The Paley Center for Media, which has locations in both New York and LA, dedicates itself to the preservation of television and radio history. Inside their vast archives of more than 120,000 television shows, commercials, and radio programs, there are thousands of important and funny programs waiting to be rediscovered by comedy nerds like you and me. Each week, this column will highlight a new gem waiting for you at the Paley Library to quietly laugh at. (Seriously, it’s a library, so keep it down.)
Here’s the thing about topical humor: it’s very topical. Today I’m going to attempt a difficult thing by talking about the American version of That [...]
The Paley Center for Media, which has locations in both New York and LA, dedicates itself to the preservation of television and radio history. Inside their vast archives of more than 120,000 television shows, commercials, and radio programs, there are thousands of important and funny programs waiting to be rediscovered by comedy nerds like you and me. Each week, this column will highlight a new gem waiting for you at the Paley Library to quietly laugh at. (Seriously, it’s a library, so keep it down.)
Hey, do you know The Goon Show? It was a radio show that aired on the BBC in the fifties that was written chiefly [...]
The Paley Center for Media, which has locations in both New York and LA, dedicates itself to the preservation of television and radio history. Inside their vast archives of more than 120,000 television shows, commercials, and radio programs, there are thousands of important and funny programs waiting to be rediscovered by comedy nerds like you and me. Each week, this column will highlight a new gem waiting for you at the Paley Library to quietly laugh at. (Seriously, it’s a library, so keep it down.)
Before finding success on The Hogan Family and long before his career resurgence that began with Arrested Development, Jason Bateman was appearing on a [...]
Cam wants to go home to Missouri, Phil worries about being a good dad, Claire falls down, Gloria talks about growing up in Columbia, and Mitch is sarcastic. Sounds like a regular episode of Modern Family, right? Nope! Gotcha! Boom! Ha! (Okay, I'm milking it.) All of those were actually things the actors, not their characters, expressed during the show's Paley Center panel last night. Either the casting for this show was really spot-on, or the actors are changing to resemble their characters, the way people change to look like their dogs. (Speaking of which, Sofia Vergara hates Stella just like Gloria does! Another similarity!)
The Paley Center for Media, which has locations in both New York and LA, dedicates itself to the preservation of television and radio history. Inside their vast archives of more than 120,000 television shows, commercials, and radio programs, there are thousands of important and funny programs waiting to be rediscovered by comedy nerds like you and me. Each week, this column will highlight a new gem waiting for you at the Paley Library to quietly laugh at. (Seriously, it’s a library, so keep it down.)
One of the big motives behind this series of articles is not so much to serve as a reminder of these shows from the [...]
The Paley Center for Media, which has locations in both New York and LA, dedicates itself to the preservation of television and radio history. Inside their vast archives of more than 120,000 television shows, commercials, and radio programs, there are thousands of important and funny programs waiting to be rediscovered by comedy nerds like you and me. Each week, this column will highlight a new gem waiting for you at the Paley Library to quietly laugh at. (Seriously, it’s a library, so keep it down.)
This week, Warren Littlefield's oral history on NBC's Must-See TV block, Top of the Rock, hit stores and it serves as an entertaining [...]
Recently, the Paley Center did their Paley Center thang with the Daily Show writers. In this clip they explain how they crank out a show's worth of material in only the time between 10:00 and 11:30AM. (For comparison, in that same time period today, all I did was write those first two sentences. I wrote this parenthetical at 11:34.) All the clips are really great, especially the one where Wyatt Cynac and John Oliver explain how they got their jobs. In total, the videos run about 20 minutes or the time it takes these guys to write the show's second act. [Via]
The Paley Center for Media, which has locations in both New York and LA, dedicates itself to the preservation of television and radio history. Inside their vast archives of more than 120,000 television shows, commercials, and radio programs, there are thousands of important and funny programs waiting to be rediscovered by comedy nerds like you and me. Each week, this column will highlight a new gem waiting for you at the Paley Library to quietly laugh at. (Seriously, it’s a library, so keep it down.)
No one has left me an angry comment or emailed me about this yet, but as of writing, four out of the twenty-three articles [...]
The Paley Center for Media, which has locations in both New York and LA, dedicates itself to the preservation of television and radio history. Inside their vast archives of more than 120,000 television shows, commercials, and radio programs, there are thousands of important and funny programs waiting to be rediscovered by comedy nerds like you and me. Each week, this column will highlight a new gem waiting for you at the Paley Library to quietly laugh at. (Seriously, it’s a library, so keep it down.)
Odds are, you've heard of Bob and Ray before. Though their names probably haven't reached the level of Laurel and Hardy or Abbott and [...]
The Paley Center for Media, which has locations in both New York and LA, dedicates itself to the preservation of television and radio history. Inside their vast archives of more than 120,000 television shows, commercials, and radio programs, there are thousands of important and funny programs waiting to be rediscovered by comedy nerds like you and me. Each week, this column will highlight a new gem waiting for you at the Paley Library to quietly laugh at. (Seriously, it’s a library, so keep it down.)
Before Bill Cosby, the television landscape looked very different. In 1965, alongside Robert Culp, stand-up comedian Cosby was cast in the drama I, Spy, [...]
The Paley Center for Media, which has locations in both New York and LA, dedicates itself to the preservation of television and radio history. Inside their vast archives of more than 120,000 television shows, commercials, and radio programs, there are thousands of important and funny programs waiting to be rediscovered by comedy nerds like you and me. Each week, this column will highlight a new gem waiting for you at the Paley Library to quietly laugh at. (Seriously, it’s a library, so keep it down.)
This might be heresy to some of you, but I just can’t get into the early seasons of SNL. I can appreciate their importance [...]
The Paley Center for Media, which has locations in both New York and LA, dedicates itself to the preservation of television and radio history. Inside their vast archives of more than 120,000 television shows, commercials, and radio programs, there are thousands of important and funny programs waiting to be rediscovered by comedy nerds like you and me. Each week, this column will highlight a new gem waiting for you at the Paley Library to quietly laugh at. (Seriously, it’s a library, so keep it down.)
I don't think I'm going out on a limb here if I say that the bulk of the people reading this article have probably seen [...]
The Paley Center for Media, which has locations in both New York and LA, dedicates itself to the preservation of television and radio history. Inside their vast archives of more than 120,000 television shows, commercials, and radio programs, there are thousands of important and funny programs waiting to be rediscovered by comedy nerds like you and me. Each week, this column will highlight a new gem waiting for you at the Paley Library to quietly laugh at. (Seriously, it’s a library, so keep it down.)
On the March 9th, 2012 episode of Studio 360, a public radio show hosted by Spy Magazine's Kurt Andersen, there was a segment in [...]
An hour-plus of the cast, creator and producers of Community chit-chatting at the Paley Center for Media about the funny things Ken Jeong does with his tongue to make his co-stars laugh during takes? Okay, it's a weird choice for your third and final wish from the genie you found in this old computer, but poof: granted.
