There was something refreshingly pedestrian about last night's episode of The Middle . It wasn't about abundance and excess, because as a middle-class situation comedy, the current economic state doesn't reflect having plenty and living beyond your means. Frankie and Mike are doing their best to get by. But they're not bitching about it. That's part of the reason why I'm enjoying this show so much....
National's Lyttleton, London: Yes, Alan Bennett's eagerly awaited new play is brilliant in that it glitters with sophisticated bravura and, as always, there is some enjoyable situation comedy and hilarious one-liners - such as Adrian Scarborough as a bemused Humphrey Carpenter, telling the dissolute WH Auden, played by the (literally) larger than life, utterly splendid Richard Griffiths, that he can't...
Archie Bunker tells Dingbat how it is, more than thirty years ago. Surprising how this Lear situation comedy in picking on the beleagered Jimmy Carter, has accurately described the Democratic Party of today. A great show. My favorite episode was the one where Archie is telling Meathead where to go for his honeymoon. You should go to Disneyworld. You can take care of teh honeymoon stuff in the hotel...
It shouldn't be difficult for movie audiences today to appreciate William Holden's charm and manly force on the screen. After all, Tom Hanks, whose career has come to resemble Holden's not just in the kind of parts he's taken (and in what order), possesses essentially the same kinds of actor-character traits, which may be proof that the older Hollywood action-drama movie-formula--featuring a capable...
On the occasion of its 30th birthday, Britain's fourth or fifth funniest comic does its business - Warf! Warf! – all over our pages. Click the images on the right of the story for our exclusive Viz strips This month sees the 30th anniversary of "the magazine that's not as funny as it used to be". Viz , Chris Donald's foul-mouthed comic, evolved from a 12-page fanzine hawked around...
I have been helping/designing the scenery for the Village Players panto 'Cinderella' co written by Susannah. Its an interesting world the am-dram. It lives up to its portrayal in situation comedy with a fair bet of bitching and complaining about the effectiveness of certain members etc etc. It was along time ago that I was designing sets played a hand a scene painting but overall its been a lot of...
It was meant to be a flattering season for Neil Simon, the 82-year-old Pulitzer Prize-winning father of situation comedy on the American stage and screen. His semi-autobiographical play Brighton Beach Memoirs opened to fine reviews in New York 10 days ago and next up, in the same theatre, was its companion piece, Broadway Bound.
Ex-city cop and TV reporter Mike Sheehan pleaded guilty Wednesday to driving drunk and slamming into an NYPD horse. [ More ] It sounds like the premise for a situation comedy episode. Hey, do you think as a 25-year veteran of Furious Mike's finest that this will jeopardize his ability to be considered more trustworthy with a gun than you or me? I ask because if he'd broken it's leg, well, they shoot...
Great writing provokes arguments decades after it first appeared, which we can see in David Roderick's poem "Thoreau's Beans" . We witness someone realizing that work is, after all, merely work.The way this poem proceeds is rapid and sharp, like the shovel or the hoe digging at a hard earth, and I do like the manner in which the clauses are stacked on one another, like so many books or dishes...
According to a new study, the British are ditching formal dining for casual meals where the guests muck in and help themselves. Can it be true? Over to our panel of foodies … Zoe Williams What gave dinner parties a bad name is not the formality of the food, but of the guest list – that 80s thing where some mover like Elisabeth Murdoch would invite over some shaker like Alan Yentob, and...
In honor of the 58th anniversary of I Love Lucy , which aired its first episode on October 15, 1951, I thought it would be a fun challenge to select my ten favorite episodes. The series won five Emmy Awards over six seasons and 180 episodes (if you don't count the 13 one-hour specials of The Lucille Ball-Desi Arnaz Show , which aired from 1957 to 1960). The show won for Best Situation Comedy in 1953...
I have only just caught up with this interview between London's somewhat eccentric Mayor, Boris Johnson and BBC Newsnight's 'Rottweiler' frontman Jeremy Paxman . It was recorded at the Conservative Party conference in Manchester on October 5th. I am not sure if it is really about politics or is just an audition for the lead roles in a situation comedy. Judge for yourself - and weep!
Graham “Father Ted” Linehan’s IT Crowd commissioned for a fourth series. Fans of the boys in the basement support desk situation comedy “The IT Crowd” can put down their sudo rm -channel4 command (look it up, kids) as the station has renewed the show for a fourth year. Writer Grahame Linehan’s previous hit show, Father [...]
THE fourth season of well-meaning comedy My Name Is Earl ultimately proved to be the show’s last. Its cancellation came about as much as a result of the economic climate, and the various programmers need to cut down at all costs, rather than any serious dip in ratings. For, if the clamour to save it was anything to go by, Earl’s followers remained loyal and true to the end. Sadly, their...
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