Johnny Carson

L.A. Film Festival 2013: Documentaries About the City, From Rappers to the LACMA Rock

L.A. County Hospital, casting directors and Richard Nixon also feature in a fest brimming with nonfiction SoCal films

Weekend Preview: Improving Matt Kemp, Dodgers Begin Roadie Tonight in Atlanta

Rebounding from an eight-game losing streak with victories in four of their last five, the Dodgers have hit the road. Beginning tonight at 4:30 p.m. it's three at Atlanta followed by three in the former home of the Braves, in Milwaukee to face the Brewers. While we wouldn't use the word "surging" t ... More >>

Mel Brooks: Make a Noise Makes 'em Laugh at Paley Center Premiere

Mel Brooks doesn't think he's an American master. That's someone like Mark Twain or Ernest Hemingway, says the creator of the funniest farting scene in the history of film. But Susan Lacy, executive producer of PBS' American Masters series, thought differently, and convinced Brooks to dispense wi ... More >>

Black Hogg Returns: Readers Fight Back

Ted Review: Seth MacFarlane of Family Guy Debuts as a Film Director

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

Certifiably Jonathan

IF THESE WALLS COULD LAUGH

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

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

BEST STEVE

SCOTT AUKERMAN: MAKE US LAUGH, FUNNY BOY!

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

Mold Queen Loses in Court: July 24, 2008

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

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

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

Brent Shapiro, 1980–2005

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

Inconspicuous Consumption

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

Free in L.A.

John R. Cash, 1932–2003

A Real-Life Baretta

Culver City police chief gets cameo in murder probe

Declaration of Independence

Patti Smith speaks