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The World’s Biggest Randy Marsh Fan Has Finally Perfected Her ‘South Park’ Shrine
Despite the many millions of adoring fans across the globe who may protest the title, there’s only one person on the internet who deserves to be called the World’s #1 Lorde-Lover. When Randy Marsh first entered the South Park universe in the Season One episode “Volcano,” he looked...
Don’t Forget That the Olympics Snubbed Springfield Because of Bart Simpson’s Stand-Up Act
While the world enjoys the pageantry of the 2024 Summer Olympics hosted by the good cheese-eating surrender monkeys of Paris, France, let’s remember that, if the Olympic committee hadn’t won the gold medal for Worst Audience, this year’s mediocre mascot would have nothing on the GOAT Springy.
The Olympics Kick Things Off by Drowning The Minions
Today marks the official kickoff of the 2024 Olympic games, a celebration of athletic excellence, international cooperation, and… adorable, yet murderous, yellow cartoon blobs?. The Opening Ceremony featured a parade of boats traveling down the Seine river, as well as a performance from Lady Gaga, but all of these...
Jon Stewart Says That Traditional TV News Is Icing Him Out
Now that the lame-stream liberal media is trying to cut Jon Stewart out of the national conversation, will Fox News give him a streaming series?. When Stewart returned to his old haunt at The Daily Show for a part-time, once-weekly hosting gig, he brought some of the habits he learned during his brief and corporate-unfriendly stint at AppleTV+ with him to his Comedy Central comeback. In addition to the silver stubble and wizened wit that is in stark contrast to the characteristically youthful feel of Stewart’s early days at The Daily Show, Stewart also insisted that the comedy news institution assist him in continuing his burgeoning podcast career with The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart, a less joke-heavy, more conversational companion piece to his Monday night Daily Show episodes.
Jordan Peele’s Horror-Prank Reboot Sounds Like a Real Nightmare
Jordan Peele has proven himself to be the master of two genres. There’s comedy, as evidenced by his hilarious sketches on Key & Peele. Then there’s horror, with his Oscar-winning work on movies such as Get Out. So I guess it’s a natural that Peele and his Monkeypaw...
Writer Quit ‘SNL’ After Show Made Her Feel She Was ‘Back in Middle School’
Comedian Claire O’Kane was pretty pumped when she landed a writing job on Saturday Night Live. As a kid, she searched GeoCities sites for the inside dope on how comics like Chris Kattan landed on the show. In 2022, her childhood SNL dreams came true. “Once you get that job you’re like, Oh, this is it,” she told Marc Maron on the WTF podcast. “This is the goal.”
J.D. Vance and Troy McClure from ‘The Simpsons’ May Share a ‘Romantic Abnormality’
J.D. Vance’s vice presidential campaign isn’t going so well. It hasn’t even been two weeks since former president/current guy who thinks Hannibal Lecter is a real person Donald Trump selected Vance as his running mate (seemingly because he was enchanted by the author and senator’s “beautiful blue eyes”), yet Vance has already found himself in the middle of a headline-dominating scandal concerning a rumor that he once went full “Andrew from Big Mouth” on a couch.
Buzz Aldrin Did His Moon Walk in a Boot Full of Pee
Having a body in space is ridiculously complicated, and we don’t just mean existing on a three-dimensional plane, as if that weren’t hard enough. We’re talking about the stars-and-darkness kind of space. Even the most basic functions of breathing without an atmosphere and moving without gravity are the stuff of nightmares, let alone managing all of the disgusting byproducts constantly pouring forth from your fetid flesh vessel. It’s gotta go somewhere, and historically, the systems for handling it in space have worked… not very well.
An Austrian Art Gallery Has Devoted an Entire Exhibit to 'The Simpsons'
There was once a time when The Simpsons was considered to be so crass and uncultured that the show was publicly derided by America’s First Family, and the mere sight of Bart Simpson on a T-shirt was cause for scandal. But that’s all changed now. The show has been...
Lucille Ball Yelled at the Studio Audience for Not Laughing at Desi Arnaz Jr.’s Sitcom Pilot
Before Dana Carvey made it big on Saturday Night Live — even before he co-starred with Mickey Rooney in the sitcom flop One of the Boys or as a helicopter cop in Blue Thunder — he filmed a pilot for a situation comedy that co-starred ultimate showbiz nepo baby Desi Arnaz Jr. The son of America’s favorite comedy couple, Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, never duplicated his parents’ success despite his mother’s best efforts.
Chevy Chase Was Gonna Remake Jerry Lewis’ Holocaust Clown Movie
Among the films playing at this year’s prestigious Venice Film Festival is a documentary called From Darkness to Light, all about Jerry Lewis’ notorious 1972 Holocaust-set dramedy The Day the Clown Cried. The film was famously never released to the public, who, to be fair, weren’t exactly clamoring for a movie in which the guy from The Nutty Professor plays a circus clown who ushers children into the gas chambers.
Dan Harmon Changed the Course of the ‘Rick and Morty’ Universe After Fans Guessed This Plot Twist
When it comes to Rick and Morty plot twists, some secrets are a bit like Schrödinger's cat — they're both canon and not canon until you post about them in the subreddit. Ever since the show’s very first season, the secrets, Easter eggs and possible hidden plot lines of the Rick and Morty universe have been the focus of outrageous and meticulously crafted fan theories that are only matched in complexity by the show’s actual storylines. Using a near-infinite number of universes within the Central Finite Curve and an equal amount of Rick and Mortys with which to postulate, the Rick and Morty fandom is constantly trying to get ahead of the writers and predict massive, multiverse-altering plot twists before they happen.
When the World Decided Michael Bolton Was Funny and Cool
Writer Bill Zehme profiled easy-listening icon Barry Manilow for Rolling Stone in 1990, and he opened his piece with a devastating observation: “When your name is a punchline, you live in hell. Barry Manilow lives in hell.” Manilow’s fans disagreed, of course, but for the rest of us, Zehme tapped into something deeply true about our feelings regarding the adult-contemporary artist. His songs were so epically cringey that his very name came to embody something noxious. His name became a shorthand for cheesy.
Songs That Took Decades to Become Hits
Singles are like baby birds: They get pushed out of the nest and one chance to either fly away or fall to their gooey deaths. Well, most of the time. Sometimes, the forces of the universe come together to resurrect a song decades after it’s been declared DOA. Such as…
An Original ‘Despicable Me’ Screenwriter Couldn’t Believe That Universal Changed His Minions Lore
Is the Despicable Me franchise a Darwinist project in which the Minions started their evolution back at the beginning of life on Earth, or did intelligent design deliver Gru his wacky yellow Tic-Tac workers? More importantly, are the films’ writers finally ready to answer the Hitler question?. When Despicable...
7 Sitcoms That Turned Unknowns Into A-Listers
As the situation comedy disappears from broadcast television, we might be losing more than simply 23 minutes of laughs surrounded by Progressive commercials. Over the past 50 years, the sitcom has been a surefire cannon from which to launch unknown comic actors onto the A-list. Here are 7 sitcoms that...
An Extra Told Edgar Wright That ‘Shaun of the Dead’ Would Go Straight-to-Video
Some artists who worked on Shaun of the Dead didn't believe that the future cult classic could even secure a theatrical release — taking a Batman soundtrack to the brain will make anyone think crazy thoughts. When Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg started filming their first joint feature in...
David Spade Just Can’t Quit Old Pal Kid Rock
Friends of David Spade are worried about what it means to be “friends with David Spade.” On this week’s Fly on the Wall podcast, Spade confessed that people in his sphere have encouraged him to cut ties with his pal and Joe Dirt co-star Kid Rock. “People are like, You should never talk to him again,” sighed Spade. “And I go, ‘Well, you can’t start with someone, have a good beginning of a friendship and then (ditch him for) the way he thinks now and talks.’”
Warner Bros. Discovery Continues to Screw Over ‘Looney Tunes’
It’s no secret that Warner Bros. Discovery has treated some of the company’s most iconic characters with as much care and respect as Sylvester the Cat gives to Tweety Bird. After shelving a completed Batgirl spin-off and a new Scooby-Doo movie, just so that they could be used as tax write-offs, the corporation made headlines for similarly scrapping the release of the promising, and 100 percent complete, Looney Tunes feature Coyote vs. Acme.
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