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Nov 26, 2025
How many times has Ryan Coogler seen the Rocky movies? By now he’s lost count.
When he was growing up in the East Bay in California in the 1990s, his father, Ira,...
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Oct 22, 2025
There’s nothing more insufferable to Jim Downey than a writer talking about his own writing. Especially when that writer is him. So when NBC asked him to participate in a...
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Aug 1, 2025
On December 2, 1988, the day after Akiva Schaffer’s 11th birthday, The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! hit multiplexes. For the elementary school kid, watching the...
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Jul 25, 2025
Adam Sandler wanted to surprise him. It was a year ago, and Christopher McDonald was visiting the comedian backstage at a show filmed for his latest stand-up special....
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May 2, 2025
Danny McBride’s characters are, with a few exceptions, magnetically terrible. Over the past 20 years, he’s written himself a collection of profane, overconfident,...
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Mar 14, 2025
Pop culture has no shortage of memorable bowlers. Fred Flintstone. Homer Simpson. “Big” Ernie McCracken. The Dude. But no one on earth, imagined or real, has rolled quite...
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Jan 17, 2025
Long before they had their own television show, Tim Robinson and Sam Richardson had each other. After they met at Second City Detroit in the early 2000s, the two hometown boys...