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Best Songs About Cult TV Shows
Game of Thrones With Game of Thrones now returning to the television screen in all its bloody, murderous glory, Sarah was tasked with compiling a list of the best songs inspired by cult TV shows. The...
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The Red Book Diaries of George Stroumboulopoulos Tonight
George Stroumboulopoulos Tonight’s Red Book Diaries One of the duties I was tasked with while part of the tenth and final season of George Stroumboulopoulos Tonight was shepherding the Red Book...
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Coeur de Pirate On Loving Liz Lemon, Covering Kenny Rogers And What She...
Coeur de Pirate Béatrice Martin, better known as the A+ list chanteuse Coeur De Pirate in Quebec, happens to be a big fan of the bumbling, stumbling 30 Rock character Liz Lemon. Sarah found this out...
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James Mercer Says Shins-Decemberist Fake ‘Portlandia’ Band May Have A Future
The members of Echo Echo It was the wildest fantasy of music nerds come to life. James Mercer of the Shins, Colin Meloy of the Decemberists and Corin Tucker formerly of Sleater-Kinney got together...
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Reliving Woodstock ’99 From The Couch
Woodstock ’99 poster and bill Inspired by writer friend Josh Ostroff’s very good I-was-there piece reliving the horrors of what it was like being at Woodstock ’99 exactly 15 years ago I went and...
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There’s A Mike Tyson Cartoon And It Looks Amazing
Cartoon Mike Tyson There’s apparently going to be a new cartoon called Mike Tyson Mysteries this fall on Adult Swim. Judging from the trailer it’s going to be the best show ever. Sarah wrote about it...
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The Trailer Park Boys’ Guide To Music
Trailer Park Boys While you weren’t paying attention, Bubbles, Julian and Ricky, the reprobates that make up the Trailer Park Boys, have gone international. Thanks to a new deal with Netflix for...
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Randy Couture vs. Chuck Liddell 4: Dance-Fight
Randy Couture As UFC history tells it, there have been three fights between Randy Couture and Chuck Liddell, with Liddell scoring two victories to Couture’s one. History is wrong, though. The pair have...
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In Living Color’s Most Interesting Fight Sketches
In Living Color Back in the day In Living Color was the funniest show around what with Homey The Clown and such. The show also frequently liked to showcase sketches related to the fighting arts with...
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That Time Andy Dick Beat Joe Rogan In A Fight
Andy Dick vs. Joe Rogan Nineties sitcom NewsRadio was way ahead of the curve in a number of ways. One that stood out for Sarah was the way the show portrayed mixed martial arts during a time when...
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The Story Behind The Metal T-Shirt Dave Grohl Wore To The Grammys
Dave Grohl shows off his Children shirt on the 2015 Grammy red carpet. A funny thing happened at the 57th Grammy Awards on Sunday night: Dave Grohl wore a t-shirt to the fancy music industry dress-up...
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A Brief History Of Fighting In Sitcoms
Homer Simpson can take a punch There are a number of classic plots that pop up regularly in sitcoms — the broken-telephone episode, the grandpa-comes-to-visit episode, the high school reunion episode,...
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TIFF Acknowledges We’re In A TV Golden Age
True Detective The folks at the Toronto International Film Festival have decided to include television shows in the festival this year under the banner Primetime. TV, apparently, has gotten so good (in...
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‘Silicon Valley’ Takes On The UFC
Silicon Valley’s main characters If you haven’t been watching the new Mike Judge sitcom Silicon Valley you’re basically a stupid person. The show featured one of the best jokes in television history...
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Coldplay’s Game Of Thrones Musical For Red Nose Day USA
The Rastafarian Targaryen That Game Of Thrones: The Musical idea that Coldplay unveiled last week was pretty brilliant what with its “Rastafarian Targaryen” and Tyrion Lannister’s humblebrag he’s still...
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Bob Hope’s Boxing History
Bob Hope, boxing fan One of the world’s most legendary comedians also had a bit of a boxing past. And he used it to get laughs for decades. It seems Bob Hope knew how to throw a punch well enough to...
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I Interviewed My Mom About Watching Game Of Thrones For The First Time
Cersei’s walk of shame. When I bought the third season of Game Of Thrones for Aaron, the teller asked me if I’d seen it yet. “Sort of,” I shrugged. “My husband’s into it, so I get him to fill me in on...
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Matthew McConaughey’s Fight Resume
Matthew McConaughey In Sarah’s ongoing analysis of various Hollywood stars’ fight pedigree her most recent target was True Detective Matthew McConaughey. It turns out Mr. Alright Alright Alright knows...
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Christopher Meloni’s Wet Hot Martial Arts
Christopher Meloni in Wet Hot American Summer: First Day Of Camp Christopher Meloni has reprised his role as Gene, the PTSD-afflicted camp cook, for Netflix’s Wet Hot American Summer: First Day Of...
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Roddy Piper Remembered
Roddy Piper When pro wrestler/actor/entertainer Roddy Piper died on July 31 it sent a whole world who grew up on his moral grey area villainy in mourning. He was, after all, The Joker to Hulk Hogan’s...
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