robert deniro-related stories
Posted Mar 3rd 2009 12:46PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Late Night, OpEd, Watercooler Talk, Talk Show, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free
It's almost unfair to review the first episode of a new talk show. After all, the show will be different every night, with different guests, different sketches, different musical guests. So to sit here and talk about what was good and bad about the first episode of
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon would be unfair and silly. But let's do it anyway!
There's one thing I loved right away, and it had nothing to do with the host, his guests, the band, the sketches, or the audience. Can you guess what it was? The pic above is a clue.
Continue reading So how was Jimmy Fallon on his first Late Night?
Posted Jun 23rd 2008 11:23AM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Episode Reviews, Reality-Free, In Plain Sight
(S01E04) Okay, this was the best episode of
In Plain Sight to date. Action-packed and filled with character revelations, if this is where
In Plain Sight is going, it's going to definitely make it beyond this premiere season.
The set up has Marshall and Mary taking custody of a seemingly innocuous, diabetic, asthmatic accountant/arranger for a hit man named Lola. He's been caught in an FBI sting and will go WITSEC in exchange for "delivering" Lola.
Expertly played by Dave Foley (
News Radio), he's just enough of an unctuous ass to make him amusing. When Mary throws him to the ground and pounces on him, he says, "Could you get off of me, you're not exactly petite."
The role was very much like Charles Grodin, a mob accountant, in the movie
Midnight Run, with Robert DeNiro as the bounty hunter forced to take him cross country. (If you haven't seen it, do yourself a favor and rent it; it's great!)
Continue reading In Plain Sight: Trojan Horst
Posted Aug 20th 2007 10:00AM by Joel Keller
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, TV on DVD, OpEd
Yes, I know it's been a couple of months since the second season of
Extras came out on DVD. But since
I reviewed Season One earlier this year, I figured it would only be fair to look over Season Two, even if it's only for anal completist reasons (Of course, our UK Bureau -- otherwise known as "Martin Conaghan" -- reviewed the series when it aired on the BBC; his reviews start 1/4 of the way down
this page).
From everything I heard and read, the second season of the Ricky Gervais / Stephen Merchant comedy was better than the first season. Of course, given the high standards set by Gervais and Merchant, that was saying a lot. After watching Season Two, I have to say that I agree with those assessments, but not for the reason that you think.
Continue reading Extras: The Complete Second Season - DVD review
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