipal projects, whether filling in a giant pit, or making sure that a megalomaniacal confectioner doesn't make our children obese, can quickly become hopeless...
(24) Comments | Posted January 17, 2011 | 1:07 PM
Well, it's time to start clutching your World's Greatest Boss mugs and begin crying loudly in a corner. Not only is Michael Scott leaving The Office, but he's leaving the show about a month before the end of its season.
Deep breaths. It's going to be okay.
Remember, as...
(0) Comments | Posted January 11, 2011 | 7:57 PM
Take a new crop of fresh-faced doctors, stick them in the jungle, and what do you get? If you're watching ABC, you get the new medical drama Off the Map, created by Grey's Anatomy producer Jenna Bans. And while these newbie docs are eager to prove themselves, they clearly have...

(7) Comments | Posted May 14, 2012 | 12:00 PM