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HBO to debut ‘Funny Or Die Presents’ sketch show

Wednesday, February 10th, 2010

It was only a matter of time: FunnyOrDie.com, the brainchild of Will Ferrell, Adam McKay, and Chris Henchy, is being launched as a television sketch show on HBO. In the last few years since its inception, the site has presented…

‘MacGyver’ creator wants to shut down ‘MacGruber’ movie

Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010

Thanks to TV Tattle for the tip-off: even after MacGyver went off the air, creator Lee Zlotoff retained the rights to adapt the concept to the silver screen, which he has been doing in partnership with New Line since before…

‘Family Guy: Something, Something, Something, Darkside’ Epically funny parody

Thursday, December 31st, 2009

The Direct-to-DVD Family Guy production,Something, Something, Something, Darkside was well worth the wait. This parody of the Star Wars film The Empire Strikes Back is just as good as Blue Harvest, which parodied the earlier Star Wars film A New…

‘Supernatural’ and the Meta Mirror

Monday, December 21st, 2009

The coolest thing about taking a class called “The Poetics of Television”? Why, the final project — you can read a whole collection of essays here on topics ranging from The L Word to Glee.

Supernatural is supported by its…

Taylor Swift Gives Solid ‘SNL’ Performance

Monday, November 9th, 2009

Jezebel has assembled a handy collection of the clips from Taylor Swift’s first SNL hosting gig. While none of them are fall-off-your-seat funny, Swift is undeniably charming.
Mocking the persona she’s cultivated in videos like “You Belong With Me”, she…

Inaccurate Porn Spoofs of Your Favorite TV Shows

Thursday, October 22nd, 2009

I don’t know how Zach Oat even found these, but bravo to him for enduring the porn spoofs of popular TV shows that, according to his write-up, are not only tasteless, but aren’t even all that funny. My favorites:

Jon…

‘Sesame Street’ Spoofs ‘Mad Men’

Sunday, October 4th, 2009

I know that Sesame Street is up on the times — I’ll always think of the Billy Joel-Marlee Matlin combo — but spoofing the grim, gloriously sixties AMC show? Huh.

The credits were excellent, but it’s too bad that we…

Halloween Countdown: The Spookiest TV Episodes

Thursday, October 1st, 2009

Rabbit rabbit — happy October. We’re feeling it here, as the weather has experienced an unexpected dip from warm and drowsy to biting cold. But we’ll go with it, because the sudden chill perfectly presages Halloween. And to kick off…

What If ‘Indiana Jones’ Had Been A ’50s Pulp Movie?

Wednesday, September 16th, 2009

Wonder no longer:

What I like best about this is that they didn’t go the wimp route and turn all of the Indy clips to grayscale; they found clips from these awfully bad movies. Bravo!
[Via PopWatch]
[Image source: Shane’s…

‘Sex and the Matrix’ — Sharp, Smart Fun

Monday, September 14th, 2009

I can’t believe that I never saw this when it first aired: at the 2000 MTV Movie Awards, Jimmy Fallon teamed up with the cast from Sex and the City — that’s right, the four real ladies – to spoof…