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Elwood Edwards died last week. Can’t place the name? Chances are you’ve heard him speak. Edwards, an employee at TV station WKYC in Ohio, was the...
by Peter Funt on October 23, 2024 In a memorable "Saturday Night Live" football sketch from 2016, Vanessa Bayer toils in the kitchen preparing...
by Peter Funt on August 27, 2024 Fantasy football is played by more than 50 million Americans -- and we're all experts. Of course, my expertise...
Fantasy football is played by more than 50 million Americans – and we’re all experts. Of course, my expertise usually costs me money while the...
If Kamala Harris manages to become the 47th U.S. president it will be despite Joe Biden, not because of him. Biden is a decent man and an honorable...
Joe Biden’s closest confidants are wrestling with the same questions that 81.2 million of us who voted for him in 2020 have been mulling since the...
The other night the National Football League commandeered two hours of prime time on ESPN for what used to be accomplished in a minute or two with a...
After years of trying to develop what he called a “premium” hamburger, McDonald’s CFO Ian Borden surprised no one the other day by announcing...
By Peter Funt After years of trying to develop what he called a "premium" hamburger, McDonald's CFO Ian Borden surprised no one the other day by...
In television, now more than ever, crime pays. A search for “true crime” on Netflix produced 300 titles. Nearly half of Apple’s top 20 podcasts...
By Peter Funt The earworm "1-8-7-7 Kars 4 Kids" always struck me as a stellar example of how insufferable advertising can be when its creators really...
The earworm “1-8-7-7 Kars 4 Kids” always struck me as a stellar example of how insufferable advertising can be when its creators really put their...
A friend who reviews music and interviews top performers for a newspaper in New England, was up early Feb. 1 to sample the release from pop legend...
By Peter Funt So, you thought by cutting the cable-TV cord you'd avoid exorbitant monthly fees and those dreaded commercial interruptions. Now, you've...
At a time when the presence of celebrities seems to overwhelm professional sports (Taylor Swift, I’m looking at you in your sparkly Travis Kelce...
Tom Smothers wasn’t the first performer to weaponize comedy for political purposes, but he was perfectly suited for it. During the height of his...
Apple TV’s “The Morning Show,” which recently ended its third season, offers a melodramatic mishmash of media and current events, yet manages to...