Branching out is never easy, especially if you are a staple in pop culture like Trey Parker and Matt Stone. With the explosion of "South Park" in 1997, animation and comedy were changed forever. What began as a show many dismissed as crude [...]
I remember visiting Johnny 5 in the theater. "Short Circuit" had great family appeal with a lovable robot and goofy humor. I wandered if this would be one of those movies that didn't hold up well after 19 years. We have all revisited movies [...]
Reality television has taken over. Cameras seem to be everywhere nowadays to capture every aspect of daily living from a variety of people. MTV seems to really love airing these moments of raw comedy. What most people recognize as the beginning of a new [...]
A possible re-telling of "The Wizard of Oz, Terry Gilliam's 1981 "Time Bandits" contains all the usual irreverent, wacky, British humor we've grown to know and love. And puppets and trolls. David Rappaport stars as Randall, a [...]
For a station that is known for its weekend football coverage, Fox seems to like fumbling a lot. They dropped the ball on "Undeclared" and "Wonderfalls". They had a fumble recovery with "Family Guy", which almost cost them [...]
Usually noted for their gross-you-out style, both Peter and Bobby Farrelly (There's Something About Mary) have a winning hit on their hands as they mix romance and baseball with winning results, without excessive nastiness, in their latest film [...]
Life in Bocci Park Queens, where family, great Italian food and baseball are king, at least in the eyes of Dino Condito (Carmine Famiglietti) who dreams of one day playing for his favorite Major League baseball team, the New York Mets. Dino and his cousin [...]
I am usually not too fond of actors or celebrities that are way over-exposed in the media, which good or bad, forces me to steer clear from certain projects of said celebrities. This however was not the case with Ashton Kutcher's latest film "A [...]
Monty Python is the Beatles of comedy. The group of six (Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin) set the standard for sketch comedy and branched out to influence the film industry. As many of us were, I was [...]
Often tongue-in-cheek, Larry David (co-creator of Seinfeld) never ceases to amaze me at the amount humor he can load into any given situation, thanks in part to his say and do whatever he wants attitude, in the award-winning HBO comedy series "Curb [...]
