Spoiler ahead if you didn’t yet watch last week’s Top Chef!!!
As we count down the hours until episode 7 of Top Chef: Las Vegas let us take a moment to look back and honor its most recent exile, Chef Ron Duprat. His childlike wonder delighted us through half a dozen episodes, and although at times [...]
Entries from September 2009
2009/09/30
Farewell to My Favorite Top Chef
2009/09/30
SNL (and SNL Related) Round Up: F-Bombs, Fieri and Fallon
Continuing with the ‘F’ theme, first let me apologize for a little bit of a hiatus, following a period of unprecedented output. I will (hopefully) be returning to regular updates now. Moving on!
After the tease that is Weekend Update Thursday, Saturday Night Live returned for real this past weekend to, I must say, middling results. [...]
2009/09/17
Parks and Recreation: Another Look
Like many of you, I was both skeptical and curious when Parks and Recreation premiered last spring. From the minds behind The Office, and at one time referred to as the Office spin-off, the pressure was immense, as would be the scrutiny. Could producers Greg Daniels and Michael Shur strike gold twice? Could they take [...]
2009/09/15
Jay Leno Still Jay Leno. Why is Anyone Surprised?
So when the critics say that The Jay Leno Show is too similar to Leno on The Tonight Show, they really just mean that it’s also not funny, right? Who cares if it’s the same format (minus a desk during interviews), the important thing is to produce an entertaining 60 minutes. And that [...]
2009/09/15
Big Week for Yvonne Hudson (And Other Forgotten SNL Cast Members)
In a feature I’ve been meaning to link to for days, NY Mag’s Vulture blog slideshowed “The Michaela Watkins Club,” a gallery of other not yet ready for prime time players who had blink and you missed it stints on SNL. When researching for my post analyzing the dismissal of Watkins and Casey Wilson, I [...]
2009/09/15
My Favorite VMA Moment: 15-Year Old Defends Taylor Swift, Starts Beef?
I returned home late last night after absorbing a brutal pub trivia loss, compounded (or alleviated) by the fact that the winning team included Thom Yorke. Yes, that Thom Yorke. I mean, I don’t see how we could have won when out of three categories one was a music round and we were competing against [...]
2009/09/10
What, Lorne Michaels Worry?
And SNL week continues:
In yesterday’s Washington Post columnist Tom Shales previews the trepidation that is coming with the soon to arrive 35th season of Saturday Night Live. He is right on when he asserts that SNL
“…has been up and down in ratings and quality (never falling as low as it has risen high) over the [...]
2009/09/08
The Edge is Really Serious About Being The Edge
This past week’s Entertainment Weekly included a Q&A with U2’s The Edge about the new documentary It Might Get Loud, in which he appears with Jack Black and Jimmy Page. When asked if he has a favorite White Stripes song he responds,
“…I wrote this sketch of a song, which I was really excited about. I [...]
2009/09/08
Whew. Crisis Averted. Kristen Wiig Not Joining Weekend Update
I was just about to write a post expressing my disappointment with the news/rumors that Kristen Wiig would be taking Amy Poehler’s place at the Weekend Update desk alongside Seth Meyers. To me, that’s a mistake. The idea is to alleviate Wiig’s workload, not increase it. And it doesn’t make sense to award her the [...]
2009/09/08
Lorne Michaels Dismisses Michaela Watkins and Casey Wilson & It Makes Sense: SNL Past, Present and Future
The news broke late on Friday that Michaela Watkins and Casey Wilson were not asked back for Saturday Night Live’s 35th season. This development came on the heels of the announcement earlier in the week that comediennes Jenny Slate and Nasim Pedrad had been chosen as the newest not yet ready for prime time players. [...]
