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• "More fun than a barrel of monkeys." Has anyone ever stopped to think how cranky, if not downright vicious, a barrelful of…
• In the realm of pop celebrity, the bar has been lowered so far that there is no bar. People can be famous…
• You don't hear TV cops griping because they have to enforce some Draconian law that shouldn't be on the books in the…
• Television's escapist programming naturally continues to endorse living beyond one's means as the time-tested American Way and rarely depicts families or individuals…
• The perils of credit and debt, especially perilous in the computer age, have long been acknowledged in pop culture, but very infrequently…
• Obviously neither 'American Idol' nor 'Dancing With the Stars' is a variety show in the classic sense, but the way they incorporate…
• People of a certain age look back on the Mayberry of 'The Andy Griffith Show' and become almost as homesick for that…
• The once inviolate frame within which programs or commercials were displayed on television - always separately - has been violated to a…
• A fellow with the inventiveness of Albert Einstein but with the attention span of Daffy Duck.
• Jimmy Kimmel still comes across like a guy who crashed a party and got caught at it, yet adamantly refuses to leave.
• In the best traditions of American comedy, from its beginnings through the crash-bang comedies of the 1990s and 2000s, Leslie Nielsen skewered…
• In the 500-channel universe, which may, of course, contain many more channels than 500, the fun never stops - fun at such…

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