Andrea Martin has a new NBC series, Great News, and it’s no surprise that after starting her comedy career, ahem, 40 years ago on Canada’s SCTV, (Second City Television) her physical comedy has lasting star power... her work on the landmark SCTV sketch comedy series with Martin Short, Eugene Levy and Catherine O’Hara ahem, 40 years ago, still has legs...

2017

Apr

REEL PRESIDENTS By Eric Gould

Here’s Dana Carvey’s rapid-fire Presidential impression parade – Nixon to Trump – from his most recent appearance on Conan. Apparently, President Carter had peanut-butta-pants, peanut-butta-shoes and peanut-butta-hair…

2017

Apr

STEPPING UP THE TENSIONS By Eric Gould

The annual North Korean military parade is always a spectacle, and generally no joking matter to watch. And it’s a safe bet that it was a worldwide audience this year since expectations about hardware sophisticated enough to reach neighboring countries and the United States were more or less confirmed...

2017

Apr

‘GIRLS’ LEAVES VEXED, FEARLESS By Eric Gould

In many respects, last week’s penultimate episode of Girls “Goodbye Tour” was the standard issue Hollywood ending to a successful series, but you knew that writer and director Lena Dunham couldn’t leave it at that...

2017

Apr

WHEN THE INSULTS WERE REVERSED By Eric Gould

Insult comic king Don Rickles passed away today (April 6, 2017), and YouTube is full of riotous Rickles moments throughout his 50-year comedy career... Rickles appeared on Johnny Carson’s Tonight Show over 100 times, and this clip from 1976 veers from the usual fare of Rickles loose in the hen house...

2017

Apr

SOME OF THE NEW AMAZON PILOT CROP SHOULD BEAR FRUIT By Eric Gould

Continuing with their development model, the streaming channel has recently released its annual crop of pilots, and there are two which should find audience interest...

2017

Apr

THE STUFF OF LEGEND By Eric Gould

Amazon has released their annual crop of new pilots and one, The Legend of Master Legend starring John Hawkes (Deadwood, Winter’s Bone) should be a sure-fire audience favorite... Turn's out the show is based on the self-styled real-life superhero in Orlando, Florida...

2017

Mar

PLAYFUL INNUENDO By Eric Gould

The jokes on Paul Reubens 1986-91 CBS series Pee-Wee’s Playhouse were usually down-the-middle for the young audience, but once in a while veered mildly into adult territory...

2017

Mar

A GRAPHIC INTRODUCTION By Eric Gould

The new FX series Feud: Bette and Joan is a throwback to old Hollywood and the tale of the bitter rivalry between Joan Crawford and Bette Davis and also has a an old-school title sequence inspired by the work of legendary designer Saul Bass....

2017

Mar

COLBERT PLAYS MADDOW, AND GOES LONG. VERY LONG. By Eric Gould

Whether you thought Rachel Maddow’s drop of Donald Trump 2005 IRS return on Tuesday night was a big scoop or a big fizzle, the one thing that we can maybe all agree on...

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Eric Gould

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Eric Gould is a writer in Boston and Associate Editor for tvworthwatching.com. With prior stints in art, music, photography and design, he casts a wide net across the media pool fishing for the smart, the surprising and the oddly compelling. He will have essays on Rectify, Six Feet Under and Girls in the upcoming “Finale: Considering the Ends of Television Series” from Syracuse University Press. Email him at gould@tvworthwatching.com

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