Kidding Finale Recap: I Am ListeningAs Kidding wraps its first season, Mr. Pickles’ Puppet Time is done for the foreseeable future, but most of the series’ tumult is still in play.
Remembering Nanette FabrayIn the early 1940s, when Nanette Fabray was in her early 20s, she was touring with a musical revue called Meet the People. By chance one night, […]
‘Living Biblically’: Biblically BadLiving Biblically, which premiered Monday night, is the newest multi-cam CBS sitcom that reinforces all of the worst stereotypes about CBS […]
Not My ‘Cartoon President’The first satirical portrayal of Hitler on film was in 1940, when Moe Howard lampooned Hitler in the Three Stooges short You Nazty Spy! Later […]
NBC’s ‘A.P. Bio’ Falls Short of Its PotentialMike O’Brien’s new show A.P. Bio, whose pilot previewed on NBC last night in advance of the official series premiere on March 1st, is Glenn […]
Paranoia in ‘High Maintenance’s Second SeasonThe new season of High Maintenance starts in the same spot HBO’s first season started: with the semi-protagonist weed dealer, The Guy, getting […]
‘Portlandia’ Says Goodbye at Just the Right TimeSeason 1 of Portlandia opened with a song that promised a Pacific Northwest heaven: it was like the 1990s forever, “when people were content to […]
Brief Eulogies for the Sitcoms We Lost in 2017As 2017 draws to a close, we take a closer look at a few of the notable sitcoms that aired their final episodes in 2017. To some we say a […]
‘Mrs. Maisel’ Is MarvelousThe Marvelous Mrs. Maisel is an incredibly joyful show. Given, of course, that it takes place in 1958 and the protagonist’s husband leaves her […]
Fall Comedy Reads: ‘The Daily Show (The Book)’Welcome to our Fall Comedy Reads series, where we take a closer look at some of the newly released comedy-related books worth checking out this […]
Fall Comedy Reads: Budd Friedman’s ‘The Improv’Welcome to our Fall Comedy Reads series, where we take a closer look at some of the newly released comedy-related books worth checking out this […]
The Ghosts of ‘Fuller House’Critics were understandably put off by Fuller House’s first season, which was packed full of in-jokes and meta gags for fans of Full House who […]
‘Transparent’ Goes on Tour in Season 4Writer’s note: While it seems inevitable that Ali Pfefferman (Gaby Hoffmann) will soon begin identifying as nonbinary (as creator Jill Soloway […]
The Long-Running Sitcoms We Lost in 2014Today, a sitcom making it to a second season is as notable as another return to Gilligan’s Island. Here, we pay tribute to some sitcoms we lost […]
Ken Finkleman and the Art of Being DerivativeLike many series of the mid-90s, 1996’s The Newsroom began as an imitator of The Larry Sanders Show. The latter show opened the door for the […]