Oct 20, 2018 | Comedians, Television
There have been a few times when I’ve sworn I was done with Bill Maher because he did something incredibly anti-science on his show, like his dangerous anti-vaccination remarks or the interview with the “doctor” who claimed he had an AIDS cure made...
Oct 16, 2018 | Television
I like Alec Baldwin’s podcast, “Here’s The Thing,” but was surprised when ABC essentially picked it up and turned it from audio-only content into a weekly television show. One-on-one conversation has never worked in primetime (late night is a...
Sep 30, 2018 | Comedians, Picture of the Day, Television
Three years ago, I wrote a piece about Elayne Boosler, one of the seminal comics of the 1970s and 1980s. Since then, I’ve followed Elayne on YouTube as she has posted clips from some of the many standup specials she did on cable, and I just ordered her new boxed...
Sep 25, 2018 | Television
I saw an item lamenting the fact that James Lipton is stepping down as host of “Inside The Actor’s Studio,” which will move from Bravo to Ovation next year. C’mon, give the guy a break. He started doing the show when he was 68 and is now 92...
Sep 17, 2018 | Television
From my live-tweeting of the Emmy Awards telecast: How can presenters possibly mispronounce winners’ names, as two did tonight? You had one job! The lame bit he did with Maya Rudolph at The Emmys continues an uninterrupted string of times Fred Armisen has failed to...
Sep 12, 2018 | Picture of the Day, Television
Thanks to Stu Shostak, here’s a CBS promo for “The Dick Van Dyke Show” promoting its fifth and final season in the fall of 1965. Notice the emphasis on physical humor rather than characters and jokes. By the way, a heads up in case you want to watch...
