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  • Music: Interview:Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner

    11/30/09 Carl Reiner would entertain friends at parties by pretending to interview a character he'd throw at Mel Brooks , who would immediately adopt the persona—a guy at a coffee shop, a famous film director, a submarine captain.  |  The A.V. Club
  • Which Actor Spends Most of His Nights in the Guest Room?

    11/02/09 "This actor has dozens of TV shows and films to his credit. You would think that all that work would have made him the consummate professional. Not really. Instead, it's turned him into a know-it-all about the role of everyone around him. He is constantly interrupting the director and the other actors with tips about how they can make their scene better. Everyone around him gets annoyed, but he is such a big star, they know that it's usually easier to simply accommodate his wishes than to battle him on set.  |  Defamer
  • Comedy: Interview:Gallagher’s gourd and the fury

    10/11/09 Gallagher 's reputation as a watermelon- and cottage cheese-smashing comedian was forged in the '80s on the strength of his cable specials and highly interactive performances.  |  The A.V. Club
  • 'M-A-S-H' writer Larry Gelbart dies

    09/11/09 Larry Gelbart, the award-winning writer whose sly, sardonic wit helped create such hits as Broadway's "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum," the films "Tootsie" and "Oh, God!" and television's "M-A-S-H," is dead.  |  JAM! Showbiz
  • Thesps on eponymous shows actually act

    08/19/09 Sarah Silverman loves to audition for projects, if for no other reason than to show people she's not like the character she plays on her Comedy Central television show.  |  Variety
  • A Match Game fan remembers Fred Travalena

    06/29/09 The sad news just keeps on coming: comedian and impressionist Fred Travalena passed away yesterday , losing a battle with cancer at the age of 66.  |  TV Squad
  • Quaids' Twins Settle With Hosptial

    06/19/09 Moviefone In this photo released by Harpo Productions, Inc., talk-show host Oprah Winfrey interviews actor Dennis Quaid during a taping of "The Oprah Winfrey Show" in Chicago on Feb. 19, 2009.  |  Popeater Movies
  • The Wolberg Family (La Famille Wolberg)

    05/20/09 If happiness consists of "having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city," as George Burns once opined, then the paterfamilias of "The Wolberg Family" needs to move somewhere else pronto.  |  Variety