Subject: Sitcoms

• Bombs Away

  Jake Johannsen

  August 3, 2000

• Live TV

  April 6, 1995

• Tube Message

  June 4, 1998

• Feeling Hot, Hot, Hot

  December 17, 1998

• Ho, Ho, Ho

  February 11, 1999

• Houston, Humor Hotbed

  Houston Comedy Festival

  September 2, 1999

• Good Cop, Bad Cop

  Denis Leary is on The Job, but can ABC find him an audience?

  March 8, 2001

• Wayne Brady

  Actor/Comedian/Singer fronts Houston Symphony

  October 9, 2008

• Capsule Stage Reviews: Christmas Tree-O, Diva, Over the River and Through the Woods

  November 29, 2007

• Diva

  November 15, 2007

• Don't Knock Her

  January 5, 2006

• Reep the Rewards

  April 20, 2006

• John DiResta

  This NY comic’s got two TV shows and lots of shtick

  July 19, 2007

• One Monkey Don't Stop No Show

  This show's like Archie Bunker's comfortable, ratty lounger

  July 5, 2007

• DVDs

  March 15, 2007

• The Essence of Gordon Chambers

  From journalist to songwriter to singer

  February 15, 2007

• Idol Chatter

  Opening day for America's fourth national sport is upon us

  January 18, 2007

• Who Is Chapulín?

  December 7, 2006

• Not Neighborly

  If Barbra's Wedding were a sitcom, it just might work

  November 16, 2006

• These Dogs Still Hunt

  October 26, 2006

• Dark Star Rising

  Jenny Lewis primps for her big push

  October 19, 2006

• Shut Up, Already

  August 3, 2006

• Embarrassment of Riches

  May 4, 2006

• Oh, Grow Up

  Failure is McConaughey's perfect movie, and a pretty good one for us

  March 9, 2006

• Baby Steps

  Two actors bring a sorrowful script to painful, moving life

  February 16, 2006

• Humor Can Be Funny

  Or so believe the Comedians of Comedy

  April 14, 2005

• The Edge of Treason

  Bridget Jones is betrayed by a dumb, dull sequel

  November 11, 2004

• A Glimpse of Stocking

  Old-fashioned shocks abound in Fallen Angels

  February 12, 2004

• Fitz's Flick

  Sara Fitzgerald commits her 25 years behind bars to celluloid

  May 22, 2003

• That '60s Show

  Oliver Beene goes against fake millionaires and phony idols

  March 6, 2003

• Your New Friends?

  NBC hopes Coupling is its next hitcom, which bugs the show's biggest fans

  January 30, 2003

• Year of the Hyena

  January 2, 2003

• Fear Factor

  But just think, no one hates TV more than Trent Lott

  December 26, 2002

• The Shannon Brothers Family Christmas

  Thursday, December 19 through Sunday, December 23

  December 19, 2002

• Another Summer Rerun

  The Ensemble leaves its audience reaching for the remote

  June 27, 2002

• It Happens

  Ohmigod! Five seasons in, South Park's the funniest show on TV.

  July 26, 2001

• Hi, Bob!

  Bob's back

  October 5, 2000

• Fun with Rednecks

  Bill Engvall

  March 23, 2000

• Urban Comedian

  Anthony Clark at the Laff Stop

  August 12, 1999

• Sitcom Survivor

  Margaret Cho

  July 22, 1999

• Reel Time

  EDtv tries to upstage Truman on TV's impact

  March 25, 1999

• Fat Husband, Cute Wife. What's Up With That?

  I guess it started with The Honeymooners. You know, sitcom family equals fat husband, cute wife.  According to Jim. King of Queens. Grounded for Life. Still Standing. Hell, even The Simpsons. And the list goes on. What do they have in common? All star a sitcom husband who is fat and schlumpy and gross and whose wife is thin, cute, and oh-so-patient with her schlumpadump hubby.So what's up with that?Slate contributor Matt Feeney once pondered this paradox, writing, "Since these pairings coul

  April 30, 2009

• Move Over, Reba: Michael Strahan's New Sitcom Also Set In Houston

  Photo courtesy FoxFox Network just announced its fall schedule, and in just under the wire is Brothers, a low-key comedy set in Houston starring former Westbury and TSU star and future NFL Hall of Famer Michael Strahan. The Hollywood Reporter claims Brothers received strong feedback during the pilot's test-viewings last week, and that Fox has signed for 13 episodes.Reading the show's program line, it's kind of hard to see why. Gap-toothed behemoth Strahan essentially plays himself -- a recently

  May 18, 2009

• Perverts, Beware

  May 28, 2009

• Man to Man

  July 30, 2009

• Anneliese van der Pol In Meet Me in St. Louis And The Runaway House

  Photo courtesy of Theatre Under The Stars, photo by Bruce Bennett Photography​Anneliese van der Pol was a big star on You're So Raven. If, unlike my teenage daughter but like me, you never watched that particular Disney Channel TV sitcom, the news is something of a so-what. Stage musicals and plays love to bring in names from TV or the movies as a draw to build audience.However, van der Pol's bonafides look better the further you look in her resume. The Dutch-American grew up in community thea

  October 2, 2009

• The Week In TV: Seriously. You Need to Watch Community

  I know you think the only event of note last week in TV Land was the sad departure of Tom DeLay from Dancing With the Stars. But Dazzle Me Dreamy's punk out was only the beginning. NBC canceled Southland, which is officially the first victim of uber-hack Jay Leno's primetime talk show. Granted, the cop show wasn't stellar, but it was consistently good; it was basically The Wire: Lite with prettier and whiter people. But it had solid stories, and more importantly, it was the kind of quasi-su

  October 12, 2009

• TV Land: 30 Rock Is Back! And Some Other Stuff Happened Too

  It was a long week in TV Land, so let's get some Cheesy Blasters and do it to it: • 30 Rock is back! 30 Rock is back! I know that some of you -- most of you? -- probably thought that Texas' victory was the best thing on TV this week, but that's because you're young and don't know much yet. Trust me: Skillful works of art will outlast the games, no matter their glories. Because seriously, 30 Rock is the new Arrested Development, and its fourth-season opener was jammed with quick jokes, great

  October 19, 2009

• The Week In TV: The World Series Ruins Everything

  Parks and Recreation, yet another reason to love NBC​The weather is cool, Halloween is in the air, and I just redesigned the Pontiac Aztec. This is the week in TV Land: • For being a weak network overall and the home to some truly awful medical dramas, NBC can bring the funny. This week it handed down full-season pickups for Parks and Recreation and Community, both solid shows that have been holding fairly steady in the ratings while also being, you know, entertaining. This week's Comm

  October 26, 2009

• This Week In TV: Miracle Cures From Alien Civilizations

  The Yankees won, Doug Hoffman lost, and I'm thinking of joining a neighborhood dad garage band. This was the week in TV Land: • 30 Rock continues to be the quickest comedy on the air and the spiritual descendant of Arrested Development. This week's episode was stuffed with more meta-jokes than ever, including Liz and Pete's multiple looks into the camera, Jack's dismissal of the Olympics as pointless just before plugging NBC's impending coverage, and the hilarious use of Cisco Systems tagline

  November 9, 2009