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Ricky Gervais only hosted the Golden Globe Awards five times between 2010 and 2020, yet people still talk about his jokes more than anything else...
A lot of people were understandably upset with Ricky Gervais when he went after some of the biggest names in entertainment at the 2010 Golden Globe...
Long before South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone adapted the show into video games like The Stick of Truth and The Fractured But Whole,...
The Norman Lear hit sitcom All in the Family went through several changes before premiering on CBS in 1971. Lear shot three pilots with three...
Chris Farley and David Spade got into such a huge fight on the set of Tommy Boy that it’s surprising they were able to actually finish the movie...
One of the big recurring gags on Sanford and Son throughout its five-year run in the 1970s was Redd Foxx’s character, Fred G. Sanford, pretending he...
Comedian Jackie Coogan had a long, storied career spanning the 1910s to the 1980s. He rose to prominence as a child actor alongside Charlie Chaplin in...
Modern Problems stars Chevy Chase as an air traffic controller on the verge of a mental breakdown. Exposure to nuclear waste grants him the power of...
Ricky Gervais has never been shy about his appreciation for Woody Allen and the influence the director had on his work. On several occasions, Gervais...
Celebrities have been honored in many different ways over the years. Some of them have had statues built in their likeness, and some have even gotten...
One of the many memorable segments on The Late Show with David Letterman back in the day was “Fun with Rupert,” which began in 1994. The gist...
Comedy, more than any other genre, has a strange way of anticipating future events. The Simpsons alone has been said to have predicted a long list of...
New Year’s Rockin’ Eve creator Dick Clark took his Flintstones fandom to a level unlike anybody else. Sitting at 10124 Pacific View Drive in...
TV shows doing special New Year’s-themed episodes isn’t as common as them doing, say, Christmas or Halloween-related stories. They generally...
Between 1997 and 1999, Comedy Central aired three brief South Park shorts in which the characters counted down to the New Year. They ran for roughly...
Are you tired of spending New Year’s Eve watching Ryan Seacrest and whatever the hell it is he’s got going on in Times Square? Not really in the...
Since 1972, every New Year’s Eve, an 18-minute black-and-white comedy sketch called Dinner for One has been shown on German television. Except for a...
On December 31, 1972, Dick Clark’s first annual New Year’s Rockin’ Eve special aired on NBC. The show featured musical performances from the...
It’s a question as old as, well…the first Home Alone movie: Just what is it that Kevin McCallister’s father, Peter, does for a living, exactly?...
Rob Reiner made guest appearances on a variety of iconic shows before landing his breakout role as Michael “Meathead” Stivic on All in the Family...
Jackie Vernon’s son, David, had some interesting things to share about the Frosty the Snowman star. During an appearance on Nostalgia Tonight With...
National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation, released in 1989, brought down the curtain on the career of actress Mae Questel, after six decades in show...
People just can’t seem to resist making sequels to successful films. It’s pretty much standard practice at this point, and Christmas movies are no...
Some of the most memorable Christmas comedies also featured memorable props. Quirky things like the Red Ryder BB gun from A Christmas Story or the...
The old black-and-white gangster flicks seen in the first two Home Alone movies have become almost as iconic as the films they’re featured in. In...
As we’ve mentioned before, Bad Santa was shaping up to be a somewhat different movie in its early stages. It was originally written with James...
The holiday season is here again, and you know what that means: It’s only a matter of time before A Christmas Story is being shown on television to...
Released in 1996, Jingle All the Way tells the story of Howard Langston, who sets out to find his son the most in-demand toy of the year in time for...
Each year around Christmastime, millions of Italians gather around their TVs for the annual broadcast of Una Poltrona Per Due (translation: “An...
On February 4, 2004, Chappelle’s Show introduced a segment called “Charlie Murphy’s True Hollywood Stories.” The subject of that night’s...
When you make a movie containing as many violent stunts as Home Alone, it stands to reason that the people involved will end up with some bumps and...
The journey to bringing Tim Burton’s 1989 Batman movie to the screen began a decade before its eventual release. Producer Michael Uslan first...
The 2010 video game Fallout: New Vegas takes place in a post-apocalyptic version of Las Vegas, many years after a nuclear war. The player assumes the...
Sam Kinison’s history with substance abuse was no secret. Alcohol and cocaine caused several problems for the comedian throughout his life, and...
In 1984, Saturday Night Live creator Lorne Michaels produced his first film, a sci-fi comedy titled Nothing Lasts Forever. Shot in both...
One of the most memorable moments in the entire Star Wars franchise happened at the end of 1980’s The Empire Strikes Back. During the famous...
Saturday Night Live has established itself over the years as the go-to TV show for entertainers to appear on during promotional tours. It’s also...
Comedy legend Dick Van Dyke turns 100 years old today. With a career spanning eight decades, Van Dyke has given us an incredible body of work to...
On November 21, 2001, Rodney Dangerfield appeared on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno to celebrate his 80th birthday. After performing stand-up,...
Jimi Hendrix’s old apartment at 23 Brook Street in London—along with the next-door home once occupied by 18th-century composer George Frideric...
In 1992, author and musician Kathi Kamen Goldmark formed a rock band that would become known as The Rock Bottom Remainders. Working as a media escort...
When Carl Reiner set out to create the sitcom that eventually became The Dick Van Dyke Show, he knew that he had to try something that hadn’t been...
If Lorne Michaels had gotten his way in 2000, Jackass, as we know it, might never have come to be. It was around that time that Johnny Knoxville’s...
Tim Allen’s path to success was not without its hiccups. He started having problems after his father died in a car accident in 1964. Allen was just...
Eagle-eyed fans of Curb Your Enthusiasm have no doubt noticed that Larry David’s character doesn’t live in the same house during the show’s 12...
On February 15, 1991, Warner Bros. released the horror-comedy Nothing but Trouble, directed by Dan Aykroyd. The film stars Chevy Chase as a...
Mike Myers was a Saturday Night Live cast member for exactly six years, from January 21, 1989, to January 21, 1995. During that time, he...
As with most unimportant issues, there’s a generational divide over older movies and TV shows, particularly those from the black-and-white era....
In 1987, sitcom legends Dick Van Dyke and Redd Foxx joined forces for a TV movie titled Ghost of a Chance, a year after Foxx had worked with Van...
The second season of The Simpsons introduced us to McBain, a fictional movie cop played by the equally fictional action star Rainier Wolfcastle. We...