gay marriage-related stories
Posted Sep 17th 2009 10:01AM by Brad Trechak
Filed under: OpEd, Celebrities, Reality-Free
Not only is
The Newlywed Game hosting its first ever gay couple. It's hosting its first ever gay celebrity couple. At least, one of them is a pretty well-known celebrity. George "Mr. Sulu" Takei and his partner Brad Altman
will be appearing on the program. Although they've been together for over 20 years, they were only legally married last year (before all that Proposition 8 hoopla nullified gay marriage in California).
In case nobody remembers the rules to game: each partner is given a question about the relationship without the other partner present. If each member of the couple give the same answer, they win points. Considering that they've been together for 20 years, somebody is going to be pretty pissed off if one or the other gives a different answer to the same question. Hopefully it won't lead to a divorce. The most interesting answers in the game will come from any question about "making whoopee".
Posted Jun 18th 2008 11:39AM by Annie Wu
Filed under: OpEd, The Daily Show, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free
Jon Stewart kicked off the night with some anger fueled by Mets love. Mets manager
Willie Randolph was fired in a rather unceremonious manner. He was all the way on the other side of the country, contacted at 3:00 a.m. and fired by Mr. Met. Sick burn.
"The Gay After": In other news,
same-sex marriage is now legal in California, and, somehow, the state is still attached to the rest of the country and it hasn't been engulfed in flames. Hmm, interesting. Some newsworthy couples have tied the knot since this announcement, including
George Takei, who married his long-time partner. I just started one of my Summer mini-projects, watching the entire original
Star Trek series in preparation for its TV Squad's
Retro Squad week, and while I know I'm a newbie Trekkie, I'm pretty sure Takei's name is pronounced "Tek-ayy." It allows for maximum fun in rhyming, "George Takei is gay."
Continue reading The Daily Show: June 17, 2008 - VIDEOS
Posted May 16th 2008 1:05PM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Celebrities, Talk Show
On today's episode of
The Ellen DeGeneres Show, Ellen will announce that
she and long-time girlfriend Portia de Rossi are getting married.
Her announcement is in response to
this week's ruling from the California Supreme Court that everybody has a "right to marry" whomever they choose. The justices ruled that the state's ban on gay marriage is unconstitutional. It makes California the second state, after Massachusetts, that will allow same-sex marriage. The legal battle began in San Francisco when the mayor allowed same-sex couples to marry (Rosie O'Donnell and her partner, Kelly, married at that time).
Continue reading Ellen Degeneres to marry Portia de Rossi
Posted Jan 22nd 2007 1:02AM by Jen Creer
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, ABC, Brothers and Sisters
(
S01E13) This is the best episode the show has had yet. It had sex, drama, multi-generational relationships, alcohol, mishaps, and really bad puns. It was great.
The premise of the show is simple enough. It's the premise of every show, only this time with a Birthday Theme: Murphy's Law. Everything that can go wrong will go wrong, but we'll all end up having a great time.
In the interest of full disclosure, I should tell you that I read romance novels, and I adore mystery novels and procedural programs such as
Law and Order and
CSI. Yes, I was an English major. And yes, all of these things are completely formulaic and a slap in my education's face. But I don't care. Because the formula works for me. I can predict everything that will happen from the opening moments, but I still enjoy myself anyway. Because I am in it for the ride. I know how everything is going to go on the roller coaster, too, but I still strap myself into the car every single time.
Continue reading Brothers and Sisters: Something Ida This Way Comes
Posted Jan 8th 2007 12:14AM by Jen Creer
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, ABC, OpEd, Brothers and Sisters
(
S01E11) While I was watching the scenes with Nora working at Ojai, I kind of hated this show, and hated myself for watching it. Even though I knew that I would be tuning in week after week regardless of whether or not I was reviewing it. But then it got better.
So, what do you think? Should Rob Lowe's character, Senator Dreamy McCallister, be excused for voting against gay marriage when the measure wasn't going to pass anyway? Was it okay for him not to make a stand, when he had an education measure he wanted to pass? I'm going to have to say no. He admits that he regrets the vote, but he also wanted Kitty to come and work for him. And he is good at getting what he wants. But low and behold, he has a cute gay brother. Oh please no. Oh please no.
Continue reading Brothers and Sisters: Family Day
Posted Dec 8th 2006 11:01AM by Joel Keller
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, NBC, ER, Interviews, Celebrities
When people who have met John Stamos say that he's a nice, charming, down-to-earth guy, they're not kidding. He's so damned charming that twice during my phone conversation with him last week, I told him that since he already had my number, he should call me to talk about TV off-the record. (Hey, the guy said to me both times that he enjoyed the conversation. And we talked about New Jersey -- he did a movie in Freehold once. So I caved.)
It's that likability that has carried his career for the last twenty-five years, from
General Hospital to
Full House to
ER. It's also what he hopes will draw people to
Wedding Wars, an A&E original movie that will air Monday at 9 PM. In the comedy, he plays Shel, a gay party planner who sparks a national pro-gay-marriage movement when he goes on strike while planning the wedding of his brother Ben (Eric Dana).,The strike happens after he finds out Ben wrote an anti-gay marriage speech for his boss, the governor of Maine.
I spoke to Stamos about the movie for The New York Post, but while I had him on the phone, I couldn't resist asking him about
ER, his Uncle Jesse mullet, and his friendship with Howard Stern. The interview is after the jump.
Continue reading John Stamos: The TV Squad Interview
Posted Nov 14th 2006 3:15PM by Brett Love
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, NBC, Watercooler Talk, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip
I'm happy to join the group praising NBC for giving full season orders to both
Studio 60 and
Friday Night Lights. Many of us are quick to get our dander up when a network hits the cancellation button too quickly, so it's great to see one of them actually giving shows a chance to grow. They should be applauded for that. That said, I hope that the memo regarding the pickup for
Studio 60 came with a friendly suggestion not unlike the one that Jordan gave Harriet in last night's episode. For the next six weeks Aaron, just pretend that God, gay marriage, crazy Christians... hell, anything remotely to do with religion, just pretend that none of it even exists in the
Studio 60 world.
Continue reading Six weeks Aaron, six weeks
Posted Jul 27th 2006 1:08PM by Annie Wu
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, Cable, Late Night, OpEd, The Daily Show, Comedy Central
Okay, so Condoleezza Rice
went to Rome for a meeting about the Lebanon situation. It didn't go so well. Jon showed a Condimeter graphic to illustrate just how bad it was (
TDS has been really graphic-happy lately). Of course, the meeting wasn't as great as "Three days alone at Camp David with the President" or "Christmas morning"... It ended up somewhere between "Kofi Annan cops a feel" and "Bin Laden determined to attack WHERE?!". I have a feeling I may have switched up a few of those details, so apologies ahead of time. I swear
TDS knows I'm scrambling to type this all down. They probably have a hidden camera on my monitor, broadcasting live right into Jon's office so that they can giggle at my panic.
Continue reading The Daily Show: July 26, 2006
Posted Jun 7th 2006 6:06PM by Annie Wu
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, Cable, Late Night, OpEd, The Daily Show, Comedy Central
"
6/6/06": "The day of the devil? Or... regular numerical seeeequence?" Cue the thunder and twitchy eyebrows. Multiple news networks wouldn't shut up about the possibility of impending doom. Some even felt the need to explain the significance of the day, reporting that some people believed that bad things would happen on 6/6/06... "bad things like the Apocalypse". No, no. Losing your keys is
bad... The Apocalypse is, well, shitty. "Shitty" went un-bleeped. I'm seriously getting more and more confused as to when bleeping is necessary. Aaanyway...
Continue reading The Daily Show: June 6, 2006
Posted Apr 30th 2006 9:39PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: FOX, OpEd, Family Guy, Animation
(S05E15) Hahahahahahahahahaha. Hahaha
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Sorry, I just laughed throughout this entire episode. I guess there's just something really funny about gay dogs getting married and a giant gold statue of Dig 'Em, the Sugar Smacks mascot.
Continue reading Family Guy: You May Now Kiss The...Uh...Guy Who Receives
Andy Richter: The TV Squad Interview
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