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

PUNCHING IN AT 'LATE NIGHT' By Eric Gould

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

Dec

(RE)BUILDING BRIDGES By David Bianculli

New Jersey has a lot of old bridges...

2017

Nov

CRASS REUNION By Eric Gould

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

STRANGER BREW By Eric Gould

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

SEND IN THE (OLD) CLOWNS By Eric Gould

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

ON THE MENU, COMING UP By Eric Gould

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

‘WILL & GRACE’ 2.0 By Linda Donovan

Of all the shows premiering this fall, few are more anticipated than the return to NBC of Will & Grace...

2017

Sep

WINDS OF CHANGE By Eric Gould

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

ENCORE By Eric Gould

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...

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