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Sitcoms

  • Blogs

    October 17, 2011

    Fred Durst to add self-parody to resume with family-friendly sitcom

    ​He's helped popularize plodding, misogynistic rap-rock and backwards red baseball caps. He's incited the shiftless youth in a Woodstock audience to riot. He's been an unashamedly creepy stalker of young, blond Hollywood pop starlets. He's been involved in film projects involving skateboarding cul ... More >>

  • Calendar

    June 22, 2011

    Yo La Tengo

    ​He's helped popularize plodding, misogynistic rap-rock and backwards red baseball caps. He's incited the shiftless youth in a Woodstock audience to riot. He's been an unashamedly creepy stalker of young, blond Hollywood pop starlets. He's been involved in film projects involving skateboarding cul ... More >>

  • Calendar

    May 11, 2011

    Brian Scolaro

    ​He's helped popularize plodding, misogynistic rap-rock and backwards red baseball caps. He's incited the shiftless youth in a Woodstock audience to riot. He's been an unashamedly creepy stalker of young, blond Hollywood pop starlets. He's been involved in film projects involving skateboarding cul ... More >>

  • Movies

    February 16, 2011

    Ed Helms in Cedar Rapids

    A paradigm of cheerful Midwest repression

  • Blogs

    February 4, 2011

    10 best Beavis and Butthead moments

    ​Yesterday the news leaped forth from the Internet that everyone's favorite (hopefully not only in retrospect) latchkey simpletons Beavis and Butthead are returning to MTV sometime later this year, part of a top-to-bottom restructuring of MTV's corporate posture. While the news wasn't entirel ... More >>

  • Calendar

    January 19, 2011

    Pete Correale

    ​Yesterday the news leaped forth from the Internet that everyone's favorite (hopefully not only in retrospect) latchkey simpletons Beavis and Butthead are returning to MTV sometime later this year, part of a top-to-bottom restructuring of MTV's corporate posture. While the news wasn't entirel ... More >>

  • Calendar

    January 5, 2011

    TV Party with Girl Germs:The Golden Girls

    ​Yesterday the news leaped forth from the Internet that everyone's favorite (hopefully not only in retrospect) latchkey simpletons Beavis and Butthead are returning to MTV sometime later this year, part of a top-to-bottom restructuring of MTV's corporate posture. While the news wasn't entirel ... More >>

  • Calendar

    December 29, 2010

    Royal Mutt: the Shady Acres Premiere

    ​Yesterday the news leaped forth from the Internet that everyone's favorite (hopefully not only in retrospect) latchkey simpletons Beavis and Butthead are returning to MTV sometime later this year, part of a top-to-bottom restructuring of MTV's corporate posture. While the news wasn't entirel ... More >>

  • Calendar

    September 22, 2010

    Louis CK

    ​Yesterday the news leaped forth from the Internet that everyone's favorite (hopefully not only in retrospect) latchkey simpletons Beavis and Butthead are returning to MTV sometime later this year, part of a top-to-bottom restructuring of MTV's corporate posture. While the news wasn't entirel ... More >>

  • Movies

    April 7, 2010

    Tina Fey and Steve Carell lack chemistry in Date Night

    Actors go lowbrow for Shawn Levy film

  • Calendar

    November 4, 2009
  • Calendar

    November 4, 2009

    Lisa Landry

    Actors go lowbrow for Shawn Levy film

  • Calendar

    June 24, 2009

    Bill Cosby

    Actors go lowbrow for Shawn Levy film

  • Blogs

    June 9, 2009

    Starbucks pays $10 million for 'Morning Joe' appearance

    Starbucks pays big buckolas for hourly mention on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" program.

  • Blogs

    April 6, 2009

    MinniHaHa: The Monday Night Comedy Series

    The best of standup and improv comedy every week at The Beat Coffeehouse in Uptown. Your move, creep.

  • Calendar

    April 1, 2009

    Britney Spears

    The best of standup and improv comedy every week at The Beat Coffeehouse in Uptown. Your move, creep.

  • Blogs

    March 6, 2009

    'The Office' actor B.J. Novak performs U of M Saturday

    B.J. Novak, actor, writer, and producer of the NBC comedy "The Office" will perform live on the University of Minnesota campus Saturday. Open to the public for cheap!

  • Blogs

    February 25, 2009

    Andy Richter secures employment

    It beats heavy lifting-- Richter has been hired as the Tonight Show announcer, which means that he and Conan O'Brien will once again share air.

  • Blogs

    October 27, 2008

    Method Man and Redman tonight at First Avenue

    It beats heavy lifting-- Richter has been hired as the Tonight Show announcer, which means that he and Conan O'Brien will once again share air.

  • Calendar

    September 10, 2008

    Art and Popular Culture

    It beats heavy lifting-- Richter has been hired as the Tonight Show announcer, which means that he and Conan O'Brien will once again share air.

  • Calendar

    July 16, 2008

    Maria Bamford

    It beats heavy lifting-- Richter has been hired as the Tonight Show announcer, which means that he and Conan O'Brien will once again share air.

  • Calendar

    January 16, 2008

    Bill Engvall

    It beats heavy lifting-- Richter has been hired as the Tonight Show announcer, which means that he and Conan O'Brien will once again share air.

  • Calendar

    October 10, 2007

    Jim Gaffigan

    It beats heavy lifting-- Richter has been hired as the Tonight Show announcer, which means that he and Conan O'Brien will once again share air.

  • Unknown

    July 25, 2007

    Here are the week's best releases from the pop culture universe

    It beats heavy lifting-- Richter has been hired as the Tonight Show announcer, which means that he and Conan O'Brien will once again share air.

  • Arts

    March 21, 2007

    Spotlight: American Noise: The Savage Rebirth of the American Dream

    It beats heavy lifting-- Richter has been hired as the Tonight Show announcer, which means that he and Conan O'Brien will once again share air.

  • Movies

    August 30, 2006

    Yuppies Love Paying for Sitcoms

    Moore and 'The Man' won't stay home with 'Friends'

  • Blogs

    November 10, 2005
  • Sports

    October 12, 2005

    Dry Schlumping

    The laughter goes back in the can on NBC's 'Earl' and 'The Office'

  • Blogs

    September 28, 2005

    Must-flee TV?

    The laughter goes back in the can on NBC's 'Earl' and 'The Office'

  • Blogs

    September 26, 2005

    Would you believe dead as a doornail?

    The laughter goes back in the can on NBC's 'Earl' and 'The Office'

  • Movies

    August 10, 2005

    Nothing Succeeds Like Excess

    Arnaud Desplechin has a full house with 'Kings and Queen'

  • Blogs

    July 27, 2005

    You're gonna eat those words

    Arnaud Desplechin has a full house with 'Kings and Queen'

  • Blogs

    March 25, 2005

    Why can't I be you?

    Arnaud Desplechin has a full house with 'Kings and Queen'

  • News

    August 11, 2004

    Once More with Feeling

    You swore you'd never watch a hemophiliac raise the spirit of a dead cat again. And then the Fringe Festival returned.

  • Sports

    November 27, 2002

    The Friends and Family Plan

    While Rachel and Ross grow up, 'Hidden Hills' storms neverland

  • Arts

    May 15, 2002

    Y Tu Película También

    'Hollywood Shuffle' in shades of brown; Sanity's loss is theater's gain

  • Sports

    March 27, 2002

    Must-See TV-PG

    Leap of Faith and Watching Ellie offer sex in the city sans smut

  • Sports

    December 19, 2001

    Clown College

    'Undeclared' Scripts Comic Essays on Graduating Into Adulthood

  • Arts

    October 31, 2001

    Projectile Criticism

    Assuring Theatrical Quality Through a Well-Armed Director

  • Sports

    April 18, 2001

    Nobody Loves Me

    Can The Job's hard-to-like cop win the kindness of strangers?

  • Arts

    August 2, 2000

    Indie 500

    With roughly 100 productions and 500 performances, the Minnesota Fringe Festival turns low-budget theater into a two-week marathon

  • Sports

    May 17, 2000

    Stuck in the Middle

    Fox's most promising sitcom of the season offers a middle-class family comedy for the middle decades of the last century

  • Sports

    April 26, 2000

    A Fine Line

    Whose Line Is It Anyway? turns cultural cliché into genuine comedy

  • Arts

    February 23, 2000

    No Fear

    Arena Theatre storms through Albee; Cockpit and Rhombus theaters stumble through Shepard

  • Music

    June 23, 1999

    The Day the Muzak Died

    Arena Theatre storms through Albee; Cockpit and Rhombus theaters stumble through Shepard

  • Sports

    April 7, 1999

    House of Payne

    Fawlty Towers comes to the states, but loses its class in translation

  • Movies

    October 21, 1998

    The True Man Show

    Fawlty Towers comes to the states, but loses its class in translation

  • Feature

    June 30, 1998

    Queering the Culture

    Oscar Wilde on Broadway, Lesbian Opera at Lincoln Center, Sparky the Gay Dog on TV. Be Careful What You Wish For.

  • Arts

    March 4, 1998

    Russian Roulette

    A makeshift "project" by Frank Theatre tries to catch the wry in Chekhov's short stories; a Mixed Blood comedy shows the stereotype in the TV sitcom--and the damage done.

  • Arts

    November 27, 1996

    Life Is A Joke, Old Chum.

    Watching nothing happen with the beautiful losers of Friends.

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