Subject: Sitcoms

• Interview with the Busdriver

  August 13, 2007

• Last Minute Thursday: Brian Posehn at Tempe Improv

  May 29, 2008

• Short-Attention-Span Theatre

  February 22, 1996

• Beav Jerky

  Leave It to Beaver rerunning on empty

  August 21, 1997

• The Network Guy

  Couch Potato Nation receives a black eye from TV-trashing The Truman Show

  June 4, 1998

• Color Guard

  Sneaky social satire Pleasantville changes the Fifties from vanilla to tutti frutti

  October 22, 1998

• Acting Up

  Inspired performances, direction redeem vapid material

  November 12, 1998

• Candied Camera

  Lightweight EDtv could stand some dramatic fine tuning

  March 25, 1999

• Best Cocktail

  Merc Bar

  September 20, 2001

• Theater Scene

  What's running now

  February 2, 2006

• Witherspoon and Vaughn’s Carol Is Four Christmases Too Many

  November 27, 2008

• Will Work for Laughs

  December 18, 2008

• So, Four Comedians Walk Into a Bar . . .

  November 20, 2008

• Full Leather Jacket

  The Fonz singing showtunes? It could be worse.

  November 13, 2008

• All About Eve

  And nothing about The Sitcom That Shall Not Be Named

  October 16, 2008

• Much Ado About Nothing

  September 18, 2008

• Standup Guy

  June 5, 2008

• So, Six Comedians Walk Into a Bar . . .

  For the punch line, hit the Improv

  September 20, 2007

• Franchise Player

  March 15, 2007

• Bugs and Basques

  Mexican TV humor and surname sticklers

  December 7, 2006

• Dark Star Rising

  Watch out for the undertow

  November 30, 2006

• These Dogs Still Hunt

  October 26, 2006

• The Break-Ups

  Stale romantic comedy has neither romance nor comedy

  August 31, 2006

• Shut Up, Already

  August 3, 2006

• Embarrassment of Riches

  May 4, 2006

• Oh, Grow Up

  McConaughey's perfect movie is a pretty good one for us, too

  March 9, 2006

• And Then There's Bea

  Arthur, Arthur

  February 23, 2006

• 17 Again Shows That Zac Efron Should Stick to Musicals

  April 16, 2009

• The Write Stuff

  Everybody still loves Raymond

  October 20, 2005

• You So Lazy

  Martin Lawrence in a crappy kid movie? Whassup with that?

  June 30, 2005

• Cursed

  A spell badly cast

  June 23, 2005

• Who'd Guess

  Bernie and Ashton may be better than Spencer and Sidney

  March 24, 2005

• All You Can Eat

  December 16, 2004

• Bridget Jones: The Edge of Treason

  November 11, 2004

• Lazy Like a Foxx

  May 13, 2004

• Hack, Man

  What's a great actor doing in a dump like Mooseport?

  February 19, 2004

• Lady Luck

  BTT gets Holiday Blues

  December 25, 2003

• Laugh In

  Local comics pull an all-nighter

  August 28, 2003

• Year in TV: Fear Factor

  But just think, no one hates TV more than Trent Lott

  January 2, 2003

• Almost? Not Even.

  Penny Lane grows up and looks kind of like her mom

  September 19, 2002

• It Happens

  Ohmigod! Five seasons in, South Park's the funniest show on TV

  July 26, 2001

• Good Cop, Bad Cop

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

  March 8, 2001

• Mel Sells Out

  What Women Want is a movie that's better than this two-hour advertisement

  December 14, 2000

• Prayberry RFD

  Valley church group finds salvation in Andy Griffith Show reruns

  November 23, 2000

• A Portrait of Jeni

  April 20, 2000

• One Toque Over the Line

  Banished to PBS' back burner, rollicking Chef! is still cooking with gas

  September 25, 1997

• HIP-HOP SITCOM BOOM? BAH!

  June 1, 1995

• REMARRIED . . . WITH CHILDREN

  IT'S THE STORY OF A GROOVY MOVIE . . .

  February 16, 1995

• SLAY RIDE

  September 8, 1994

• Despite Its Premise, Humpday Isn’t Really About Gay Sex

  August 6, 2009