Controversial SNL Skit Causes Customer Complaints, Sears Pulls Ads

Following customer complaints about Sears' ads being attached to NBC.com and Hulu rebroadcasts of the Feb. 16 episode of Saturday Night Live, Sears has elected to pull those online ads, according to E!   read more

Carrie Brownstein to Write Memoir

Carrie Brownstein—former writer for The Believer, reviewer of video games for Slate and blog writer for NPR—announced she has signed with Riverhead Press to write a memoir on her band Sleater-Kinney, the Olympia, Wash., scene and her life in music.   read more

The 11 Best Sketch Comedies of All Time

As the vitality of sketch comedy moves increasingly online thanks to series like Funny or Die and Between Two Ferns, it’s encouraging that television can still surprise us with a show like Portlandia. In honor of its return for a second season on IFC, here our picks for the 10 best sketch comedy shows of all time.  read more

Watch Danny Pudi of Community Do A Funny Shakespeare Monologue

Danny Pudi of Community fame and Brian McElhaney and Nick Kocher from the sketch group BriTANick attempt to recite the final monologue from Shakepeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Key word: “attempt.”...  read more