After homemade dramas like "Flashpoint" cracked U.S. network schedules, indie producers are readying Canadian-originated sitcoms for primetime. The Canucks, known more for sketch shows than sitcoms, raised the U.S. network pulse when Fox picked up the U.S. format rights to "Little Mosque on the Prairie," a CBC comedy about fish-out-of-water Muslims in rural Canada, and NBC co-produced...
Later this week, the classic Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer TV special airs on CBS 2 (Wednesday at 7 pm) which will open the gates on this year's round of Christmas TV specials. But to get an early jump on things, enjoy this old Mad TV spoof of Rudolph as filtered through the films of Martin Scorsese.
As it turns out, there are a LOT of Saw parodies. I really didn’t see this coming, but a basic search for “Saw Parody” on YouTube turns up a whole lot of pieces. Some of them I knew about, like Mad TV’s version. But then there are those like Jigsaw’s Crib, today’s short film target, [...]
Artie Lange has been a core cast member of the Howard Stern radio show for eight years. Even if you are not a Stern listener, you may have encountered Lange as a regular on Mad TV, or through one of his other, often controversial television appearances. He is also the author of the best-selling memoir [...]
Click Thumbnail For Larger Pics Nelly celebrated his birthday at the most famous gentleman’s club in the world. Magic City. Ocean’s 7 was in the building thick. Trey songs was on the scene, and JD was putting dollar bills in panties. Aries Spears was in the building as well, looking sort of rough [...]
Tonight’s three contestants are a worthwhile watch for anyone with a sense of blasphemous humor! Our first contestant is a video about substituting nails with glue. Our second contestant is a MAD TV video clip. Our third and final contestant would make a great Christmas present for your Fundamentalist relatives! I hope you have enjoyed each and every entry. [...]
LIGHTS, who's currently on tour in her home country of Canada, unleashed the video for new single "Ice" on her MySpace . The clip features her happily jamming on her keytar at home until the Juno Award-winning 22-year-old's evil doppelgänger appears, threatening to tip over her goldfish bowl! MORE »
Erica Ash, Paulette Ivory, Berlando Drake and Crystal Starr Knighton Wrapped in the sensational songs of the 60s, Baby It’s You! is the new musical about the groundbreaking girl group, The Shirelles and Florence Greenberg, the New Jersey housewife who discovered them. With the help of African-American songwriter, producer Luther Dixon, who became her lover, Florence [...]
The Wanda Sykes Show got a 2.2 rating and a 5 share! In human terms that means her numbers were 16% higher than Mad TV's last year, and 100% higher than Spike Feresten's numbers at the beginning of this...
Wanda Sykes ' new show premiered Saturday night on FOX-TV, and for much of the show the comedienne took shots at Fox News and conservative talkers. Sykes began her monologue with, "Let me be the first person on FOX not to pick on President Obama." From there, most of the show came from her political perspective, which is not in line with FNC's opinion hosts. In a parody of the film Paranormal...
FOX doesn’t give its new shows a lot of time to find their footing, and it seems that even Wanda Sykes might have feet made of clay. The network’s new Saturday night treat, The Wanda Sykes Show , is receiving some pretty dismal reviews. You might want to tune in before it’s too late. Entertainment Weekly found the opening monologue to be a “scattershot,” boring event,...