Whenever a celebrity cook appears on a talk show like The Late Show or The Tonight Show , it's hardly ever a real cooking demonstration. Letterman will start drinking cooking sherry right out of the bottle or Conan will just go nuts and spread butter all over something he shouldn't. Last night was particularly crazy, as Conan, Garry Shandling, and Andy Richter helped Paula Deen make... something for...
Paula Deen was on The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien last night, trying to show Conan, Andy, and guest Garry Shandling how to make pumpkin rolls from her new book, Paula Deen's Cookbook for the Lunch-Box Set. It was a mess of a performance, as the three boys tried to follow her frazzled directions (which included such orders as "grab your nuts!"). By the end of it, Conan was downing Kahlua...
Every week for the past 8 years or so, I've put up a list of the guests featured on the late night talk shows to help night-owls and insomniacs plan their week. You can check out the main page for my Late Night TV shows by clicking the link at the top of the page or click here . If there's a guest you liked that's been on a show that but you don't remember their name, go to my Late Night Talk Show...
This week’s column takes a look at the first wave of DVD box sets hoping to compete for your Yuletide dollar, along with ickiness both foreign and domestic, two of the funniest shows ever broadcast on television and some junk about giant robots beating the metallic crap out of each other.Even though it is still mid-October as I write these words, the signs of the imminent Christmas season are...
[ed. note: so, yeah, my new job has been keeping me incredibly busy so the DVD Tuesday column has slipped to Wednesday for a second consecutive week. I apologize to my one, true fan who logs in every Tuesday at two o'clock to read my blurbs. I know I have at least one fan because -- yes -- he writes to me and tells me how funny he thinks I am. I love him. He is incredibly smart.] Great to see Stephen...
As a stand-up comic in the late ’70s and early ’80s, Garry Shandling specialized in jokes about his vanity and his luckless love life, cut with a bit—just a bit —of a self-conscious wink. His jokes were reasonably funny, but as with fellow stand-up David Letterman, Shandling’s material was to some extent about what’s funny, and why we laugh at jokes that may be stale...
Click here to download TV listings for the week of Oct. 18 - 14 in PDF format This week's TV Movies The Early Show (N) 7 a.m. KCBS Today Richard Gere. (N) 7 a.m. KNBC KTLA Morning News (N) 7...
First of all let me just say that the weekly Power Rankings! are going to be a bit late - either tonight or tomorrow. I'm behind on some key episodes and things are certainly in flux (except for "Mad Men" which continues to astonish). Feel free here to rally for your favorite show or convince...
Here are some of the TV on DVD options available today. Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman ( Complete Series ) Fawlty Towers (Remastered) ( Complete Collection ) Hawaii Five-0 ( Season 7 ) Homicide: Life on the Street ( Complete Series ) It’s Garry Shandling’s Show ( Complete Series ) The L Word ( Final Season ) Numb3rs ( Season 5 ) Route 66 ( Season 3, Vol. 2 ) Saber Rider and the Star Sheriffs...
This is the week for people who love TV and have hundreds and hundreds of dollars free to spend. We’re now fully in the pre-holiday-sales “complete series” season. This week’s batch of pricey DVD sets is top-lined by the cult favorite It’s Garry Shandling’s Show , a full review of which will be running here in the AVC tomorrow. But the complete series armada does...
Elaine Raines writes on her blog, Tales from the Morgue, that comedian Gary Shandling was once a stamp collector. According to Elaine, "But, just as some kids were collecting baseball cards, Shandling was collecting the routines of his favorite comedians, including George Carlin, Don Rickles, Joey Bishop and Shecky Green." Elaine says while Shandling was growing up in Arizona he was also...
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