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The First Monster Series Jenna Ortega Starred in Was Rob Schneider’s Sitcom
Young Jenna Ortega had to encounter the boogeyman that is Rob Schneider → Read More
Five Eyebrow-Arching Credits on Mel Brooks’ Résumé
Looking back at his long career, Brooks has a wildly eclectic filmography, with some surprising movies under his belt. You might be aware that Brooks produced David Lynch’s The Elephant Man and David Cronenberg’s The Fly, and of course, cameoed in a low-budget Swedish Die Hard parody, but we found some other truly bizarre Brooks credits, too, such as… ‘Look Who’s Talking Too’ When the filmmakers… → Read More
The Five Worst ‘Friends’ Episodes That Aren’t ‘The One With Chandler’s Dad’
As for the rest of the more dubious entries in the Friends-verse (not including clip shows, which are a whole other level of suckage), let’s talk about… ‘The One With The Evil Orthodontist,’ Season 1, Episode 20 Synopsis: Rachel hooks up with Barry, her former fiancé, and Chandler goes nuts because a girl won’t return his answering machine messages, which we assure you was a thing in 1995. No… → Read More
Why ‘Cocaine Bear’ Opens the Same Way As ‘Wet Hot American Summer’ Does
Thank you, Jefferson Starship and directorial friendships → Read More
Jim Gaffigan’s Pre-Fame 1990s Commercials
Nobody shilled for Blockbuster quite like Gaffigan → Read More
Re-Release Robin Williams’ Secret Podcast
The rare celebrity podcast people wouldn’t hate has gone missing → Read More
Best ‘Star Trek’ Parodies, Ranked
Gags, the final frontier… These are the voyages of ‘Star Trek’s best send-ups → Read More
It’s Real Weird When ‘Parks and Rec’s Perd Hapley Shows Up in Serious Movies
Pawnee’s newsman is also part of the ‘Fast and Furious’ universe → Read More
‘Ant-Man’ Director Peyton Reed Is a ‘Back to the Future’ Legend
Before the MCU, he gave us the best DeLorean-based theme park ride → Read More
15 Trivia Tidbits About ‘Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee’
14 There Was A ‘Seinfeld’ Reunion Episode (That Isn’ t On Netflix) The special Super Bowl episode “The Over-Cheer” features, not a comedian, but Jason Alexander in character as George Costanza. Together they visit Tom’s Restaurant, which served as the exterior for Monk’s diner on Seinfeld, where they encounter Newman, played by Wayne Knight. Since Sony owns the rights to the Seinfeld gang, the… → Read More
Underrated Comedies You Definitely Should Be Watching
Need a laugh? Hate human interaction and reading books? We got a solution → Read More
Why Every Scrapped Monty Python Movie Never Made It to the Screen
As anyone who’s ever ironically bought SPAM at the supermarket or made a trip to the emergency room after a Silly Walk-induced injury can tell you: Monty Python is one of the greatest comedy acts ever. A big reason why people love the Pythons, apart from their progressive views of the lumberjack community, is their impressive cinematic output. But the best Python movies didn’t emerge into the… → Read More
Is Natasha Lyonne Less Columbo and More the Angel of Death in 'Poker Face'?
Everywhere Charlie Kale goes, someone dies. → Read More
The Absolute Worst Stuff Michael Did to Toby on ‘The Office’
How did Dunder Mifflin allow this to go on for so long? → Read More
The Best Behind-the-Scenes Comedy Documentaries
Beyond the usual assortment of neuroses and insecurities, it’s hard to say what makes a comedian tick. While those pesky restraining orders may keep you from asking them in person, luckily, even the most famous comics occasionally allow documentarians to follow them around like stalkers with expensive audiovisual equipment. In case you thought documentaries were all nature films and soulless… → Read More
The Five Best Comedies on Disney+ to Watch Right Now
Throw this Disney company a bone, won’t you? → Read More
15 Comedies to Catch on Streaming Before They Disappear at the End of the Month
Nobody goes through life without at least a few regrets, be they failed relationships, bad investments or failed relationships with investment bankers who were secretly screwing you out of a bunch of money. But the bitterest of all regrets, perhaps, is that of missing out on a movie or TV show after it’s been unceremoniously booted from a streaming service as if it were a common heckler at a… → Read More
Comedies That Were Inspired By Depressing Real-Life Stories
If the 10,000 Transformers sequels didn't tip you off, coming up with fresh new movie ideas can be a pretty tough job. So, occasionally, Hollywood screenwriters have taken inspiration from/cheated off of real-world events. Oddly, it turns out that some flat-out comedies began as true stories that really weren't funny at all. Thanks to a little movie magic, these depressing incidents were… → Read More
Every ‘SNL’ Performer Who Appeared on ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm,’ Ranked
15 Ana Gasteyer Gasteyer was mostly wasted as Elizabeth, one of Larry’s girlfriends, who becomes enraged when he buys her son a sewing machine for his birthday. One of the rare instances where Larry is 100 percent in the right and still gets screamed at. 14 Gary Kroeger Larry begins to suspect that the local weatherman – sorry meteorologist (played by Kroeger) is giving bogus reports,… → Read More
Actual 21st-Century Innovations Dumber Than Sabre’s Triangular Tablet from ‘The Office’
This may seem like a farcically terrible invention, one that could only exist within the world of a show so fake that winter somehow doesn’t exist. But never underestimate the stupidity of the human race because a number of real-life technological innovations from the 21st century were arguably just as dumb, if not dumber. For instance… 5 The Juicero Juicero was supposedly the juicer of the… → Read More