2015: The Year Comedy Music Broke
In late December 2015, like at the end of each calendar year, Barret Hansen, better known for nearly half a century as top-hatted madman Dr. […]
The Night Siskel and Ebert Took Over ‘SNL’
Despite the show’s title and producer Lorne Michaels’ decades-long commitment to putting live comedy on network television, Saturday Night […]
The Dangerous Comedy of Bernard ManningThough he played Las Vegas in the late 1970s and was interviewed by Joan Rivers in the 1980s, British comedian Bernard Manning (1930-2007) […]
The Enigma of Rick MoranisA June 1981 episode of NBC’s SCTV Network 90 begins with a straight-to-the-camera editorial by Rick Moranis, assuming the role of cranky […]
Ren, Stimpy, and the Horrors of ManlinessWith tonight’s debut of The Splat!, a much-hyped late-night programming block on TeenNick consisting of vintage Nickelodeon shows from the […]