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2017
Dec
30
 
 
Between streaming services, broadcast, and cable, the ability to find content personalized to your own tastes has never been greater – and the chance you’ll be able to share last night’s surprise twist has never been slimmer...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Dec
28
 
 
To celebrate a big year of “Car Pool Karaoke,” “Drop the Mic,” and “Crosswalk Musical” and many other gags, The Late Late Show with James Corden has put together this charming supercut of the host’s singing and dancing talents...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Dec
10
 
 
Late Night with Seth Meyers writer Amber Ruffin shows Seth how a real man apologizes, in the style of recent sexual harassers, after committing her own style of blatant assault – a left-cross to the jaw...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Nov
19
 
 
SNL took an opportunity to serve up former alum and now-U.S. Senator Al Franken for a pre-Thanksgiving carving over the recent news of the sexual misconduct accusations made against him.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Nov
7
 
 
With their corny lines and canned laugh tracks, ‘80s sitcoms are never far from ironic reference. For the recent premiere of the second season of Stranger Things, Jimmy Kimmel Live has chimed in and created its own mash up for that horror series since it has a fair amount of retro cliches of its own...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Oct
29
 
 
As part of our continuing celebration of Too Funny to Fail, the new Hulu documentary about the rise and flop of the Dana Carvey Show in 1996 (David reviews it here,) now comes the recurring gag “Grandma the Clown” – more primetime anti-comedy from the writing team headed by Louis C.K. and and Robert Smigel...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Oct
21
 
 
Too Funny to Fail, the new documentary about the rise and flop of The Dana Carvey Show in 1996 is now available at Hulu. (David reviews it, here.) Aside from the story of Carvey’s high-wire alt-comedy act on prime-time TV for ABC, Too Funny to Fail also recounts the recruitment of a now-astonishing all-star team of players...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Sep
10
 
 
Since two of the TVWW editors grew up in Florida in the ‘60s (and soldiered through black and white broadcasting and paper tracking maps) it’s worthwhile noting that while modern storm coverage is wall-to-wall, it shouldn’t be taken for granted..
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Sep
3
 
 
File under guilty pleasures, but we well remember tuning into the annual 24 hour MDA Telethon when Jerry Lewis hosted it for almost five decades. As donations for research rolled in, audience treats included Lewis’ usual antics...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Aug
22
 
 
Our tribute to Jerry Lewis continues with this Martin Short homage to Lewis from his old SCTV days (1982-3). Short proved himself a brilliant comic and impressionist early, playing Lewis as surreally appearing in atypical film roles – once as the Robert Duvall character in Tender Mercies and in this one, an Ingmar Bergman send-up entitled “Scenes From an Idiots Marriage"...