With the disappointing election now behind us, I can forsake politics for the rest of the year and jump back into the even more disappointing arts culture beat. Not deeply enough to actually watch the dreck being shoveled on modern…
“It’s the smell, Jeff. I keep getting complaints.” – Landlord of convicted serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer In the first episode of the clunkily titled Dahmer — Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story, the new 10-part Netflix series created by Ryan Murphy…
When HBO’s prequel series to Game of Thrones airs on August 21, the streaming service will have something that the original series never did: the entire story is already written. Based on George R. R. Martin’s Fire and Blood, House…
Netflix Is a Joke is the name of a Netflix comedy festival that was held in Los Angeles from April 28 to May 8. It’s a curious title, because in comedy circles Netflix is indeed a joke — a streaming…
It turns out that the snarky, ironic humor of the type that made Stephen Colbert’s career irritates Stephen Colbert. He cries foul that those he characterizes as supporting an insurrection on January 6, 2021, now make jokes about the arrest…
HBO is working on a sequel to its hit series Game of Thrones, according to the Hollywood Reporter. The original show, which ran from 2011 to 2019, was famous for its willingness to kill off main characters; however, Jon Snow…
As “woke corporations” like Disney begin to learn that American shareholders and consumers are sick of companies virtue-signaling at the cost of stock value and in defiance of Middle American mainstream family values, one of the biggest stories has been…
Of the many brilliant, hilarious gags in Mel Brooks’ classic The Producers (1967), my favorite is the one where theatrical producer Zero Mostel and his accountant partner, Gene Wilder, have been up all night delving through a stack of scripts…
One of Vladimir Putin’s many recent contributions to international cultural exchange is that his invasion of Ukraine has brought renewed attention to Servant of the People, the one-camera TV sitcom created by, produced by, and starring the current president of…
