If you’ve enjoyed the feeling of laughing while watching TV over the last 20 years, it’s probably thanks in part to comedy writer Tom Gammill.
Tom and his writing partner, Mitchell “Max” Pross, started out on Saturday Night Live in 1979, and went on to be hilarious for It’s Gary Shandling’s Show, a memorable run on
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In the very brief period of my life when I was extroverted and not introverted — circa ages 7-9 — I appeared in my elementary school’s production of A Charlie Brown Christmas as Charlie Brown. I still have the yellow shirt with the ziggy black line. Ironically I now have a bald round Charlie Brown head, but I can no longer fit into the …
By which I mean that. My colleague James Poniewozik has seen Dollhouse and blogged about it. He makes a good point:
Dollhouse [sic — Jim is way lazier about italicizing things than I am] as conceived (a heroine plays a different “person” every week) is less a series concept than an actress’ showcase, a sort of extreme version of an
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I was in the audience for tonight’s taping of Spike TV’s Scream Awards, “celebrating comics, fantasy, sci-fi and horror.” It’s a fun show, much more entertaining than the 6000 other award shows I’ve been to. Here are my awards for things that happened at the show itself.
LOUDEST AUDIENCE JEER: Clip of Shia LeBoeuf from …
On the credits of The Simpsons “Treehouse of Horror” episodes, the producers and staff always replace their unfunny and unspooky real names with spooky and funny “Halloween Names.” (Except for a couple years where we didn’t for reasons I forget.)
MATT GROENING becomes BAT GROENING. SPOO-OO-OOO-KY! FUUU-NNNNNN-YYYYYYYY!
My …
— io9 says that Variety says that the Clone Wars TV show might actually not suck. For your consideration, here’s a clip of Yoda breaking some robots:
— It’s only peripherally nerdy, but I was beguiled by the trailer for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, which images a fantastical world in which Brad Pitt ages backwards. As …
