LENNY BRUCE UNDER ARREST —AGAIN H ere's a clip of Lenny Bruce appearing on Steve Allen's show, April 5, 1959—one of only six ap...

A  gentleman at one of the Mystery Science Theater 3000 message boards wrote to say that in the last couple of years, he'd lost his...

R ecently I was browsing through a bookstore that I’ve been known to frequent from time to time, doing what I usually do when I’m in a ...

D oes anyone care about the World Series anymore? More to the point of this site, does anyone watch it anymore? The first three games o...

X ere's a little class to liven up your Wednesday—a hilarious spoof of the opera Pagliacci by Sid Caesar and his merry band of craz...

R ecently I was browsing through a bookstore that I’ve been known to frequent from time to time, doing what I usually do when I’m in a boo...

W e all know that television is nothing if not derivative. From the beginning of the industry, successful programming has bred copycats; a...

F or some reason—because I seldom remember having watched it when I was growing up—I found myself immersed in watching this clip from Amer...

H ere's another timeless headline for you: why television turns off college students – and vice versa. Today, we’d ascribe this phenom...

I posted this at the other blog a couple of weeks ago, but thought it might be appreciated over here as well.  It's a wonderful spoof...

I t seems inconceivable that a blog dedicated in large part to culture can let the end of The Sopranos go by without comment. Indeed, thoug...