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Seinfeld Writer Peter Mehlman, Credited With Catchphrases Like 'Yada Yada Yada,' Tells Us About His New Book

Peter Mehlman certainly has a flair for the English language. As a writer for beloved 1990s sitcom Seinfeld, he mainstreamed terms like shrinkage, sponge-worthy and "yada yada yada," the last of which has such a footing in pop culture vernacular that it's part of the Oxford English Dictionary. Heck. ... More >>

Funny People

Dave Grohl On His Film Tribute to the Studio That Gave the World Nevermind

By Whitney Friedlander The lobby of Dave Grohl's Northridge-based 606 Studios has a Joan Jett book on the coffee table and a row of classic arcade games like Donkey Kong Jr. against one wall. On top of a photo booth sits an iconic "Moonman" MTV Video Music Award, festooned with a roll of toilet pap ... More >>

Carl Reiner on His New Memoir, Holding Steve Martin's Baby and His Love of Zooey Deschanel

See also: *10 Best Stand-Up Comedy Shows in L.A. *12 L.A. Comedy Acts to Watch in 2013 *5 Best Comedy Shows in L.A. This Week He tweets. He Tivos. He's excited about the video components included with the eBook version of his new, self-published memoir, I Remember Me. Carl Reiner may be 90, but the ... More >>

West Hollywood City Council 2013: Will Comedian Matt Ralston Be a Candidate That Jon Stewart Could Be Proud Of?

West Hollywood always gets crazed when election season rolls around, and this one has been no different. In fact, with a term limit ballot measure added to an already combustible City Council race, 2013 could be one for the history books. So it may be good for everyone that comedian Matt Ralston is ... More >>

Martin Crimp's The City and How Obama Got His Groove Back Show the Art of Escaping Reality

The Daily Show on the Park Slope Food Co-op Monday Night's Vote: The Hummus Shall Remain

It is classic Daily Show. An intrepid Christiane Amanpour type diving into a roiling human rights stew. A few foils setting themselves up for easy ridicule with every utterance. A righteous skewering of extremely small-scale activism-gone-absurd in the land of $1,000 strollers. Samantha Bee brin ... More >>

Post-Oscar Bitching, a Chance to Prove How Young and Hip We All Are

Ew, old people. They're so old! Especially that Billy Crystal. What is he, 105? Get off the stage! In your electric walker! If you buy into the prevailing narrative of the post-Oscars Twitterverse, all Academy voters are elderly, with a quirky fondness for nostalgic moving pictures about moving pic ... More >>

Real Housewives of Beverly Hills: Every Day's a Birthday with Ace Young

Anger and resentment on The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills seem to follow the first law of thermodynamics, which states that energy cannot be created or destroyed. Only transferred. Case in point: Taylor arrived at Lisa's tea party fuming at her. Two years of stomaching insults from the sarcastic ... More >>

MAKE US LAUGH, FUNNY BOY! BILL MAHER

R.I.P. Aristide Laurent: Pioneering L.A. Gay Activist Co-Founded The Advocate, Fought LAPD Harassment

billyhic.blogspot.comArtiside Laurent at the Advocate's 40th anniversary bash in -- where else -- West Hollywood.​Artiside "A.J." Laurent, 70-year-old writer and activist, died at his L.A. home on October 26 "after a long illness," the San Diego Gay & Lesbian News reports today. Choosing to s ... More >>

Stephanie Miller's Sexy Liberal Comedy Tour

Countering the right wing's fury with humor

Foo Fighters - The Forum - 10/13/11

Timothy Norris​See also: *Nirvana Little-Known-Facts Revealed: The Band and Jon Stewart Celebrate Nevermind's 20th Anniversary in New York *1991: Nirvana Documentary Captures the Band Moments Before They Broke *Nirvana's Photographer Kirk Weddle Recalls The Day In Pasadena He Shot Nevermind's ... More >>

The Dead Celebrity Cookbook: Frank DeCaro Goes from The Daily Show to Peter Falk's Pork Chops A Recipe

​Sure, there are plenty of cookbooks out there written by chefs or celebrity chefs or home cooks or people who somehow cook things for a living. But who needs kitchen experience to write a cookbook when you've been the movie critic on The Daily Show. Which is what Frank DeCaro, author of The D ... More >>

Nirvana's Photographer Kirk Weddle Recalls The Day In Pasadena He Shot Nevermind's Cover (Plus Rare Photos)

See also: Nirvana Little-Known-Facts Revealed: The Band and Jon Stewart Celebrate Nevermind's 20th Anniversary in New York You might not know his name, but you certainly know his work. On the 20th anniversary of "Smells like Teen Spirit"'s debut on MTV, we spoke with Kirk Weddle, who shot the cove ... More >>

Lara Logan, CBS Reporter and Warzone 'It Girl,' Raped Repeatedly Amid Egypt Celebration

Lara Logan, the "60 Minutes" firecracker who was raped at the moment of Egypt's overthrow​Updated after the jump: Commenters respond to bloggers respond to reporters respond to Tweeters respond to the inexcusable crime against Lara Logan. Breaking news: South African TV journalist Lara Logan ... More >>

James Franco, Anne Hathaway To Host Oscars?

Movie WebAnne Hathaway and James Franco are rumored to be cast together in a future "Alien" prequel​Access Hollywood and USA Today -- followed by everyone else, now, in a game of scrambly Hollywood telephone -- are reporting that dashing youngsters James Franco and Anne Hathaway have been chos ... More >>

Conan O'Brien Whooped Both Jay Leno And Jon Stewart On Cable TV Last Night -- But Can He Make The Magic Last?

TBSSomewhere between poverty and basic cable​Hot damn, Conan. We knew the comeback would be big, but that was some next-level shit. America's favorite middle-aged carrot set the record for the most-watched show in cable-TV history last night: His brand-new 11 p.m. slot on TBS roped in a baffl ... More >>

Diplo Attacked By Lil Jon, Eaten By Crocodiles [Reenactment]

Diplo Attacked By Little Jon, Eaten By Crocodiles [Reenactment]

Rep. Maxine Waters' Ethics Charges Spelled Out

​ The House ethics committee spelled out its case against against Rep. Maxine Waters, the legendary congresswoman who represents south L.A., The Washington Post reports. As expected, the case alleges Waters "improperly exerted" influence over Treasury Department officials when she sought ban ... More >>

Haunted Houses

Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo and Holy Ghost

In the Land Where Theater Is Hip

Two Polish productions coming to UCLA

Theater Reviews: Friends Like These, The Crossing, Peace, Somebody’s Somebody

Also, F*ucking Men, The Kingdom Come, The Golden Gays and more

Louis & Keely at the Geffen

TIME IS RUNNING OUT, SEATING IS LIMITED:  PURCHASE TICKETS TO THE 30TH ANNUAL L.A. WEEKLY THEATER AWARDS ON MARCH 30TH; NOMINEES, RSVP AT (310) 574-7208, IF YOU HAVEN'T ALREADY DONE SO. DRESS FOR A 1958 LOUNGE ACT.At your fingertips: This week's THEATER FEATURE on Jon Stewart, Jim Cramer and Fr ... More >>

Top Five: George W. Bush's YouTube Comedy Threat Levels

With under a week to go until the inauguration of Barack Obama, virtually no-one seems to be mourning the exit of George W. Bush - particularly not the residents of New Orleans, following Monday's bone-headed comments by 43 regarding his administration's response to Hurricane Katrina. (Which we feel ... More >>

Deadline Hollywood: Shameful Oscar Overspending

Mo' money, more Hugh, less Jerry

Sacreligulous: Bill Maher's Cross to Bear

Bile and blasphemy from HBO's Real Time host

Abandon 405!

What to do in L.A., July 11-17

Letter From Moscow: Back in the USSR

You can't rely on the official media to learn much of what's going on in Russia. The government owns all Russian TV stations, on which never is heard a discouraging word. Jon Stewart-style political satire has disappeared from the airwaves. Those pundits who dared to challenge government policy have ... More >>

Strike Struck, Oscar Lives!

What to do in L.A., Feb. 22-28

Striking TV: DVD Sets for a Season Without Writers

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

Theater Reviews: Black Watch, Clay, Lauren Weedman, Durango

Also Goblin Market, Wendy Wasserstein's Third, Twelfth Night and more

The Imus Factor

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Up in Smoke

A musical comedy sums up our grave new world

How Gay Will Oscar Go?

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

The Mortal Storm

The Deaths of the 20th Century

March Madness

The politics of life and death

O Brother, Where Art Thou Screening?

Hollywood Satiricon

Bruce Wagner infects his novels with madness, celebrity, name-dropping, drugs and sex. And that's just the realism.

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Kerry Shoots for the Hip

The candidate know what’s cool, but are the kids buying it?

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