To Sitcom Hell and Back

Getting her own sitcom nearly killed Margaret Cho, and she talks about the experience in her new show I'm the One That I Want.

"...became the first Asian-American to star in her own sitcom, All-American Girl...."

Oct. 1, 1999 Arts Feature by J. C. Shakespeare

When Sitcom Sincerity Attacks

Another 'Very Special' Episode at the Alamo

"...and the Very Special Episode. The last was a sitcom staple, when the half-hour would make a hard right..."

Feb. 11, 2011 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

ATX Television Fest: Structure of a Sitcom... and the Rise of Anti-Sitcoms

Comedy magic with Dan Harmon, Paul Scheer, and more

"...the panelists participating in Friday afternoon’s Structure of a Sitcom... and the Rise of Anti-Sitcoms session falls firmly in..."

June 8, 2013 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Robin Williams and Michael J. Fox: Thursday Night Sitcom Showdown

Two old-school comedians go different ways with new sitcoms

"...These new sitcoms do not divert in my mind as a matter..."

Oct. 17, 2013 Screens Post by Aleksander Chan

Austin-Made Sitcom Wind Ups Breaks Out of the Toy Box Tonight

Pilot filmed in and inspired by Toy Joy premieres tonight

Nov. 15, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Longhorn Football Season Is a Sitcom in the Making

Watching tape, both football and funny

"...week watching tape. My TiVo was chock-full of new sitcoms to evaluate. Let’s put them to the tape and..."

Oct. 9, 2009 Sports Post by Joe O'Connell

Somewhere in Queens

Sitcom royalty underdelivers with a stack of Italian American stereotypes

"...upon realizing that this is the directorial debut of sitcom royalty Ray Romano, who wrote it with Scrubs veteran..."

April 21, 2023 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Yoo-Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg

Gertrude Berg, the woman behind the radio and TV icon Molly Goldberg, is profiled in this documentary.

"...but the American situation comedy, particularly the American matriarchal sitcom, owes its very existence to a short, rotund Jewish..."

Oct. 2, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

'Disenchanted' Enchants

Austin-based Ren faire sitcom is just as funny as it sounds like it should be

"...the idea for taking the success of a workplace sitcom and transplanting it to ye olde Renaissance faire, blending..."

Oct. 18, 2013 Screens Feature by Monica Riese

Love Stinks

"...of whiny male anxiety that's as funny as a sitcom but longer and more expensive. The story follows Seth..."

Sept. 10, 1999 Movie Review by Sarah Hepola

Ground Floor Theatre’s Unexpected Joy

Sitcom sheen overwhelms this musical’s stage pleasures

"...episode of a promising but quickly canceled 1970s TV sitcom. The dialogue is shallow and larded with punchlines and..."

Dec. 10, 2021 Arts Feature by Bob Abelman

A Genuine and Enjoyable Conversation Between Kenan Thompson & Chance the Rapper

SXSW Online summit between an Emmy Award-sharing pair

"...Live as its longest-running cast member, he debuted NBC sitcom Kenan last month. He and Chance the Rapper discussed..."

March 17, 2021 Music Post by Derek Udensi

Honey Boy

Shia LaBeouf's autobiography is more than a therapy session

"...(Jupe) with exemplary comedy timing, holding down a TV sitcom...."

Nov. 22, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Late Night

Emma Thompson and Mindy Kaling spark and bond in this timely and charming media satire

"...Longtime TV sitcom director Nisha Ganatra (Chutney Popcorn) leans into the situational..."

June 7, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Scrubs

Finding real-life parallels in the hospital sitcom’s mentor-student relationship

"...Medical sitcom Scrubs (available on Hulu) debuted Oct. 2, 2001, when..."

June 2, 2017 Screens Column by Richard Whittaker

The Comedian

De Niro plays an aging insult comic

"...the blue-collar character he played in a hit Eighties-era sitcom called Eddie’s Home. (Fans are constantly calling him Eddie,..."

Feb. 3, 2017 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Mother's Day

The movie is a moneymaking contrivance, just like the holiday itself

"...blooper reel at the end of the film.) The sitcom-like pace crams a couple jokes into every scene before..."

April 29, 2016 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Bridge of Spies

Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks revisit the Cold War

"...off-track in the sappy ending reminiscent of a Fifties sitcom’s notions of hierarchy within the American family. Given the..."

Oct. 16, 2015 Movie Review by Steve Davis

The Guilt Trip

Barbra Streisand and Seth Rogen are a mother and son on a road trip but the humor's mostly on autopilot.

"...of time, but it is little more than a sitcom-lite diversion...."

Dec. 21, 2012 Movie Review by Louis Black

Monte Carlo

Cute-as-a-button Selena Gomez stars in this tweener mistaken-identity comedy.

"...lately been shifting her attention away from the tweener sitcom Wizards of Waverly Place, where she cut her teeth,..."

July 8, 2011 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Life as We Know It

It's Two Singletons and a Baby, starring Katherine Heigl and Josh Duhamel.

"...Alexis Clagett, Brynn Clagett and Brooke Clagett. With its sitcom-ready premise and its engaging and attractive leads, Life as..."

Oct. 8, 2010 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Back-up Plan

Jennifer Lopez is back with a new romantic comedy about a woman whose biological clock is out of sync with her life.

"...Christian Olsen, Anthony Anderson and Noureen DeWulf. Part unfunny sitcom, part post-Gigli career resurrection strategy, and all bad, The..."

April 23, 2010 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Hancock

Will Smith is the titular Hancock, a character as befuddling as the odd movie that surrounds him.

"...patently dull outcome and yawny midsection, makes Smith's 1990 sitcom breakthrough, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, look positively transgressive..."

July 4, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Dan in Real Life

What passes for real life in this Steve Carell film is as genially inoffensive and predictable as the average TV sitcom.

"...as genially inoffensive and predictable as the average TV sitcom. Audiences are sure to reward Dan in Real Life..."

Oct. 26, 2007 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Simpsons Movie

The film delivers familiar hilarity and some treats you’ll never get on the show (nudity and drunkenness) but steers shy of anything bold and new.

"...guest stars, and writers to emerge as the longest-running sitcom (animated or live-action) in the United States. We love..."

Aug. 3, 2007 Movie Review by Toddy Burton

The Valet

This flat French farce has a couple of likable characters, one or two decent jokes, and a lot of missed opportunities.

"...antics. Shot with the creative energy of a mediocre sitcom, the scenes play out predictable plot devices with minimal..."

May 18, 2007 Movie Review by Toddy Burton

Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World

Albert Brooks again sallies forth where others fear to tread, although his comic results are more mildly amusing than riotously funny.

"...occasional smart gefilte fish-out-of-water gag (Al-Jazeera offers him a sitcom titled That Darn Jew!), but for all its presumed..."

Jan. 20, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

In Good Company

In Good Company is a sincere but serviceable-at-best dramedy from Paul Weitz, one-half of the fraternal team that has already brought us two studies about the human male: American Pie and About a Boy.

"...returns), Weitz introduces a subplot that feels like a sitcom stunt – Carter on the sly starts to date..."

Jan. 14, 2005 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Welcome to Mooseport

Ray Romano, Gene Hackman, Maura Tierney, and Marcia Gay Harden search in vain for a laughtrack in Mooseport, Maine.

"...sparks of subtlety, Welcome to Mooseport plays like a sitcom in search of a laugh track. Jokes fall with..."

Feb. 20, 2004 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star

There’s something about the smarmy David Spade that brings out the worst impulses in a person.

"...Spade plays a what-ever-happened-to TV actor from a Seventies sitcom whose 15 minutes of fame came and went during..."

Sept. 5, 2003 Movie Review by Steve Davis

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