Television

The Amazing Race Apologizes for Pissing Off Vietnam Veterans and a Token Fox News Liberal

My colleague R. Scott Moxley recently wrote of the shitstorm kicked up after The Amazing Race had contestants visiting Vietnam watch a pro-communist musical show, recite a pro-communist poem and then gather at an anti-American military site in Hanoi. If there was increased interest (and ratings?) ... More >>

The Five Best Beavis and Butthead Music Video Riffings of All Time

Last weekend marked twenty wonderful years since MTV aired the first episode of "Beavis and Butthead." While the duo changed the way the world viewed Generation X, as well as ushered in one of the sharpest satires of the 90s, it also popularized the idea of video "riffing" to a brand new audience. N ... More >>

Lewis Black

Terrace Theater

David Cross Lets It Slip More Arrested Development is Coming Than First Planned

Making a fourth season of Arrested Development, the side-splitting comedy more realer about Orange County than any reality show claiming to depict the real OC, is succeeding because of Netflix, according to Mr. Tobias Fünke himself, David Cross. That's not a reference to the tens of millions of vie ... More >>

Jo Koy

Brea Improv

Get Skin Like a Korean Soap Opera Star

[Trendzilla] BB cream is the miracle balm that gets your skin dewy

Davy Jones, R.I.P.: Five Best Monkees Songs

​Davy Jones, former lead singer of the made-for-TV band the Monkees, died today in a hospital in Florida, apparently of a heart attack. He was 66. The star of the NBC comedy series was born in Manchester, England. The Monkees, partly inspired in part by the Beatles movie A Hard Day's Night, turne ... More >>

Willy Wonka Caps an Unusually Chocolaty Anaheim Weekend

​Anaheim does not make Parliament's "Chocolate City" roll call, but that would be an apt name this weekend for the box that holds Disneyland. "Chocolate: The Event" features three days of sweet-making to pimp "Chocolate: The Exhibition" that's up through Sept. 11 at Muzeo Museum. Capping the festi ... More >>

Firoozeh Dumas Talks About the Death of ABC Sitcom Based on Her Funny in Farsi Memoir

​Firoozeh Dumas wrote Funny in Farsi, which was about her experiences growing up Iranian American in Newport Beach. The hugely popular book earned Dumas the distinction of being the only Iranian American nominated for the Thurber Prize for American Humor. And Funny in Farsi came within an eyelash ... More >>

Actor Wendell Pierce To Play B.B. King in Movie Based on Golden Bear Meeting

​Actor Wendell Pierce will be starring as B.B. King--the "King of Blues"--in an upcoming film, B.B. King and I. It's based on an encounter that aspiring drummer Michael Zanetis had with B.B. King at the back stage of Huntington Beach venue Golden Bear, after which he became lifelong friends with t ... More >>

Local Caterer Featured In Cupcake Wars Hosting Open House Tomorrow

Parties by Panache Facebook page​In December, Gustavo reported on a Brea catering company making it to the championship round in an episode of Food Network's Cupcake Wars. Parties by Panache is their name, and they have used their newfound exposure to expand their offerings. To celebrate, they are ... More >>

The Governator is Back--With a New TV Series

Nate Mandos/Wikimedia Commons​So maybe that whole stint in politics didn't work out quite as well as planned. Former Governator Arnold Schwarzenegger, who's used to reading lines, has decided that his next project will be a TV show. According to The Hollywood Reporter, details of the secret series ... More >>

[UPDATED With Their Performance] Local Natives on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon Tonight!

​UPDATE, 9 A.M. Jan. 6: Watch the band perform "Wide Eyes" from their debut album, Gorilla Manor. You can buy the album here.ORIGINAL POST, 9 A.M. Jan. 4: It's no surprise that Local Natives are starting off 2011 with even more continued success: The originally Orange-County-based band are pe ... More >>

The Antidote to Sandra Lee's Kwanzaa Cake

Behold the antidote to Sandra Lee's infamous Kwanzaa Cake. Watch the video above from my favorite YouTube cooking show Cooking With Dog (scratch that, it's my favorite cooking show on any medium) as a Japanese woman creates a Christmas cake from scratch. She even whips the cream by hand. I repeat ... More >>

Funniest Housewives of Orange County

Irvine Improv

Kathleen Madigan

The Grove

Watch The Real Housewives of Orange County Trainwreck from the Beginning Starting Today

​Bravo will not start airing the sixth season of The Real Housewives of Orange County until January, but you can start watching seasons 1-5 in consecutive order starting today.As part of NBC Universal Domestic Television Distribution's nationwide syndication deal for the Real Housewives franchise, ... More >>

Real Housewives of Orange County Food Quiz Time!

​I don't see The Real Housewives of Orange County because I'm more of a Real Housewives of Atlanta type of guy (and isn't The Real Housewives of D.C. boring as hell?), but I do care for culinary gossip about them. Thus, an email I received from a tipster a couple of days ago:I was at (restaurant) ... More >>

Jack White Releases Conan O'Brien Album and Single!

​How'd we miss this?Last week the Hollywood Reporter said that Conan O'Brien is releasing two albums prior to  launching his new TBS talk show. They actually got it wrong, says our sister pub LA Weekly--Jack White's label, Third Man Records, will actually be "releasing a Conan O'Brien album a ... More >>

Ellen DeGeneres No Longer American Idol Judge

​The much-maligned ​Ellen DeGeneres won't be back as a judge on American Idol after just one season on the show. The LA Times wrote that DeGeneres "told the show's producers a couple of months ago that the show 'didn't feel like the right fit for me,' partly because of increased work commit ... More >>

Four Real Housewives Show You How To Break Into The Music Industry Without Joining American Idol

​Apparently, you don't need to stand in line at an American Idol audition to have a shot at getting a music career started on television. There's another reality show that can do that for you: The Real Housewives series on Bravo has recently become the launching pad for singing cougars. Of cours ... More >>

Natasha Leggero

Irvine Improv

Identical Social Security Cheater Cousins?

​From the Wow, That's Really Random File comes word that the cast of the 1963-66 ABC sitcom The Patty Duke Show is reuniting today so Commissioner of Social Security Michael J. Astrue can discuss his federal agency's campaign "to let America's nearly 80 million baby boomers know about Social Secur ... More >>

Tom Green

Brea Improv

Aaron Boone Retires, Joins ESPN

​Aaron Boone, the former Villa Park High School star and son of the Angels catcher from 1982-88 Bob Boone, today announced he will retire and become an ENPN baseball analyst.

Neil Young to Perform "Fuckin' Up" on Conan O'Brien's "Tonight Show" Finale? He Should!

​This evening Conan O'Brien fans will have one last chance to catch the funny man with the towering hairdo host the Tonight Show. Sure, O'Brien will likely resurface somewhere--the safe bet is Fox--shortly, and with a 45 million exit deal, he won't exactly be standing in the unemployment line in ... More >>

[UPDATED WITH LA TIMES RESPONSE] For Times Reporter, It's Dancing With the Company You Cover

Adam Larkey/ABCDancing With the Stars host Tom Bergeron, Times reporter Dawn C. Chmielewski and her partner Jonathan Roberts soak in applause. ​UPDATED WITH RESPONSE FROM LA TIMES VP . . . Perhaps it does not fully descend into the unethical bog like the revenue-sharing arrangement with the Stapl ... More >>

Orny Adams

Irvine Improv

LATE SLIP: Alex's Bar = Fangtasia in 'True Blood'

​So, apparently everyone else already knew this a year ago, but apparently Alex's Bar in Long Beach is used as the location for "Fangtasia," the vampire bar on HBO drama True Blood, currently in its second season.I just learned this yesterday through a post on The District's site. I posted about i ... More >>

Oh, THAT's Why The Army Fired OC Native Dan Choi

Last night, the Daily Show provided its trademark dose of clarity regarding the case of Lt. Dan Choi, a graduate of Tustin High School and West Point. Choi's an Iraq War veteran and was working for the military as an Arabic translator -- until he announced that he's gay. The ensuing media frenzy has ... More >>

A Family Divided

Seth MacFarlane

Tracy Morgan

Fancy Footwork

So You Think You Can Dance Tour

Steve Carell's 'Get Smart' Redux Is a Rare Device: A TV Remake for the Big Screen That Works

If Anyone Cares About Bowling Or OC Reality Shows

Last night some new fancy schmancy bowling alley called Strike had a grand opening party in Tustin. Yes, bowling alleys are the next thing to hop on the glam wagon. And several reality show stars (or former stars) from The Hills and Real Housewives Of OC showed up because... hell, who knows. He ... More >>

I Want to Believe

Lisa Williams

Panic! DJ Night At The Continental Room

Not panic-inducing at all but rather jovial (and free!), The Continental Room in Fullerton has dubbed Monday nights the place to be for incredibly eclectic DJ showmanship. How eclectic you might ask? A veritable shmorgasborg of music genres that spanned the decades. Like this: - Primus - Data Rock ... More >>

[DVDish] Chafing Dishes: Reviews of No Reservations, I Could Never Be Your Woman, more

Smile Like You Mean It

Miss Teen Newport Beach

Yo Gabba Gabba contract -officially- renewed

Feature writer Shawn Smith has the latest on the psychedelic kiddie show scene: The gamble paid off. Yo Gabba Gabba creators Christian Jacobs and Scott Schultz (our cover boys a few weeks back) got the news they’ve been waiting for. Yo Gabba Gabba, the frenetically fun kids show with the dancing ... More >>

DVDish

WEB EXCLUSIVE! The Kids Were Alright

Long Beach Colbert-o-scam?

On the October 16 episode of Comedy Central's The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, television news anchor and Emmy nominee Stephen Colbert announced that he was "officially considering" whether or not he would announce if he was considering running for President of the United States, and would make that ... More >>

Loretta Taking Her Act to HBO

It's true! According to Dan Chmielewski over at theliberaloc.com blog, Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez (D-Anaheim), is scheduled to appear as a guest on "Real Time With Bill Maher" Friday at 11 p.m. on HBO. Chmielewski wonders how many "pet the cat" jokes humorist Maher will utter. Perhaps not many ... More >>

It's About Time for a Time Lord

Doctor Who

This Week in Shotguns and Shag Hairdos

OnDVD: Police Woman: The First Season

The Knightly News

George Clooney tips his hat to Edward R. Murrow

Thats Our Bush!

The presidents re-election campaign kicks off with a shameless 9-11 docudrama

Barney the Dinosaur? Meet Jan Crouch

KOCE boss Mel Rogers is betting he can kill KOCE to save it

The Tonys!

The DAs enemies list? Its an honor!

Kill Your Idols

But let them play until they embarrass themselves first