Wired scared filmmakers away from Saturday Night Live as subject matter for decades, but multiple films about Lorne Michaels’ comic institution are currently in production.
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In this excerpt from The Joy of Trash we go DEEP into one of the most mortifying moments in pop culture history: the notorious “Your brother is standing in the middle of Afghanistan!” scene from Studio 60 in the Sunset Strip.
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Every aspect of Saturday Night Live’s legendary first season has been mythologized and romanticized, with the notable exception of the notorious Land of Gorch Muppets segments.
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Before there was Saturday Night Live there was Saturday Night Live with Howard Cosell but good luck tracking down any evidence of that notorious flop’s unfortunate existence.
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The Flash didn’t do as poorly as the studio feared; it actually did MUCH worse.
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Charles Schulz spent four years making It’s the Girl in the Red Truck, Charlie Brown, a live-action/animation hybrid starring his own daughter Jill and Snoopy’s unpopular brother Spike. It did not go well.
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The 1969 Laugh In knock off Turn-On has the curious distinction of being the only show in television history to get cancelled halfway through its first episode.
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Did 9/11 sink Emeril Lagasse’s sitcom or did it fail because it was literally the worst idea ever? Read and find out!
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This movie is NOT good.
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For latest installment of Control Nathan and Clint, you had us revisit the first time the Superman franchise went horrifically awry, Richard Lester’s Superman III, a terrible Richard Pryor comedy that’s just barely a superhero movie and comes alive only when Superman is being a raging, super-powered douche bag.
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