DAVID BIANCULLI

Founder / Editor

ERIC GOULD

Associate Editor

LINDA DONOVAN

Assistant Editor

Contributors

ALEX STRACHAN

MIKE HUGHES

KIM AKASS

MONIQUE NAZARETH

ROGER CATLIN

GARY EDGERTON

TOM BRINKMOELLER

GERALD JORDAN

NOEL HOLSTON

 
 
2015
Dec
29
 
 
Imagine for a moment that Michelle Dockery’s Lady Mary on Downton Abbey isn’t an entitled British royal, but an entitled young American... That’s what Stephen Colbert has done by hosting this inspired bit where Dockery, Hugh Bonneville and Allen Leech read a scene from a Season 5 Downton episode in American accents...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
Dec
25
 
 
Our own David Hinckley already has written about the significance of The Beatles finally offering their music and video catalogue on streaming sites... But where to begin, with such a voluminous and outstanding catalogue at your disposal? I suggest here: a relative rarity called “Hey Bulldog,” recorded by The Beatles in 1968...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
Dec
20
 
 
... and her name is Jeannie Klisiewicz. She’s the Good Cheer assistant on Ellen, and Ellen DeGeneres dispatched her to surprise a big-hearted, hard-working second grade teacher in Leesburg, Va., not only with a little airtime on her favorite daytime talk show, but with a few presents, too...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
Dec
16
 
 
With the new Star Wars hitting theaters (perhaps you’ve heard?), there’s no better time to revisit what I consider the funniest Star Wars lampoon of all time, hands down. Or paws down, since it involves Triumph the Insult Comic Dog, the acerbic canine puppet alter ego of comedian and writer Robert Smigel. In May 2002, upon the release of Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
Dec
8
 
 
British comedy team Greg Haiste and Marie Lawrence have put together an hilarious spoof Star Wars trailer in the style of naturalist British director Ken Loach and his 1969 film Kes, complete with appropriately weird Yorkshire dialect...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
Dec
6
 
 
Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo has had a tough season, first getting sidelined with a fractured collarbone in September and the same injury last month ended his 2015 season. But it’s not all bad. James Corden who comes over for a sleepover to see if they can become best friends, the way Corden used to do it as a kid...