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"Comedy Up North" debuts June 12 in Anchorage, using stand-up to entertain and break mental health stigma. The series ...
Once Upon a Time was a great fantasy series, but it wasn't the first time a fantasy sitcom tried something similar.
There’s no denying that life is a rollercoaster, but for some, it can often feel like you’re riding blindfolded - unsure whether each twist and turn will ...
Baby Reindeer and Mr Bates vs the Post Office were the hot favourites coming into the 71st annual British Academy Television ...
There is a creepy part of this. The original Laff Box used to add canned laughter to TV shows (yes, its name included a double ff “laff” and it was indeed an intricate box) contained 320 ...
Across these 9 sci-fi TV shows, we’ll dive deep into simulated realities ... However, something feels very off behind the retro furniture and canned laughter. Every crack in the perfect suburban life, ...
Monty Python and the Holy Grail is widely considered to be among the best comedy films of all time, and it's certainly one of the most quotable. This absurdist masterpiece sending up Arthurian legend ...
Cue the canned laughter. But, admittedly, the most cringe-worthy attempt at low brow humor came last week when the Trump administration paraded a crime-victim’s mother through the briefing room.
After meeting (and quickly killing) a ninja able to pull a giant sword out of her cleavage, Satoko comes to believe she can do the same; they're both ninjas after all. And if she can do that, she can ...
They bring to mind Alvy Singer, in Annie Hall, stuck in a Los Angeles editing booth while a TV writer proudly demonstrates the corrective powers of a canned laughter machine: 'Give me a tremendous ...
“Horrendous canned laughter,” notes Mol ... strange about the audience noises invariably imposed on comic TV until the mid-1990s. No other scripted shows did that. You didn’t get gasps ...