Live from D.C it’s the Bush White House
- July
- 2
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Satire, at its best, is an artful blend of subtlety and wit. But often it plunges into heavy-handed ways. Then it becomes insufferably witless.
Live from New York, we’ve seen satire suffer under the “Saturday Night Live Syndrome” of ham-fisted un-funniness. Now this: Live From Washington — it’s the Bush White House.
Unwatched and uncovered in these [...]
From Snl To The Senate Al Frankens Improbable Bid For Congress
- June
- 11
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If you think Congress’ performance is laughable, it may be getting even funnier soon. Former Saturday Night Live comedian Al Franken has clinched the Minnesota Democratic party’s nomination for his bid to be a U.S. Senator.
Franken, a 57-year-old Emmy award-winning comedian, first gained momentum as a political force following the publishing of his best-selling book [...]
Meet The Cast Thats Going To Save Saturday Night Live
- May
- 11
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For those of you who have been keeping score, it has been a long time since Saturday Night Live, once the premier, end all and be all of comedy on television, has held the clout it once demanded. In fact, many of those who grew up on the late night comedy show have long since [...]
Saturday Night Live: Amy Poehler Pregnant With Her First Child
- May
- 3
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Amy Poehler charmed movie fans by playing a surrogate mother in the comedy flick Baby Mama, and now she’s about to be one herself. The Saturday Night Live star is reportedly expecting her first child with husband, Will Arnett, who is known for his role as George Oscar “G.O.B.” Bluth II on the FOX sitcom [...]
Parents Guide
- April
- 27
Good lessons/bad lessons: “You can’t solve problems by worrying about them.” Violence: None. Language: A few jarring bits of profanity. Sex: Some examples of the old-fashioned way of making babies turn up. Drugs: Alcohol and cigarettes, and a harder drug reference. Parents’ [...]
Few belly laughs in Baby
- April
- 27
With everyone from the TV-awards circuit to Entertainment Weekly declaring Tina Fey the new queen of comedy, the producers of Baby Mama (including Saturday Night Live’s Lorne Michaels) have treated her first star vehicle as a coronation. I love Tina Fey (who doesn’t?), but you can start the crowning without me.
Playing a variation on [...]
PRODUCT REVIEWVideo 2.0 Goes Pro With Hulu
- April
- 13
Enter Hulu
Last week, the ad-supported, streaming approach took a big leap forward with the launch of a Hollywood-backed service called “Hulu,” at hulu.com. Hulu aims to be a legal, one-stop shop for streaming of TV shows and movies from numerous networks and studios. It’s intended as an attractive antidote to pirate sites and to Google’s [...]
Phoning In the Future of Television
- April
- 3
No TV? What Now?
However, even if Gilder was right, and television is toast, it’s still hard to figure out what exactly comes after it. The future, naturally, lies in the eye of the beholder. Ask a conventional TV executive to predict the future, and they will probably put you to sleep with indigestible jargon about [...]
Spears Having a Blast on CBS Mother
- March
- 14
Spears was scheduled to shoot scenes Thursday.Radnor told People.com that “on the first day of the shoot, Britney knew her lines better than I knew mine. She’s been great to work with.”Spears has previous TV sitcom experience playing a character on a 2006 episode of “Will and Grace.” She was also the host and musical [...]
Please wake me when Ms. Theron arrives
- March
- 14
*How is Jane Fonda different from Bill Clinton and George W. Bush? Fonda went to Vietnam.
*Why don’t Episcopalians participate in orgies? There are too many thank-you notes to write.
*My cat Pitsy likes this one: Where do you find a cat with no legs? Right where you left it.
Cat mysteries
Pitsy’s favorite plaything [...]
