But one building block of that episode has survived for nearly 50 years: the commercial parody that follows the host’s monologue. Back in October of 1975, George Carlin’s routine about the differences ...

Scorned by critics on its release, in 1999, Alan Rudolph’s Kurt Vonnegut adaptation now emerges as an inspired comic ...

Being funny involves, at basic levels, exaggeration of normal events. But there is nothing left to exaggerate. Traditional ...