And to think it only took another thirty-one years. Spider-Man is having another encounter with the folks at Saturday Night Live — only this time, cast members of SNL are writing the adventures instead of appearing in it, as they did waaaay back when in Marvel Team-Up #74, back in 1978. Noted comics fans Bill…
The first one-sheet for Land of the Lost was posted over at Cinematical, The live-action feature, based on the 1974-1976 NBC Saturday morning series, gets the big screen treatment. The film stars Will Ferrell (Talladega Nights), Danny McBride (Underworld), Anna Friel (Pushing Daisies), and Jorma Taccone (Saturday Night Live). It’s being directed by Brad Silberling…
It looks like Stan Lee’s next collaboration in comics will be one with a Far East flavor – we’ve got the story, plus — Jonathan Hickman’s Pax Romana is now free and online — Family Guy spins off Cleveland — The folks at Cannes will see Indiana Jones first — And yes, a brand new…
You couldn’t really make a live-action version of Beavis and Butthead… Could you? Well, we’re just happy one of the cartoons made by Beavis and Butthead creator Mike Judge was able to be developed into a live-action film. Office Space, which was released today in 1999, was based on an animated series Judge created for…
Today in 1992, the Saturday Night Live spin-off film Wayne’s World premiered, making Valentine’s Day that much more… romantic? A-sphincter-says-what? The film starred starred Mike Myers and Dana Carvey, reprising their roles from the SNL sketches that spawned the film. If nothing else, Wayne’s World gave hope to basement dwellers everywhere who hoped to someday…
It’s the Saturday before Christmas, and this is a comic book site, so we’re obligated to show this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2nsRjNITyU
Thirty-two years ago, at 11:30 PM Eastern Time, the National Broadcasting Company aired this live: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bG4ScgDwKk …and with that, a revolution was born. NBC’s Saturday Night premiered with George Carlin as the host, Janis Ian and Billy Preston as musical guests, Jim Henson’s Muppets, and Not Ready For Prime Time Players Dan Aykroyd, John Belushi,…
There are ways of getting ComicMix E-I-C Mike Gold to do what you want. Most of them involve barbeque. It has to be good barbeque, mind you, and we’re talking beef rather than pork. Smoky brisket, a sharp sauce, maybe some hushpuppies (forget the cole slaw), fries, and a coke – get these into him…
“Dying is easy. Comedy is hard.” That deathbed sentiment, most often attributed to either actor Edmund Kean or actor/director Sir Donald Wolfit, was much on my mind as I enjoyed this week’s offerings. Actual dying, as well as the comic derivative (in which a stand-up delivers his routine to an unamused audience), has long been…
I realize the whole concept of a public apology has become somewhat tainted, but I hope Mr. Shatner and Mr. O’Neil each accept mine in the spirit in which they are intended. When the first episode of Star Trek was aired, I thought the show was rather lame. I had just turned 16 and I…
Have you ever seen a Venn diagram? Here’s an example: John Venn first published these diagrams in 1880, although similar diagrams were used up to a century earlier. In the above example, the adjectives “happy,” “short” and “male” all intersect in the middle, with overlaps also occurring between happy short females and sad short males…
