TV Comedies

A Dark Look at Light Help

Relax, Late-Night Reisers

Cartoons, Not Animation

With big-studio millions behind him, Genndy Tartakovsky still goes it alone.

“Gigolo” Was More Of A Hobby

Fear, Loathing and Tons of Strippers: What Happens When the GOP Comes to Town

Deep-Dish Sketch Comedy

Seth McFarlane's Ted is Unbearable Stuff

It's Good to Be King

Bill Hader as Rick Perry: "I'd Be Such a Good President If There Wasn't Talking Involved"

Pretty lackluster episode of Saturday Night Live last night -- and no, that isn't a cue for you to go on about how the show hasn't been worth watching since (insert whatever era during which you first saw the show). It's been strong lately, a nice mix of "funny ha-ha" and "funny weird," as comedy ... More >>

It's Time For A Full Mooney

Burn Bans Force Colbert to Mess With Texas

The Colbert ReportGet More: Colbert Report Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,Video ArchiveOn Tuesday, you'll recall, Dallas County went under a 90-day outdoor-burn ban, which includes shootin' off fireworks within the city limits. Violators will be popped with a class-C misdemeanor tic ... More >>

The Problem With... Katy Perry's "Last Friday Night"

I'm starting to think the whole '80s retro thing has run its course. We've seen plenty of it in recent memory, and now Katy Perry's latest single "Last Friday Night" is the latest attempt to pull at your nostalgic side -- while referencing, of course, to the ABC sitcom block T.G.I.F.  Ugh. So. ... More >>

In TV Series News: Dallas Is Coming to Look at Dallas. And: ABC Gives Bitches an Order.

Patrick MichelsLarry Hagman, Patrick Duffy and Linda Gray at Southfork Ranch at the Dallas reunion in November '08​The teevee networks, major and minor and cable and otherwise, are starting to slow-roll-out their next-season pilots. And two, very specifically, affect Dallas -- which would love to ... More >>

State Rep. Johnson Would Like Gov. Perry to Go Get Some of That Federal Small-Bidness Money

​On the other side's a letter state Rep. Eric Johnson sent Governor Rick Perry yesterday, in which the District 100 representative asks Perry to apply for federal funds intended to "provide critical resources to help small businesses continue to drive economic recovery and create jobs." That's per ... More >>

Suds and Laughs

Mark Cuban Selects the Hottest Girl in America. Sort Of.

​Had a day off from 105.3 The Fan Wednesday (thank you, Texas Rangers) so - in between writing a Dallas Cowboys-centric Observer cover story that will hit stands September 2 - I caught up on some Tivo. Daily Show = Good. Entourage = Better. True Blood: More better. Family Guy = Best. The ... More >>

Jon Stewart Doesn't Like Joe Barton, and He's Not Impressed With Rex Tillerson Either

​No doubt by now you've heard all about Rep. Joe Barton of Arlington telling BP chief exec Tony Hayward how sorry he is -- how so so so so so sorry he is -- that President Obama shook him down for a $20 billion "slush fund." And by slush fund, he meant dough to be doled out to those in the Gulf Co ... More >>

Beat It, Purple Rain

The Daily Show Sends Jason Jones to Get to the Bottom of Dallas Gay Divorce Case

Peter Schulte and the petitioner still known as J.B. on The Daily Show last night ... but what is it about that vase ...?​No doubt you recall the October ruling from Judge Tena Callahan of Dallas County's 302nd Family District Court, who said there was no good reason for the courts not to consider ... More >>

Be Klein, Rewind

The Daily Show Gets Motivated With Dubya; The Rachel Maddow Show Visits The Lodge

Megan, of course, attended George W. Bush's coming-out as a motivational speaker Monday at the Fort Worth Convention Center; we've also got the slide show to prove it. Last night on The Daily Show, Jon Stewart weighed in; the Star-Telegram's reporting on the Get Motivated! founders gets a brief shou ... More >>

If The Drummer In The Background Looks Familiar, It's Because He Should.

Wait till right around the one-minute mark in the above clip and you'll catch a familiar face backing Regina Spektor during her Saturday Night Live performance from this weekend: Denton-based Midlake and Fieros drummer McKenzie Smith. Neat-o!

Bill of Laughs

Mos Def

Tuesday, August 18, at House of Blues

This American Life's Ira Glass Points Toward the "Wide-Open" Future of Journalism

Kimberly ThorpeThis American Life's Ira Glass signed books and DVDs for Mayborn'ers late into the night Saturday in Grapevine.​For Ira Glass, the 50-year-old host of Chicago Public Radio's This American Life, doing radio is like talking on the phone to somebody late at night. "There's an intimacy ... More >>

Elvis Costello

Secret, Profane & Sugarcane (Hear)

Full Mooney

Stephen Colbert (Ahem) Supports (Wink Wink) Pete Sessions's "Insurgency" Remarks

Last week, Rep. Pete Sessions had to be interrupted by an aide during an interview with the National Journal when he just couldn't stop putting the words "insurgency," "Republican Party" and "Taliban" in the same sentences. Which is how Sessions, makin' the 32nd District proud, wound up as the subje ... More >>

Family Affair

Tony Rock plays the Improv

Words To Live By...

"Why is cheese delicious on Italian food, but when you melt it on Chinese food, it's disgusting?" (Jason Jones, The Daily Show)

Oh, And Tonight's Ice Cube Show? Canceled.

  Hope you watched Barbershop on Comedy Central this afternoon (no joke, it just finished up a few minutes ago), as that's the closest you'll get to seeing Ice Cube today. The Prophet Bar's Web site is now reporting that the show has been canceled. No word yet on any reschedules. --Pete Freedm ... More >>

Live from a Dallas Private School, It's ... Barack Obama on SNL? Maybe.

Wyatt Cenac as Barack Obama Tina Brown's Daily Beast reports that four contenders are in the running to oust Fred Armisen as Saturday Night Live's Barack Obama -- and two of them, heyheyhey, happen to be Dallas private schools graduates. One we introduced back in June, when Jesuit College Prepara ... More >>

Blue By Them

So, What Did I Miss?

Tonight on The Daily Show, Jesuit Grad Wyatt Cenac Becomes Part of "The Best F*&#ing News Team Ever"

Mr. Minimal

Two-Death Minimum

Solve a mystery at the Improv

Big Bad Bill

Please don't boo Mr. Burr

Touch of Evel

Seasons in the Sun

Fort Worth Curves

Holiday Haggis

So Very Beck-cellent!

Press Time

¡Ask a Mexican!

Burr-ly Man

This stand-up gets some hearty laughs

Good Cop, Bad Cop

Denis Leary is on The Job, but can ABC find him an audience?

Girls, girls, girls

The Kids (in the Hall) are still quite all right

Joe Bob in Bloom

John Bloom has taken his alter ego, Joe Bob Briggs, and gone Hollywood. But watching America's favorite drive-in movie critic on television these days, a new character is emerging: John Bloom himself

Kid in a Candy store

Brain Candy's Scott Thompson charts the strange evolution of the Kids in the Hall