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You can cancel Colbert. But you can't cancel satire
4+ hour, 43+ min ago (462+ words) If you've watched the final episodes of "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert," you won't have missed the sense that something monumental is ending. When Jimmy Kimmel, Jimmy Fallon, John Oliver and Seth Meyers appeared on the show, Colbert's fellow…...
"Rooster" ends with women in the lead
1+ week, 1+ day ago (934+ words) The following contains spoilers from Season 1 of "Rooster," including the finale. That's part of why he values his friend's opinion of his book and its cover image of a sexpot whose head is edited out of the frame. Dylan playfully…...
How the "SNL" sausage gets made
4+ week, 1+ day ago (151+ words) (Focus Features) Lorne Michaels stars in director Morgan Neville's documentary "Lorne" "Lorne" speeds past the horror stories of coked-up late writing nights and overworked employees. Those tales are all par for the course at this point. The film isn't excusing…...
"King of the Hill" is the real America, if we allow it to be
9+ mon, 2+ week ago (812+ words) Mike Judge and Greg Daniels built their two-dimensional Texas Everyman to ensure we could never quite be certain. The Hank Hill we came to know during the original 1997-to-2010 run of "King of the Hill" is a registered Republican, but…...
Julia Wertz finds the humor in motherhood's body horror
1+ mon, 3+ day ago (1205+ words) Salon. com Julia Wertz finds the humor in motherhood's body horror In "Bury Me Already," the cartoonist takes on isolation, family and the eternal guilt trip of art and parenting In one scene from Julia Wertz's 2023 graphic memoir, "Impossible People:…...
"Turrible": "Saturday Night Live" gives Bondi send-off via Charles Barkley
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (235+ words) It finally happened. There was enough news last week to start "Saturday Night Live" without Donald Trump. The sketch show kicked off the show with a take on a viral moment from NBA legend and broadcaster Charles Barkley. In the…...
"Saturday Night Live" comes to bury Kristi Noem
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (289+ words) Saturday Night Live" took multiple shots at departing DHS head Kristi Noem. Noem, who was removed from her position in Donald Trump's Cabinet this week, was the focus of the show's cold open and weekly news segment. In the former,…...
"Saturday Night Live"'s middle ground problem
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (661+ words) Days before Storrie's episode, The Athletic announced that Minnesota Wild defenseman Quinn Hughes " fresh off besting Team Canada to win Olympic gold with the U. S. men's hockey team in Milan " would join Storrie on the show before heading over to appear…...
Catherine O'Hara knew that motherhood can be a slapstick comedy
3+ mon, 2+ week ago (1027+ words) Motherhood's long association with martyrdom is a real turn-off. Few understood that better than Catherine O'Hara, who played one of cinema's most self-sacrificing moms " and several of its least. As harried Kate Mc Callister in "Home Alone," she hurtles across…...
"Shrinking" is a therapeutic retreat from an ugly world
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (762+ words) Recently, I spent too much time trying to figure out if it ever rains on "Shrinking." The answer is yes, but infrequently. Two episodes into its third season, Jimmy Laird (played by co-creator Jason Segel) and his crew have yet…...