Celebrities larking about on trip-of-a-lifetime travel shows are all the rage. Eugene Levy’s The Reluctant Traveler (Apple TV) is one example, Conan O’Brien Must Go (HBO Max/Crave) is another. Stanley Tucci, Eva Longoria, and others have gotten into the act. New to the genre is Bill Murray, who eventually invites two of his brothers and
He might grumble about the title, but cranky TV critic Bill Needle (played by Dave Thomas) would give at least three thumbs up for SCTV: The Greatest Show You’ve Never Heard Of. The long-awaited documentary premieres Friday on Netflix. Allow me to add my thumb to the review. The TV shows that stay with you
The Tale of Norm Macdonald, streaming now on Netflix, is two hours of clips you’ve watched and laughed out loud at a dozen times or more on social media. We see all the Hall of Fame moments: the final Letterman appearance; the time Macdonald ridiculed Carrot Top and Courtney Thorne-Smith on Conan O’Brien; the relentless,
Before Late Night with David Letterman and within a year or two of Saturday Night Live and SCTV there was a little show that firmly planted the irony flag on the comedy landscape: Fernwood 2Nite. This offshoot from the equally groundbreaking Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman deconstructed talk show television in a way rarely seen on
Son of a Critch, Canada’s most popular sitcom, had a problem in 2025. Benjamin Evan Ainsworth, who plays young Mark Critch circa 1990-ish, had grown into a teen sensation. First, HBO Max hired him to work a few episodes of House of the Dragon. Then there was a little project, based on a Nintendo videogame,
I want to believe in the revised AppleTV series Ted Lasso. Four episodes in, I’m still going on faith. There are, however, some positive signs. Expectations are admittedly huge for this new variation of this Emmy Award-winning series, which soared in its initial run of three seasons. It became the show out of COVID where
These are bleak days for film and TV comedy. There’s no shortage of it, of course. What is in short supply is laughs. There’s a reason why comedies are on streaming services; nobody in their right mind would pay to see them. Balls Up, Ladies First, 72 Hours, Little Brother all have, at best, a
When I was on “Humble” Howard Glassman and Fred Patterson’s Internet radio show this past week I picked up a good tip on a current comedy movie. This isn’t the first time this has happened. Every two months I guest as their go-to TV critic, and inevitably Howard has seen way more news shows than