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Displaying all articles tagged:
Tv Funhouse
from the archives
Nov. 5, 2018
Looking Back at Robert Smigel’s
Saturday TV Funhouse
Pilot
Featuring a young Stephen Colbert as Grimy the Talking Outhouse.
By
Ramsey Ess
Aug. 30, 2013
A Look Back at the Filmmakers and Short Films of ‘Saturday Night Live’
The Paley Center for Media, which has locations in both New York and LA, dedicates itself to the preservation of television and radio history. […]
By
Ramsey Ess
Oct. 22, 2012
C.K. and ‘SNL’: Louie’s 19-Year Backstory with the NBC Sketch Show
NBC just announced that Louis C.K. will be hosting Saturday Night Live on November 3rd. It’ll mark C.K.’s first appearance on the long-running […]
By
Bradford Evans
snl
Jan. 4, 2012
Watch a Shelved, Controversial
SNL
Cartoon From 1998
Twelve years ago,
SNL
ended up shelving this cartoon about media monopolies.
By
Eliot Glazer
Jan. 3, 2012
Watch the Media-Conspiracy TV Funhouse Segment SNL Banned in 1998
Marc Maron just Tweeted the link to this video, a Robert Smigel-written TV Funhouse segment in which the educational program Conspiracy Theory […]
By
Hallie Cantor