Sitcoms

Bluth's Original Frozen Banana Stand in Culver City Today Free Frozen Bananas

If you've been eagerly awaiting the new season of Arrested Development, no doubt you've already made plans today to go to downtown Culver City sometime between noon and 7 p.m. today to check out the frozen banana stand. For the uninitiated, that would be Bluth's Original Frozen Banana Stand, or on ... More >>

An Arrested Development Variety Show

See also: *5 Awesome Album Covers Inspired By Arrested Development *5 Best Arrested Development Artworks at Gallery 1988 *Why Emily Maya Mills Could Be the Next Carol Burnett On Saturday, Silver Lake's Lyric Hyperion Theater staged an Arrested Development-inspired variety hour called Bluth Fest for ... More >>

Barry and Stuart, Two of the Darkest, Weirdest Magicians in the U.K., Perform Tonight at Largo

The waitress at Yamashiro smiled when she saw the two bright-eyed gentlemen at the table balancing spoons on their noses. She stared in amazement when one began to shake his head back and forth vigorously without the spoon dropping. She screamed when he gleefully pulled the spoon off his nose to rev ... More >>

Here Are Five Banned Beavis and Butthead Episodes

Last month marked 20 years since Beavis and Butthead debuted on MTV. But with that anniversary came the news that the show won't be seen there anymore. Fans have been petitioning for Comedy Central to pick the show up. But if they do so they might want to keep in mind the show's controversial hist ... More >>

The Evolution of Melissa McCarthy

See also: *More L.A. Weekly Film Coverage *12 Comedy Acts to Watch in 2013 To watch Melissa McCarthy as lovable chef Sookie St. James on seven seasons of the Gilmore Girls was to see an actress perfect the art of playing a sidekick. As best friend of the show's protagonist, Lorelai Gilmore (Laur ... More >>

The Big Bang Theory of Product Advertising: In the Cereal Aisle, Dudes Rule

Last week the CBS sitcom The Big Bang Theory offered a spot-on observation about something funky in the world of cereal. As the brainiac crew of scientists settled into breakfast, astrophysicist Raj (played by Kunal Nayyar) began to rattle off the names of cereal mascots like Tony the Tiger, Toucan ... More >>

MAKE US LAUGH, FUNNY GIRL" MARIA BAMFORD

Matt Groening Pulls Plug on 'Life in Hell,' Comic That Helped Inspire The Simpsons

Matt Groening pulled the plug on the iconic comic strip, "Life in Hell," that helped give birth to The Simpsons on Fox. USA Today reports that the last of the syndicated comics was published June 15, but that reruns will be provided through July 13. The characters Binky and Sheba gave life to the " ... More >>

Lauren Faust on Her Favorite Childhood Toy and Pitching Animated Shows for Girls

See also: *"Lauren Faust: Let's Hear It for the Girls" *"Top 5 Lessons for Adults From My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic" For this year's L.A. Weekly People Issue, I interviewed Lauren Faust, the fabulously talented artist and writer who has worked on top-notch shows like The Powerpuff Girls and ... More >>

Lauren Faust: Let's Hear It for the Girls

One of the fascinating Angelenos featured in L.A. Weekly's People 2012 issue. Check out our entire People 2012 issue here. "I've always looked at my work feeling like I was trying to make stuff for girls," says animator Lauren Faust, "and then accidentally getting guys interested as well." Faust, ... More >>

TV's Greatest [Bong] Hits

Natasha Leggero on Ugly Americans Voice Acting and What It's Like Being 'Cast as Domineering Bitches'

In Ugly Americans, which began debuting new episodes last week on Comedy Central, wizards, demons, zombies, humans and more live together, and often clash, in New York City. At the center is Social Services trying to ease the riffs between the varied members of the community. Callie Maggotbone wor ... More >>

The Nerdist Writers Panel

Top 10 Simpsons Food Episodes: Tomacco Ribwich with a Side of Guatemalan Insanity Peppers Skittlebrau

​Food writers have been stoked this week about the The Simpsons' upcoming episode on gastro culture. Our own Margy Rochlin interviewed Simpsons Executive Producer Matt Selman, who admits he's a big fan of Jonathan Gold. "We kind of make fun of foodies," he says, "but in real life we actually l ... More >>

Theresa Rebeck's Poor Behavior

A play of ideas or a sitcom, or both?

Frank Gehry Insists He Didn't Design L.A. Disney Hall By Crumpling a Piece of Paper

It's perfect.​We thought it was just general, irrefutable knowledge by now that bigtime L.A. architect Frank Gehry designed downtown's Disney Hall by crumpling up a piece of paper and setting the welders to work. But, as Gehry revealed in a CNN interview on Sunday, it turns out that was proba ... More >>

Duff Beer from The Simpsons is Real

Duff beer is real! Homer Simpson's favorite libation is actually available for purchase, but only in South America -- and nobody will talk about it. According to the Miami Herald: The makers of Duff in South America say they aren't allowed to talk to the U.S. media. Duff Mexico... would not resp ... More >>

Submarine: Directed by Richard Ayoade, English Sitcom Star

LAPD 'Raids' Charlie Sheen's Mulholland Estates Home

Charlie Sheen got a visit from the LAPD.​Updated after the jump. Quiet day for Charlie Sheen. Eerily quiet. Too much to ask for. And boom goes the dynamite: TMZ reports Thursday night that Los Angeles police were at Sheen's Mulholland Estates home following a possible report that he threaten ... More >>

After All That Work, Charlie Sheen's Efforts Finally Pay Off: He's Fired From 'Two and a Half Men' -- Permanently

Sheen.​Update: Warner Bros. sends a scathing "you're fired" letter to the Sheen camp, after the jump. In the span of a month or so Charlie Sheen has gone from being the world's biggest (and arguably highest-paid, besides Seth MacFarlane) TV star to a crazy guy with webisodes who has weed name ... More >>

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Charlie Sheen Offered $3 Million to Shut His Mouth For One Month (Seriously)

Sheen could make a big paycheck by closing his mouth.​Charlie Sheen recently asked for $3 million an episode to stay on top-rated sitcom Two and a Half Men. This week an L.A. beverage company said it would give the actor that much for an endorsement. Easy money, sounds like. But not so fast. ... More >>

Charlie Sheen Invents 2-Week Rehab Program, Says He's Ready For Work On 'Two and a Half Men'

Slam rehab for Sheen.​Sorry Dr. Drew, but Charlie Sheen has discovered the secret to condensed rehabilitation. You might say it's not possible, but just listen to the actor talk: "They said get your act together and I did. ... Check it, it's like I heal really quickly. But I unravel pretty qu ... More >>

Is This the Best Description of the Black Eyed Peas Ever?

​ [Originally published 2/4/11] Veteran rock writer Marc Spitz just published a fairly nonsensical essay on the Vanity Fair blog about how watching the Black Eyed Peas at the Super Bowl (an event that hasn't happened yet) is gonna change his life and how they are as punk rock as the Village P ... More >>

Chris Elliott on His New Show Eagleheart and the Cult Classic Get a Life

In Eagleheart, which premieres tonight on Adult Swim, Chris Elliott plays Chris Monsanto, a U.S. Marshal whose combination of ineptitude and confidence leads to more disasters than you thought could fit into a twelve-minute episode. If you're familiar with Elliott's work over the years, then this tu ... More >>

You Gotta Believe

Leap of Faith and God's Favorite

MAKE US LAUGH FUNNY BOY: GLENN WOOL

'What's Going On? With Mike Mitchell': Late Night Show Brings Laughs and Charm to Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre

Steve LaThe crowd lines up before the show at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre​It's close to midnight on Saturday as an army of comedy fanatics amass in front of the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in Hollywood. They're all eager to see the evening talk show What's Going On? With Mike Mit ... More >>

Drunk Talk

YOU & YOUR FUCKED-UP FAMILY

SO, IT'S THE LAUGHTER ...

NBC's Kath & Kim: Glamour Girls Gone Kitsch

The other O.C.

Blue-Collar ID: The Factory

Not just another paean to slobdom

Unhitched and quarterlife: TV's Cool Hunters

Networks turn to webisode angst in their eternal quest for the fountain of youth

Mothers, Gangsters and the Usual Boobs at the Emmys

Shout outs and murmurs

From Venus to Venice

Shrugging in Hollywood

Testosterone-challenged Laura Kightlinger’s Minor Accomplishments

Club Emmy

A Rock and a Hard Place

Huey and Riley, uncensored, invade basic cable; Chris Rock finds his sweet side

From the Minds of Babes

Oxygen imports comedian Julia Davis’ disturbingly funny Nighty Night

Poker with The Simpsons

Developed Arrestment

Arrested Development

David and Golgotha

Curb your Enthusiasm and the pain of being rich, white, and living in West L.A.

Good Samaritan: Clean It Forward

Same As It Ever Was

Nothing can stop the new fall season

Fuel Crisis

Three new low-octane, star-driven vehicles

Pigs

Hollywood swine in Action, the real thing in Animal Farm

Justice

Clarence Thomas and Anita Hill, Dorothy Dandridge and lawman Bill Tilghman

To Be Young, Different and/or Black

Female Trouble

Artificial insemination, adultery, the dark forces of otherworldly evil, et cetera