The best part of having a birthday is the cake because it’s hard to mess up. Even a bad cake is still pretty good, right? I think so. If you’re attempting to make it yourself, keep it simple. If you ...

Some smart designs make life easier, some make it better, and then there are the ones that make you wonder how they even made it past the drawing board. Whether it’s a door that won’t open, a sign ...

One of the most common praises of art – be it music, literature, comedy or anything else – is to refer to it as “timeless.” What people tend to mean by this is that even though a given piece of art ...

The Dana Carvey Show is a comedy outlier. Briefly airing on ABC in the spring of 1996, the high-profile sketch series has the ignoble distinction of being one of the most notorious failures in TV ...

This feast of tidbits for comedy nerds is a look at the cult classic sketch show guided by Stephen Colbert, Steve Carell and Carvey himself. Enough time has passed since the preemptive demise of “The ...

Our Flick of the Week is ”Punchline,” which gets our vote as the most overhyped movie since last week`s ”Gorillas in the Mist.” ”Punchline” is supposed to be Tom Hanks` big dramatic breakthrough movie ...

What happens when unfunny TV comedy and unfunny Internet comedy intersect in prime time? MPEGs (videos) or JPEGS (photos), it isn’t pretty. That’s the scenario for “Dot Comedy,” half an hour of “wild, ...