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Alerts Clockwise from top left: Can’t Hardly Wait (Screenshot); Lady Bird (Screenshot); To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before (Photo: Netflix); The Artist (Screenshot); The Lovebirds (Photo: Netflix); The Little Hours (Photo: Gunpowder & Sky); The Incredible Jessica James (Photo: Netflix) Streaming libraries expand and contract. Algorithms are imperfect. Those damn thumbnail images are always changing. But you know what you can always rely on? The expert opinions and knowledgeable comme...

In the 44-year history of the NBC sketch comedy series, with its long lineage of cast members that have gone on to movie stardom, none of them have gone on to win an Oscar. The streak will stay alive for at least another year as two “SNL” veterans considered contenders for nominations this year were shut out on Monday. California Nov 26, 2019 A new batch of film nominations are out from an influential media organization — but superhero flicks and “Frozen 2” need not a...

SNL Writer Robert Smigel Defends Chris Farleys Iconic Chippendales Sketch SNL Writer Robert Smigel Defends Chris Farleys Iconic Chippendales Sketch Following criticism over the segment, former SNL writer Robert Smigel defended the classic Chippendales sketch with Chris Farley and Patrick Swayze. The classic Saturday Night Live sketch featuring Chris Farley and Patrick Swayze has drawn some criticism in more recent years, but former SNL writer and comedian Robert Smigel remembers it quite fond...

Lets Be Real: Puppet Andrew Cuomo Plots to Flatten a Different Curve — Watch a Sneak Peek TVLine 29/04/2021 © Fox screenshot A puppet version of Gov. Andrew Cuomo is here to warn New Yorkers about the biggest danger they’ll face this summer: himself. In the return of Fox’s Let’s Be Real (airing Thursdays at 9:30/8:30c), a marionette of Cuomo looks to “flatten the curve” of sexual harassment allegations in the city. With temperatures rising and women donning lighter clothing tha...

View Comments “Let’s Be Real” debut, 9:30 p.m., Fox. “The Moodys” — a slyly subtle comedy — never found an audience. Now Fox has replaced it with the blunt humor of Robert Smigel, who’s best-known for “TV Funhouse” and Triumph the Insult Comedy Dog. “Let’s Be Real” mixes people and puppets; a special last fall ranged from sharp wit to moments that only Triumph would enjoy. Now those puppets (Biden, Trump, etc.) meet new ones for Andrew Cuomo, Ted Cruz, Anthony Fauci, L...

Strings attached: why we’re still in love with puppet TV shows Charles Bramesco This month, junior gourmands are in luck. Tykes with sophisticated palates will find their interests catered to with the new series Duff’s Happy Fun Bake Time, in which celebrity chef and Ace of Cakes star Duff Goldman takes a younger audience through the nuts and bolts of cooking with a mad-scientist spin. As he demonstrates the basics of kid-friendly cuisine, he also breaks down the physical an...

An artistic Chernobyl: Hulu doc tells the story of Dana Carveys doomed ABC TV show FacebookTwitterEmail Dana Carvey and Stephen Colbert in episode four of "The Dana Carvey Show." ABC Photo Archives/Walt Disney Television via Gett If you grew up in the 1990s, there are probably a few TV shows that have been seared into your brain. That might be “Family Matters” or “Animaniacs,” but for Saturday Night Live alum Bill Hader, one of those shows was “The Dana Carvey Show.” “I bought a ...

This is the same notion at work in Waffles + Mochi, a recent Netflix series in which Michelle Obama leads a world tour of flavors, familiarizing kids with delicacies from Peru to Japan to allay the typical pickiness. In both cases, the famous faces are joined by a coterie of puppet pals; Waffles is a Yeti-looking critter with Eggos for ears and Mochi is a talking rice cake, while Goldman rolls with a sassy sloth, an ill-tempered crab and a know-it-all robot. They fit right in to a TV landscape ...

Sort of.  Comic Robert Smigel ― of Triumph the Insult Comic Dog fame ― visits a puppet version of McConnell in a clip for his new show, “Let’s Be Real,” and a short trip into the fake McConnell home proves to be very enlightening.  “An asteroid is about to hit the planet,” the off-camera voice asks the mock McConnell in a parody of the Vanity Fair “73 Questions” videos. “What should we do?”  “It’d be inappropriate to do anything with the presidential election right ...

Jimmy Kimmel is slammed for signing up to host star-studded fundraiser for autism non-profit - which critics claim promote abusive treatments and advocate for aborting babies that are on the spectrum Jimmy Kimmel has teamed up with former NASA engineer Mark Rober on Color The Spectrum: A Livestream To Support The Autism Community The three-hour YouTube fundraiser will stream on April 30 and has already raised nearly $1 million for NEXT for Autism Celebrities slated to appear include Maya Rudol...