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...classic image of the TV superfan is the minutiae-obsessed, Vulcan-eared Star Trek fan, played by Jon Lovitz opposite William Shatner in a classic Saturday Night Live skit. Today the Lovitzization of entertainment is widespread. When Lost used stock footage from Norway to depict the founder of the Hanso Foundation--the apparent prime mover behind its conspiracy--Norwegian fans went nuts speculating over their homeland's connection to the mystery...
Yesterday, the Boston Globe reported the details of the dismissal, recounting a lewd senior skit night and a controversial speech in front of players and coaches by Toci. The Globe reported that Toci read 20 reasons why Harvard football would not rise to Division I-A, a skit that some players considered less offensive than others...
Yesterday, the Boston Globe reported the details of the dismissal, including a lewd senior skit night and a controversial speech in front of players and coaches by Toci...
...part of the opening scene of Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, a drama that aims to give late-night comedy the West Wing treatment. After Wes Mendell (Judd Hirsch), the producer of a sketch show (also called Studio 60), is forced to kill a controversial skit, he lets loose a live on-camera rant. "We're all being lobotomized," he says, "by this country's most influential medium." He is fired and replaced by two former Studio 60 writers (Matthew Perry and Bradley Whitford) with a history of painkiller and cocaine problems. Can they turn the show around while...
...four all-too-brief seasons (30 episodes in all), Bob Odenkirk, below left, and David Cross were the Wright brothers of experimental TV comedy, and Mr. Show was their Kitty Hawk. The loosely themed episodes run the end of one skit into the beginning of the next, sparking provocative ideas off one another like a chain-smoker's cigarettes. Taking full advantage of its HBO-ensured freedom, the episodes are hilarious and offensive on numerous levels. One includes an ad for Mr. Pickles' Fun-Time Abortion Clinics ("We'll Bring Out the Kid in Ya!"), while in another, Mr. Show...