TMZ (Free subscription) | 01/02/2009
Filed under: Wacky & Weird It's not just Vicki Lawrence who came out swingin' on New Years Day, the "Mama's Family" star says her most famous character would be just as bitter over what seems to be a sore subject...... Permalink
Media Assassin (Free subscription) | 12/23/2008
I may like nothing less than any film or video where Black people teach white people how to dance, or to otherwise be cool. That said, I can kind of bear the otherwise talented Vicki Lawrence (Mama’s Family) in this clip from The Carol Burnett Show, above, because there’s just not a lot of high-quality footage [...]
Utter Wonder (Free subscription) | 12/09/2008
Yes, this is a rerun. There's no use in pretending that it's not. I should get some points for being so upfront about it actually. I really am special. Anyway, here's a post I wrote exactly four years ago today....
TV Barn (Free subscription) | 12/01/2008
Rosie O'Donnell's "Rosie Live" is ... well, not among the living. What the star herself didn't do to kill it off, the network on Thursday mercifully finished. The Rosie comeback to end all Rosie comebacks scored a fat 5 million...
fourfour (Free subscription) | 10/20/2008
Recap episode means I abandon the usual process for something a bit more animated: And after the jump, there's a bonus: tons of reader submissions! That's not blood coming from my jellybag, it's ketchup!
A.V. Club (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
The man behind one of the quieter characters on The Office speaks up.
Phawker (Free subscription) | 08/19/2008
Now playing on Phawker Radio! BY ED KING, ROCK EXPERT Along with Dionne Warwick, the late-60s hits by Glen Campbell represent, in my memory, the best of the failed aspirations of middle-class America. I still see those albums sitting in front of the huge, wooden stereo consoles in our neighborhood, resting on plush, burnt-orange carpeting. Some [...]
ProudToBeCanadian Blog (Free subscription) | 07/03/2008
Vicki Lawrence’s 1972 hit “The night the lights went out in Georgia” may become the official state song thanks to what passes for justice in the court of Fulton County, Ga., Judge Thelma Wyatt Cummings Moore. Acting on a petition from the Sierra Club and the Friends of the Chattahoochee, Moore invalidated a permit issued by the Georgia Environmental Protection Division allowing Longleaf Energy Associates...
Comedy Central Insider (Free subscription) | 06/17/2008
Did you see the TV Land Awards? If not, you missed some pretty funny stuff. Luckily DARPA invented the Internet solely so people like you could see TV shows they missed, and you can now watch a bunch of highlights...
The Wicked Stage (Free subscription) | 06/16/2008
I missed this yesterday, but caught it today in George Hunka's approving citation : Brantley has joined Als in comparing the brilliant August: Osage County to a certain execrable Vicki Lawrence sitcom. Audiences whose frame of reference is fixed in television are more likely to see parallels with the sitcom “Mama’s Family,” in which a chronically discontented mother keeps trying to top herself in insulting...
Entertainment Tonight (Free subscription) | 06/04/2008
It's election year and VICKI LAWRENCE thinks we could all use a good laugh, so she has taken her favorite character from "The CAROL BURNETT Show" and "Mama's Family" and nominated her for the highest office in the land in the just-released book, Mama for President: Good Lord, Why Not? ET chats with the comedienne, who says, "I thought it would be fun to make people laugh. I was concerned that the...
LUSTY LADY (Free subscription) | 06/01/2008
I've meant to post about BEA but it's been madness involving lost everything, book overload, meetings, celebrity sightings (Arianna Huffington, Alec Baldwin, Dionne Warwick, Kevin Nealon, but sadly no Vicki Lawrence), sunshine, tacos, Rollerderby, bloggers, cupcakes, and cuddling. Aside from those moments of panic about losing all my belongings, I've been having fun. The no cell phone thing really...
Cinema Blend (Free subscription) | 05/31/2008
If comedy has royalty, Korman would be the jester. Even among the elite names of his trade, Korman stood out.
TV.com (Free subscription) | 05/30/2008
Comedic actor dies at the age of 81; Korman made audiences laugh in Carol Burnett Show , Blazing Saddles .
Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch (Free subscription) | 05/30/2008
Harvey Korman had one of the best sneers in the business. The comic actor, who died yesterday at 81, fashioned an entire performance out of that sneer, his delightfully hissable villain Hedy Hedley Lamarr in Blazing Saddles. That was probably...
