Johnny Carson

The Sorry Ms. Jackson

Victoria Jackson's Excellent Tea Party Adventure

Here's Tasting You, Burbank

The 5 Most Hilarious Republican Attempts To Co-opt Rock Songs

​The problem with being a Conservative, besides the fact that you spend all your time trying to ruin things for everyone else, is that, let's face it, you're really square. You probably have a million sexual hang-ups, you're always 50 years too late to claim credit for any social movements tha ... More >>

Cal Worthington: Alive and Pitching

​The problem with being a Conservative, besides the fact that you spend all your time trying to ruin things for everyone else, is that, let's face it, you're really square. You probably have a million sexual hang-ups, you're always 50 years too late to claim credit for any social movements tha ... More >>

Certifiably Jonathan

​The problem with being a Conservative, besides the fact that you spend all your time trying to ruin things for everyone else, is that, let's face it, you're really square. You probably have a million sexual hang-ups, you're always 50 years too late to claim credit for any social movements tha ... More >>

IF THESE WALLS COULD LAUGH

​The problem with being a Conservative, besides the fact that you spend all your time trying to ruin things for everyone else, is that, let's face it, you're really square. You probably have a million sexual hang-ups, you're always 50 years too late to claim credit for any social movements tha ... More >>

This Ain't No Fruitcake: Five (Plus One) Great Holiday Breads

L. BallaStollen from Rockenwagner Bakery​ Johnny Carson used to joke there was only one of these in the world, and it was passed from family to family. Others see how far they can fling it every Christmas day. Fruitcake has long been the red-headed stepchild of holiday confections. But it does ... More >>

Nightranger: Stars, Cars & Guitars

L. BallaStollen from Rockenwagner Bakery​ Johnny Carson used to joke there was only one of these in the world, and it was passed from family to family. Others see how far they can fling it every Christmas day. Fruitcake has long been the red-headed stepchild of holiday confections. But it does ... More >>

Stars, Cars and Guitars: Gibson GuitarTown Debuts on the Sunset Strip

Lina Lecaro Cherie Currie and son Jake Hays with The Runaways guitar by artist Sonia Lopez-Chavez. ​A drive down the Sunset Strip always promises a few things: flashy billboards, rockin' (usually studded) get-ups, beckoning marquees and maddeningly slow-moving cars. Now there's something fun ... More >>

Asteroid Headed For Earth; Extraterrestrial Warned Us

NBCCarnac the Magnificent, as played by Johnny Carson.​If you're a perennial, SoCal, top-down kind of driver, you might want to plan to go hard-top for this one: NASA confirmed last fall that a good-sized asteroid, called Apophis, is on a collision course with our kind planet, with an impact d ... More >>

Meeting of Minds

NBCCarnac the Magnificent, as played by Johnny Carson.​If you're a perennial, SoCal, top-down kind of driver, you might want to plan to go hard-top for this one: NASA confirmed last fall that a good-sized asteroid, called Apophis, is on a collision course with our kind planet, with an impact d ... More >>

BEST STEVE

NBCCarnac the Magnificent, as played by Johnny Carson.​If you're a perennial, SoCal, top-down kind of driver, you might want to plan to go hard-top for this one: NASA confirmed last fall that a good-sized asteroid, called Apophis, is on a collision course with our kind planet, with an impact d ... More >>

SCOTT AUKERMAN: MAKE US LAUGH, FUNNY BOY!

NBCCarnac the Magnificent, as played by Johnny Carson.​If you're a perennial, SoCal, top-down kind of driver, you might want to plan to go hard-top for this one: NASA confirmed last fall that a good-sized asteroid, called Apophis, is on a collision course with our kind planet, with an impact d ... More >>

Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

He-e-e-r-re's Eddie! Ed McMahon, the sidekick's sidekick, who for 30 years suffered and shone as Johnny Carson's foil, straight man and MC, has died of undisclosed causes at the age of 86. L.A. TimesSheriff Stops DNA Search Blaming budget woes, L.A. County Sheriff Lee Baca has halted his department' ... More >>

Ed McMahon: Where the Sidekick Ends

Ed McMahon, who died today at the age of 86, had the least enviable job in comedy, that of a television host's sidekick. Playing Dr. Watson to Johnny Carson's Sherlock Holmes, McMahon was both a reliable patsy and convincing straight man -- the clown who brought a bumbling bonhomie to the Tonight Sh ... More >>

LA Flashback: June, 1991, When Mozmania Swept the Southland

Request Video Morrissey Soundcheck Pacific Amphitheatre, June 1, 1991 (music starts near the 4:30 mark) Request Video Morrissey Soundcheck Pacific Amphitheatre, June 1, 1991 It was June of 1991 when Mozmania swept through the Los Angeles area. Kill Uncle had recently been released and while tha ... More >>

Trumpets, Pianos, and Monty Python's Soprano Player

Request Video Morrissey Soundcheck Pacific Amphitheatre, June 1, 1991 (music starts near the 4:30 mark) Request Video Morrissey Soundcheck Pacific Amphitheatre, June 1, 1991 It was June of 1991 when Mozmania swept through the Los Angeles area. Kill Uncle had recently been released and while tha ... More >>

Mold Queen Loses in Court: July 24, 2008

Request Video Morrissey Soundcheck Pacific Amphitheatre, June 1, 1991 (music starts near the 4:30 mark) Request Video Morrissey Soundcheck Pacific Amphitheatre, June 1, 1991 It was June of 1991 when Mozmania swept through the Los Angeles area. Kill Uncle had recently been released and while tha ... More >>

Deadline Hollywood: Shameful Oscar Overspending

Mo' money, more Hugh, less Jerry

How Deep Is Your Throat?

What to do in L.A., October 17-23

Sacreligulous: Bill Maher's Cross to Bear

Bile and blasphemy from HBO's Real Time host

Donald Trump, Ed McMahon and Toxic Mold

It's been unsettling to watch the massive layoffs at the LA Times and Daily News, but when you read a sanitized story like today's Los Angeles Times California section report on The Donald's effort to save Johnny Carson sidekick Ed McMahon from foreclosure, it's a reminder that newspapers have a fat ... More >>

The Toxic Mold Rush: California Mom Helps Fuel an Obsession

Ed McMahon is among those caught in paranoia over fungus' supposed perils

Theater Reviews: Sexy Laundry, Stupid Kids

Also, Frozen, Robots vs. Fake Robots

Joan Rivers: A Work in Progress by a Life in Progress

Also, Frozen, Robots vs. Fake Robots

Striking TV: DVD Sets for a Season Without Writers

Berlin Alexanderplatz, Twin Peaks, Johnny Carson, Larry Sanders and more

Talk to Me: Shock Jockery

Don Cheadle almost saves Talk to Me

Outlaw Grub and Vision Boards

Don Cheadle almost saves Talk to Me

J'accuse!

Celebs On Trial: a Balance Sheet

Beauty and the Bounty

Kathy Potter

How Gay Will Oscar Go?

Handicapping who’ll win, who’ll lose, and who’ll just jerk off

J’accuse! Celebs on Trial: A Balance Sheet

Handicapping who’ll win, who’ll lose, and who’ll just jerk off

Brent Shapiro’s Final Hours

Handicapping who’ll win, who’ll lose, and who’ll just jerk off

Brent Shapiro, 1980–2005

OD may have killed son of O.J.’s lawyer

Inconspicuous Consumption

OD may have killed son of O.J.’s lawyer

Balls Out

Dane Cook does whatever it takes to make you laugh

The Mortal Storm

The Deaths of the 20th Century

The Other Texan

Dan Rather’s Evening News exit

Oh Sandy

Ms. Bernhard fluffs, folds, flaps

Hollywood Reporters and Gatsby Envy

Why do journalists lust after the trappings of Tinseltown?

Brent Shapiro’s Final Hours

Coroner’s report details bad advice given to son of O.J.’s lawyer

Captain, My Captain

William Shatner on life, love, horses and making a record with Ben Folds

The Invasion of the Elegant Trogons

Is Sierra Club’s anti-immigration insurgency for the birds?

Free in L.A.

John R. Cash, 1932–2003

News From Up North

What the City of Smog can learn from the City of Light

A Real-Life Baretta

Culver City police chief gets cameo in murder probe

Declaration of Independence

Patti Smith speaks

Heel!

Yanking Matthew Margolis' chain