It started as a novelty act: Carl Reiner would entertain friends at parties by pretending to interview a character he’d throw at Mel Brooks , who would immediately adopt the persona—a guy at a coffee shop, a famous film director, a submarine captain. The highlight of their impromptu act (which existed entirely in this Q&A format) was interviews with Brooks’ character the 2,000-Year-Old...
Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks met when both men were writers for Sid Caesar’s fabled television program, Your Show of Shows. Working from an idea that Reiner had, they developed a comedy routine based on the memories of a 2,000 year-old man. Reiner took the part of the interviewer, and Brooks was the old [...]
It's time for the final edition of TV Rebels. We originally had special permission to publish the first 6 essays on TV shows and actors that will be featured in the upcoming book TV Rebels: 100 People and Programs That Shaped the Medium by authors Lou Orfanella and Oscar De Los Santos...and then last year we got rights to 6 additional essays (for a total of 12!), so today is number twelve, TV
David Lloyd, who not only wrote some of the greatest single episodes in TV sitcom history [Chuckles the Clown youtube], but consistently wrote hilariously, has died at 75. I especially loved a lot of his work on Frasier. With the death of Larry Gelbart (best known for M*A*S*H, but also a writer for the original [...]
I've been laughing at these two for fifty years Shtick With a Thousand Lives By ARI KARPEL Published: November 12, 2009 MEL BROOKS and Carl Reiner have been cracking each other up for nearly 60 years. The two met while working on Sid Caesar’s early television series “Your Show of Shows,” when they cooked up a routine in which Mr. Reiner played an earnest, unnamed TV interviewer, and...
RATING: (WILD APPLAUSE) Sid Caesar once said, "One man's tragedy is another man's comedy," and this French-Belgian farce, with less than five minutes of onscreen dialogue, illustrates that truth. In a nod to pantomime masters Jacques Tati, Charlie Chaplin and...
To live outside the law, says the poet, you must be honest. Two outlaws discovered this week that you'd better live outside caves, too. Come along on a whirlwind tour of Antarctica, Leonardo da Vinci, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Carl Reiner (the Shakespearean), and that great anthem of civilized life, the Addams Family theme song.
This is your Chance to Bring your Grades Up -- "da' C'zars, American Style" by Pat Darnell, the Grade Czar, and, Marinella, Czarina Bubbalina "The online Washington mag Politico notes that Barry H. Obama himself is not fond of the term “ CZAR .” ... It’s only a matter of time before this will prompt commentators to draw parallels between him and Vladimir Lenin."...
Alice in Wonderland (1985) – This made for TV movie had a little nostalgia tied in, but there’s a reason a lot of it was forgotten. “You know what this scene needs? Scott Baio dressed up as a pig!” “Brilliant!”...
I first became a fan of Nanette Fabray as the mother of Mary Richards and Ann Romano. She played Dottie Richards in two 1972 episodes of The Mary Tyler Moore Show and Katherine Romano on One Day at a Time from 1979 to 1984. I didn't discover until much later that she was a Tony Award-winning Broadway actress. You cannot help but like Nanette Fabray, whose sparkling presence has always been irresistible....
LOS ANGELES – Larry Gelbart, the comedy writer famed for his work on "M-A-S-H" and "Tootsie," has died. Gelbart died at his Beverly Hills home Friday morning after a long battle with cancer, said Creative Artists Agency, which represented him, He was 81. Gelbart won a Tony award for "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum" and an Emmy for "M-A-S-H,"
Remember that “I Love Lucy” episode when Lucy eats at Hollywood’s Brown Derby and finds William Holden sitting in the next booth? Hilarity ensues, with Lucy making a fool of herself.
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LOS ANGELES – Larry Gelbart, the comedy writer famed for his work on "M-A-S-H" and "Tootsie," has died. Gelbart died at his Beverly Hills home Friday morning after a long battle with cancer, said Creative Artists Agency, which represented him, He was 81. Gelbart won a Tony award for "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum" and an Emmy for "M-A-S-H," the classic TV comedy based on the Robert...
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