Casper Kelly, the creator of the biggest thing on the internet last week, "Too Many Cooks," says that when devising the wide-ranging parody's twisted plot, he aimed to break patterns. As soon as you got used to the video's repetitive nature, he wanted to throw at you something you weren't expecting.
This is a scene from an episode of Friends written by a bot called the Infinite Friends Machine.
For the next few weeks, we'll be evaluating many of the new fall shows as they air. Last night, the other gay show premiered. In addition to Partners being the new New Normal, it's also the new Will & Grace since that show's creators, Max Mutchnick and David Kohan, devised this one too. Double the pleasure, then.
Jada Yuan's New York cover story on Mindy Kaling contains the most perfect summary of what the writer-comedian-actress means to pop culture, as stated by Fox Entertainment President Kevin Reilly:
For the next few weeks, we'll be evaluating many of the new fall shows as they air. And then many of them will go away, and we'll never think of them again. It sounds sad, but for reducing clutter in our lives, this counts as a happy ending. We should always be so lucky as to have fleeting things before us to consider…
Sometime in the middle of this summer, I came up with the title "Confessions of a Part-Time Sexy Dyke" for my web series. I imagined the series remixing the traditional American queer coming-of-age narrative with my experience as a 21-year-old African immigrant. I came up with a theme song and even filmed an intro to…
Tonight was the premiere of a new TBS sitcom about four dudes who just hang out, get drunk and hook up. Men at Work was, believe it or not, created by actor Breckin Meyer and it shows. Here's the pilot's most bro-tactular observations about sex, drugs and friendship.
Last night was the premiere of a new MTV sitcom, I Just Want My Pants Back. It tells the heart warming tale of four young hipsters looking for love, riding the J train and thinking about environmental sustainability. Fret not if you didn't catch it, here's a thirty second recap of the show at its most hipster-douchey.
Tonight, CBS premiered a new sitcom vehicle for Rob Schneider and, not at all surprisingly, it is terrible. In the show Schneider marries into a Mexican-American family, and that is excuse enough to deliver thirty minutes of clichéd buzzwords of Latino culture. Here are all of them.
Tonight NBC premiered a new sitcom, Are You There, Chelsea wherein Laura Prepon (of That 70's Show) plays Chelsea Handler and Chelsea Handler plays her own older sister. The show is based on one of Handler's memoirs, Are You There Vodka, It's Me Chelsea and even though NBC decided to strike the vodka mention in the…
We saw it coming a long way off, even before it pissed off gay activists, but Work It, ABC's new men-dressing-as-women-to-get-jobs sitcom, is by far the worst thing on television. Yeah, its' mildly offensive, but even worse than that, it is just plain awful.
The concept for NBC's Up All Night, which premiered last night, is a great one: get a hip pair of thirtysomethings like Christina Applegate and Will Arnett and show what happens when they decide to become parents. The problem is it's a great concept for a movie—not a TV show.
Weep not for Charlie Sheen, who lost one of his goddesses recently: The actor has reportedly signed a deal with Lionsgate Television to develop and star in a new sitcom. According to "an insider" who spoke with RadarOnline:
After Charlie Sheen trashed a hotel room and abused a hooker, Two and a Half Men's ratings soared: 13.6 million people watched Monday's episode called "The Crazy Bitch Gazette." Coincidentally, that's also what Charlie Sheen's publicist calls his press releases.
"Shh... Don't Tell Steve" is a just-announced CBS sit-com based on a Twitter account where a guy secretly tweets about his slob roommate. Unfair! When I tweeted about my roommate I just got an angry phone call from him.
Senator/Grandpa Burke arrives just in time to explain some of the show's bizarre familial backstory, which puts the "situation" in Situation Comedy. Unsurprisingly—and awesomely—the character is cut from the same cloth as Mona from Who's the Boss?
In this clip from the second episode — which aired after the pilot Tuesday — stockbroker-turned-nanny Joey is moving himself into aunt-turned-guardian Melissa's basement. It may be the very definition of "situation comedy," but the actors are irreverent and likable.
In order to seem edgy, nearly every new TV comedy infuses itself with a sense of zaniness. Watching Weeds and The Big C last night, we saw one show do wacky right, and one do it horrendously wrong.
Good (?) news, 30 Rock fans: NBC is going to air a live episode of the show on October 14th. So this will essentially be the November 15, 2003 SNL episode when Alec Baldwin hosted. Sounds good. [WSJ]
Humble brunette Barbara lives in a fifth-floor walk-up, doesn't own a TV, and takes the bus. Spoiled blonde Jenna lives in the 'burbs, got a job by nepotism, and crashes at Manhattan hotels. Two in the Bush, Mondays at 9.
