Aziz Ansari

On his return to Austin, the co-creator of Human Giant goes solo in the spotlight

"...up on Scrubs; and a plum role in the sitcom being developed for Amy Poehler by the creative team..."

Dec. 19, 2008 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Sports Night: The Complete Series: 10th Anniversary Edition

Death to the laugh track

"...the way for further adventures in undermining the traditional sitcom (witness Undeclared, Arrested Development, and 30 Rock)...."

Dec. 5, 2008 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

Fantasmaville

Raul Garza's timely drama challenges the change that's brewing in Austin

"...the plot twists, also fosters a strong sense of sitcom in Fantasmaville. For example, Celeste neglects to tell Martin..."

Nov. 14, 2008 Arts Review by Avimaan Syam

Page Two: Proposal Postcards

Proposition 2 and other economic quandaries

"...from the cutting. As he was on a TV sitcom and woken from an eight-season fever-dream, ignoring the many..."

Oct. 24, 2008 Column by Louis Black

TV Eye

The presidential debates are coming, and so are the Emmys

"...Two and a Half Men is a solidly conventional sitcom. I'm tired of Curb. The appeal of Entourage is..."

Sept. 19, 2008 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Point Austin: Meet the Republicans

The Republicans hold their convention while licking their wounds

"...would make a more likely candidate for an oil-field sitcom – Married (in Alaska) With Children. You've got to..."

Sept. 5, 2008 News Column by Michael King

The Taming of the Shrew

City Theatre honors Shrew's fun, wild, lusty world while putting Kate and Petruchio in a burger joint

"...a line for comedic effect and get an easy, sitcom-level laugh at the expense of the line's meaning. And..."

Aug. 8, 2008 Arts Review by Avimaan Syam

Much Ado About Nothing

DC rapper Wale makes a splash

"...About Nothing. Stitched together with dialogue from his favorite sitcom, the opening track leans on that distinctive slap bass..."

Aug. 5, 2008 Music Post by Thomas Fawcett

Days of Future Past

The history of Salvage Vanguard Theater's unlikely sci-fi success, The Intergalactic Nemesis

"...the idea. He suggested that the piece be penned sitcom-style, with a team of writers mapping out the major..."

July 25, 2008 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

How Do You Say 'Ouch' in Caveman Speak?

Cavemen crash, but there's a new hope

"...be hot. On the heels of the disastrous ABC sitcom Cavemen and Roland Emmerich's universally reviled 10,000 B.C. comes..."

June 16, 2008 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

License & Registration: Bon Iver

Bon Iver hits the small screen

"...creative and/or surprising on the latest episode of some sitcom? Drop me a comment, and spread the word...."

May 30, 2008 Music Post by Darcie Stevens

Matt & Ben

Naughty Austin's comedy doesn't provide deep insights into Damon or Affleck, but it's funny, with some darn fine acting

"...to see zinging it to each other on a sitcom. Matt & Ben exists through the specific characterizations of..."

April 4, 2008 Arts Review by Avimaan Syam

The Elements of Virtual Cooking

Video games that offer all the cooking and none of the food

"...Ten years after the savory sitcom simmered down to reruns, the phenomenon of food-related video..."

Feb. 22, 2008 Food Feature by Sofia Resnick

Make It Work

Music to get down with

"...Conroe High School drill team, not the awesome Eighties sitcom starring Rue McClanahan as Blanche Devereaux – I need..."

Feb. 1, 2008 Music Post by Darcie Stevens

TNA Talks

Wrestlers of TNA on life on the road, and how to survive a muscle buster.

"...on the road,” said Cage. “We're not a television sitcom, we're a wrestling show, and it's important to get..."

Jan. 14, 2008 Sports Post by Richard Whittaker

TV Eye

TV Eye shows some love for 2007

"...punch than might be expected from a typical based-in-the-suburbs sitcom. While effortlessly lobbing barbed commentaries on U.S. isolationism, it..."

Jan. 4, 2008 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Top 10 Favorite Arts Events Across The Disciplines (In No Particular Order)

Chronicle Arts writer Wayne Alan Brenner on his favorite arts events in 2007

"...cast with impeccable blocking and timing made this old-school sitcom a laugh-out-loud pleasure...."

Jan. 4, 2008 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Film News

Casting shuffles for Malick's new picture and more

"...the Bell Rings, a series of two- to five-minute sitcom shorts set outside a principal's office and airing on..."

Dec. 28, 2007 Screens Column by Joe O'Connell

Naked City

"...role as coach Graham Lubbock on the megapopular Eighties sitcom Growing Pains. He is also a resident of the..."

Dec. 28, 2007 News Feature

'Growing Pains' 'Star' Hates the Hoops

"...role as coach Graham Lubbock on the megapopular Eighties sitcom Growing Pains. He is also a resident of the..."

Dec. 27, 2007 Sports Post by Mark Fagan

TV Eye

A new special on Starz, titled Anime: Drawing a Revolution, examines the history and historic influence of the Japanese style of animation

"...name for himself in a popular but critically panned sitcom. Now, he's anxious for some respect, and it seems..."

Dec. 14, 2007 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Geek Out!

This set is the perfect gift for that certain someone on your holiday list who likes his shows novelistic and his humor black

"...of big-budget karaoke contests, and the inane one-liners of sitcom drones actually mean something, what does it say that..."

Dec. 14, 2007 Screens Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

The Brady Bunch Incestuous? And Gay?!?

Jan and Marcia. Together. There is a God.

"...and soon-to-be-revealed in Maureen McCormick's tell-all novel about the sitcom, Jan and Marcia (McCormick and Eve Plumb) had a..."

Sept. 29, 2007 Qmmunity Post by Kate Getty

Shirley Jones: Keeping up with the Jones

There's so much more to the stage and screen star than Mama Partridge

"...Jones was leading her Cowsills-like brood in that Seventies sitcom, her career had a lot more to it, such..."

Sept. 21, 2007 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Chewing the Rat

With Patton Oswalt

"...A prolific stage comic and sitcom second banana – he might be syndicated in perpetuity..."

June 29, 2007 Screens Feature by Marrit Ingman

Gun Shy

Austin novelist Ben Rehder writes about the Texas Hill Country with such insightful appreciation that he's come to own the territory

"...a complex cast of quirky characters: a lovely retired sitcom star and her ex-husband, the Pulitzer-winning political cartoonist, saddened..."

June 15, 2007 Books Review by Virginia B. Wood

TV Eye

Tenacious Kiwi

"...Flight of the Conchords. You could call it a sitcom except for one significant difference: It's funny. It could..."

June 15, 2007 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Vince Young - in Loving Tribute

Vince Young catches the Madden curse

"...large mustachioed ass. He was then traded to the sitcom Webster for six seasons where his adopted, black, little-person..."

April 19, 2007 Sports Post by Jeremy Martin

Mambo Italiano

Naughty Austin looks to be "coming out" for a more serious production with the gay "straight" play Mambo Italiano

"...Steve Galluccio, a sitcom writer, wrote a story paralleling his personal experience on..."

March 23, 2007 Arts Review by Patti Hadad

The Trailer Park Boys: Seasons 1 & 2

Alliance Atlantis released the show's collected episodes season by season last year without frills or fanfare, but even without extras, they're worth discovering

"...sassier and more modern cousin, and the name of sitcom genius Norman Lear is alive...."

March 23, 2007 Screens Review by Marrit Ingman

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