Category Archives: TV

Hot Midterm Action

Sure, it’s football season, but who can concentrate on football when it’s midterm election season too? If you said Democrats, score one for you. With the Republicans all excited about their Tea Party candidates, and liberals in a lover’s squabble with their fearless leaders, it all but seems the outcome is certain. Of course, that’s what they said about the Giants and the Patriots in Super Bowl XLII. Could Nancy Pelosi be the next Eli Manning?

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Mean Cuisine

Before the Emmy-winning The Colbert Report, before the Emmy-winning The Office, before even the Emmy-winning (and Canadian Comedy Awards award-winning) The Daily Show, comedy icons Stephen Colbert and Steve Carell appeared together in this sketch. Whether it’s a commentary on people working jobs that aren’t a good fit or on the disgustingness of food (which is pretty gross when you think about it), we’ll leave that for the academics to decide.

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9/02/10

Today is 9/02/10. Here’s The Ben Stiller Show‘s tribute to the show that made today’s date possible.

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Tricks Are For Kids

The Kids in the Hall, not to be confused with New Kids on the Block, also happened to be one one of the great all-boy groups of the early 90s. And, not unlike New Kids on the Block, they’ve staged a reunion. But instead of a 48 city arena tour, The Kids in the Hall have put together a new series for IFC, Death Comes To Town, currently airing. Incidentally, which one is your favorite? Mine was always Joey McIntyre, um, I mean Dave Foley. Here’s a clip from the new show…

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Working Wonders

If you don’t want your favorite childhood shows ruined, you shouldn’t be messing around on on the interwebs. This video, Silent Wonder Years, was created by comedian/writer/producer Jon Friedman (The Rejection Show) who you can catch tonight on SmackDown: The Best of ComedySmack live at Carolines at 8PM.

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Jimmy Opens the Emmys

In case you missed the opening bit at the Emmys, with host Jimmy Fallon, Tina Fey, Jon Hamm, Kate Gosselin, Betty White, Jorge Garcia and the cast of Glee, here it is in all its glory. If this doesn’t fill you with glee, nothing will. Aside from joining a glee club.

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Drinkers and Thinkers

Jimmy Fallon did well as a first-time Emmy host last night, but previous Golden Globes host Ricky Gervais (we’re told he’s also known for a couple of other things) stole his segment with this diatribe touching on important issues like beer, Mel Gibson, and the consequences of Mel Gibson drinking beer.

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Pumping Irony

Huffington Post presents…the most ridiculous exercise equipment of all time.

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The Blago Show

Former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich has been proven to be an innocent man, may his accusers burn in hell! That is, if you consider every juror but one thinking he was guilty of everything to be a ringing exoneration. And we hear that one juror was just mad he got stuck with the Blago trial instead of Lindsay Lohan’s. At any rate, Blago went on The Daily Show to explain that while he may have lost his child-like innocence, he hasn’t lost his innocence on corruption charges…yet.

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Best Behavior

In this clip from prank show Girls Behaving Badly, comediennes Chelsea Handler and Kira Soltanovich disprove the theory (or is it just a sitcom title?) that three is company. Catch Kira Soltanovich at the next SmackDown: The Best of ComedySmack, our monthly live show at Carolines where we feature our favorite acts. This month’s show, on Weds. Sep.1st (9:30pm), is hosted by Giulia Rozzi (Stripped Stories) and includes Christian Finnegan (Comedy Central Presents), Todd Barry (Lucky Louie), Jamie Lee (Last Comic Standing), Jon Friedman (The Rejection Show), Lance Weiss (Ghandi, is that you?) and video group The Full Ginsburg. (Call Carolines at 212-757-4100 for reservations and use code word “SMACK” for $5 tickets)

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