This year's White House Correspondents' Dinner gave us a few insights about comedy:
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Last weekend, "Saturday Night Live" posted its best ratings in 14 months when Justin Timberlake acted as host and the musical guest. What do we make of this?
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Well, it's about time that someone got around to try to compete against the all-mighty Fox News Chanel. Fox has been No. 1 in the cable-news ratings since the Magna Carta -- or, at least, it seems that long -- and, amazingly, noo ther conservative-oriented TV operation has tried to follow the leader...
Read More »On conservative morning show "Fox & Friends" yesterday, British journalist and Fox News show host Stuart Varney claimed "Downton Abbey" "poses a threat to the left" because of its positive portrayal of the wealthy. "Rich people are prominently featured, they...
Read More »The 2012-13 television season just finished up its fourth week, and there are clearly two major success stories overall: NBC has been the highest-rated network in 18-49 for four weeks in a row, the first time it's done so in a whole decade, while "The Walking Dead" made history by beco...
Read More »Jon Stewart added a brilliant new word to the vocabulary of media criticism yesterday: firstiness. Looking over the ludicrous flub in which first CNN and then Fox mistakenly reported that the Supreme Court had struck down the essence of the Obama health care plan – instead of, whoops, the...
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