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Modern Progressivism is a Killjoy

On June 12, 1987 Ronald Reagan, in a speech in West Berlin, told Mikhail Gorbachev, the Ge...

television
Star-Studded SNL Special Exemplifies Show’s Inherent Contradictions

Sunday night's 40th-anniversary special for Saturday Night Live achieved impressive rat...

humor-2
Carvey: Entertainment Industry Punishes Political Evenhandedness

It's not news that Hollywood and the entertainment community in general have a strong prog...

people
Joan Rivers: A Little Heroine

Comedienne Joan Rivers died yesterday at the age of 81, after a medical procedure to repai...

movies
The Tragic Implications of Comedian Robin Williams’s Suicide

The death by suicide of actor-comedian Robin Williams will undoubtedly set loose a torr...

humor-2
When Harold Met Norm–The Real Harold Ramis

If you want to know a little more about Harold Ramis, the widely admired comic actor-write...

television
‘Adventure Time’ Is Good, Clean, Surrealistic Fun

W. S. Moore III recommends 'Adventure Time' for ten-year-old boys of all ages and either s...

journalism
James Cameron vs. Glenn Beck

"King of the World" director James Cameron is holding a grudge over Glenn Beck making a jo...

movies
‘Cop Out’ Doesn’t Just Stink, But It’s Racist, Too?

The new movie "Cop Out" has created a lot of buzz, and not just because critics are hamm...

movies
Hokey but Likable ‘Spy Next Door’ Emphasizes Good Values

Jackie Chan has always been among the most amiable and intentionally comical of action fil...

books
Tie-In Novels for ‘Psych,’ ‘Burn Notice’

After the success of several tie-in novels featuring characters from the USA Network detec...

manners-and-morals
The Splendid Mr. Rickles

I haven't got around to seeing Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project yet, but I certainly wi...

movies
Buster Keaton Featured Today

Turner Classic Movies features one of the greatest filmmakers of all time today: Buster Ke...

mysteries
A Series of Appealing Mysteries

The BBC TV program Mayo, now showing on BBC America as The Gil Mayo Mysteries, is an exemn...

mysteries
“Monk” and “Psych”

The USA Network mystery-comedy series Monk and Psych are both entering the season's stretc...

television
“The 1/2 Hour News Hour”—Review

Contrary to numerous gloomy internet reports prior to its airing, tonight's premiere episo...

television
“The Half-Hour News Hour” to Premiere This Sunday

Pascal Fervor kindly forwarded us the following email message regarding the new comedy pro...

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The Inestimable Larry Miller

Larry Miller is one of the funniest comedians around. Rather like a younger Bob Newhart bu...

manners-and-morals
Guest Article: The New Avant-garde: Clean Comedy

Our friend Mike D'Virgilio has posted an interesting article on a cultural trend toward &q...

mysteries
Inspector Mom—Mysteriously Good

 Confession time: I make a habit of not watching the Lifetime TV network, which appea...