Television

Yes, We Have No Bluth Co. Banana Stand

So fly your Arrested Development freak flag at 'I Just Blue Myself'

The Aquabats! Super Show! Nominated for a Daytime Emmy; Christian Jacobs Talks About Being Family Friendly

How goes our favorite skankin', live-action TV superheroes? The last time we saw the Aquabats, they were performing at the Great Park for a 2012 summer season-ender, and there were suspiciously a ton of kids in the audience. (Maybe it has something to do with the first season The Aquabats! Super Sho ... More >>

Five Amazing, Ridiculous Soap Opera Plots

Dish Network Wins $6.4M Judgment Against Little Saigon Satellite Pirate

A federal judge in Orange County has granted summary judgment to Dish Network and imposed a massive fine on a Little Saigon man who operated a satellite piracy business.U.S. District Court Judge James V. Selna ruled this week that Tan Nguyen, the owner of several websites including ftafoall.net and ... More >>

Top Five Comics to Watch in 2013

This year's most promising jokers

Ryan Sickler

Brea Improv

Cooking with Dog, The Best YouTube Cooking Show Ever, Reaches 100 Episodes!

Cooking with Dog (It's not what you think...), arguably the best YouTube cooking show in existence, has reached a milestone. They've just published its 100th episode (Technically, it's not their 100th unique recipe. They're counting a few remastered episode they published while the woman we only kno ... More >>

Dish Network Continues To Chase Accused Little Saigon Satellite Access Code Pirate

If Dish Network officials were wondering how much patience U.S. District Court Judge James V. Selna can show to an accused Little Saigon satellite access code pirate, they got a better glimpse of the answer today: tons.For nearly five months, Tan Nguyen--the onetime owner of a 170,000 member website ... More >>

Dish Network: Little Saigon Satellite Signal Pirate Destroyed Evidence in Federal Case

The Little Saigon website owner accused of running an international satellite piracy operation now faces accusations that he destroyed thousands of records after a federal judge in Orange County ordered him to comply with Dish Network subpoenas.For a recent Moxley Confidential, Vietnamese immigrant& ... More >>

Dog Days of Summer

Discovery Science Center

Alonzo Bodden

Brea Improv

Fans Say the Darndest Things--To 'Simpsons' Creators

​The Simpsons' 500th episode is upon us. As tempted as I am to write about my favorite minor characters, couch gags, and guest stars, I suspect you're getting your fill of bloggers' opinions. Instead, I've collected comments from the show's writers, artists, and crew (past and present) about us, t ... More >>

Gustavo Dudamel Appearing on Sesame Street

​LA Philharmonic's dashing music director Gustavo Dudamel is guesting on PBS' Sesame Street on Monday, Feb. 6 for the first time ever. Dudamel and Elmo are going to play together by "conducting a sheep playing a violin, an octopus playing the drums and a chorus of penguins singing opera."

Poor Muppet to Debut on Sesame Street

​Sesame Street announced that a new, "poverty-stricken Muppet" will talk about hunger struggles on Sesame Street. Named Muppet Lily, her family deals with "food insecurity,"  and will part of a prime-time special with country singer Brad Paisley and his wife Kimberly Williams Paisle ... More >>

Aasif Mandvi, Daily Show Correspondent, Coming to Anaheim to Scoop up CAIR Award

​The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) of Greater Los Angeles, which is based in Anaheim, will bestow its 2011 Courage in Media Award to Indian-British actor and comedian Aasif Hakim Mandviwal.He's better known as Aasif Mandvi, the hilarious correspondent on The Daily Show with Jon Stew ... More >>

Am I Supporting the Mexican Drug Cartels If I Smoke Pot?

[¡Ask a Mexican!] And why don't more Mexis appear on television news talk shows?

Nastasia Townsend of Bad Girls Club New Orleans Continues Fine OC Reality TV Tradition

​"I will gladly go upside a bitch's head if she thinks she wants to try me."-23-year-old Nastasia Townsend, formerly a "shy little girl" from Sacramento before becoming a Huntington Beach blowhard who dreams of owning a strip club, as the end credits roll on tonight's premiere episode of Bad Girls ... More >>

Michael Voltaggio Among Chefs to Appear at OC Fair

Flickr User Erik Anestad​Michael Voltaggio, the brooding champion of Top Chef Season 6, will be one of four celebrity chefs who will talk, and perhaps do a cooking demonstration, at the upcoming OC Fair.

Katharine McPhee

Segerstom Concert Hall

Real Housewives of Orange County Beefing Up Bisexual, Babelicious, Brazilian Booty Quotient?

​RadarOnline.com reports bisexual, "Brazilian Booty" fitness trainer Fernanda Rocha will join The Real Housewives of Orange County cast.And her role will reportedly be "to stir things up."Those who prefer your unreal reality shows shaken, not stirred, consider yourselves warned.

Much Ado About Boobs: Parents Complain About Katy Perry Showing Too Much Skin on Sesame Street

Sesame Street​It had to happen sooner or later: the inevitable Boob Backlash.After the skirmishes and scuffles of the summer, the innocent bystanders of the Boob Wars have risen up, and they've set their sights on their first targets: Katy Perry on Sesame Street.

American Idol Live!

Honda Center

Daily Show Video on Confucius Classroom Up

​We told you here about the Monday night airing of The Daily Show With Jon Stewart segment on the Hacienda La Puente Unified School District's Confucius Classroom (which some have cast as a Red Chinese plot to pollute young American minds).Now, you can feast your eyes on the video. When the fake n ... More >>

The Daily Show Fake News Report on Confucius Classroom Apparently Airs Tonight

​Jay Chen, a member of the Hacienda La Puente Unified School District Board of Education, informs on his Facebook page that The Daily Show With Jon Stewart segment on a district school's controversial Confucius Classroom airs tonight."My Daily Show interview with Aasif re: our Chinese Class is sch ... More >>

Food Network Chef Arrested in Alleged Murder-For-Hire Plot

​LA-based chef Juan-Carlos Cruz, who hosted the cooking show Calorie Commando on the Food Network from 2004-2006, has been arrested and is being held in LA County Jail for allegedly asking homeless men to commit murder.  One of the homeless men went to police, upon which "investigators l ... More >>

The Daily Show Snubs Anti-Commie Chinese Activist Kai Chen

See no Kai Chen.​This post mentioned how cameras from The Daily Show with Jon Stewart were going to be at Thursday night's Hacienda La Puente Unified School District Board of Education meeting, where activists planned to protest a "Confucius Classroom" coming to a middle school.

Team Coco Alert! Conan O'Brien Stage Show Lands in LA

​Conan O'Brien's live comedy/music review, which is aptly titled "Legally Prohibited from Being Funny on Television," lands April 24-25 at Gibson Amphitheatre at Universal City Walk, poignantly close to where the tall drink of redhead taped The Tonight Show before NBC fucked him over.

Comic: Leno's "Tonight Show" Rise Mirrors Nixon's Political Rise

​By the time you read this, the ink may already be dry on a $30 million to $40 million settlement that would allow Conan O'Brien to leave NBC so Jay Leno can reclaim The Tonight Show.Meanwhile, one of the many comedians backing CoCo has compared Leno's late-night TV ascension to the political maki ... More >>

"Consuming Kids" Screening Launches Mothers Against Nickelodeon

​Two Orange-based moms launch The Mothers Against Nickelodeon, which is critical of the cable channel's marketing to children, with a free Chapman University screening Thursday of a film critical of "the commercialization of childhood."

Loni Love

Brea Improv

Network

Bay Theater

Top Chef Masters To Return For Second Season

Bravo TVIt was Restaurant Wars last week in Top Chef: Las Vegas, and finally this season, things got interesting. Now I've never been a fan of Top Chef when the show focuses on the extracurricular antics of the cheftestants -- the head shaving incidents of Season 2 and the hidden-camera canoo ... More >>

Dishney: Disney Profits Drop 26%, Conan O'Brien Laughs

The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien - Disney CutbacksA few weeks ago, the Walt Disney Company reported a 26 percent drop in profits, thanks to a decline at its many theme parks and media networks like ABC and ESPN.  Conan O'Brien, meanwhile, offered his own suggestions on how Disneyland should ... More >>

Top 5 Reasons Why I Like "Top Chef Masters" More Than "Top Chef"

Bravo TV1. They don't live together. The first shots of the show isn't of the cheftestants waking up from bed in their undies, yawning, and brushing their teeth. Another plus of not having them shoved into the same living quarters: No possibility of head shaving incidents, hidden-camera kanoodli ... More >>

Dat Phan

Irvine Improv

Before it Gets Old: Lazytown/Lil Jon Mashup

UPDATE: The original video has disappeared, thanks to "a copyright claim by Lazy Town Entertainment." What, they don't like lines like "grab a dick, it's yours bitch" associated with their kids' show? Bizarre! I put up another (still-extant as of 4:26 p.m. PST on Dec. 4) upload of it, but I doubt th ... More >>

Backyardigans

Backyardigans

No Deal

Robbie Miller thinks inside the box

A Royal Flush

OnDVD: Marie Antoinette

Dopey and Sleepy

In Harry Shearers America, there are more small people

Pop Will Eat Itself

The movies that stopped living and became mixed-up zombies

The Presidents Conservative Critics

Idle Worship

American Idol judge Paula Abdul keeps dancing

Total Recall

Schwarzeneggers business scams

Shock and Awe and Shuck and Jaw

Only 20 Minutes

Joel Beers theater notes

Your Soul in a Thimble

Sledgehammers Valparaiso

The Cutting Board Is Sacred

Everything I ever needed to know about the Japanese I learned watching Iron Chef

Blow Hard

Lewis Black insists hes not a dick

Popera

Dennis Cleveland aint no stinkin Traviata