Jason Tabrys

Andy Samberg And Neil Campbell Talk ‘Digman!’ And Not Holding Back With Their Indiana Jones-esque World

The voice may well sound familiar, recalling Andy Samberg’s Nic Cage impression from SNL, but Digman! (which debuts tonight on Comedy Central) is not “The Nic Cage Show” or any kind of unofficial version of that. If you watch the show for more than 2…

Al Franken Talks About His Week Hosting ‘The Daily Show’ And The Leaked Fox News Texts

The Daily Show is in a fascinating place right now, grabbing headlines and attention with splashy guest hosts and the fresh energy that they bring in a sort of audition process that keeps making a case that maybe it should never end. After all,…

Matthew Rhys On Reinventing ‘Perry Mason’ Again, ‘Cocaine Bear,’ And Saying Yes To Adventure

It’s been almost three years since we last checked in on Perry Mason (season 2 premieres tonight on HBO at 9pm EST) and nearly as long since Matthew Rhys‘ face was on our screens if you don’t count his oh-so-brief hello at the start of Cocaine Bear.…

Jon Stewart Mopped The Floor With A Pro-Gun Politician During ‘The Problem With’ On Apple TV+

Remember in Jurassic Park when they put the goat in the pen with the T-Rex? I don’t know that Oklahoma State Senator Nathan Dahm (R) is getting enough out of his decision to try and match wits with Jon Stewart in the above segment on gun control from…

Bomani Jones Talks Jake Paul, Kyrie, And Turning ‘Game Theory’ Into An Institution

Bomani Jones isn’t into poses. Earlier this week, he told us that being disingenuous in front of your audience actually offends him. With HBO’s Game Theory (back tonight on HBO at 11 following a brief hiatus), Jones is here to consider the…

In Which We Try To Make The News About ‘Succession’ Ending Make Sense

I get it, the news is hard to take. But it’s easy to forgive a show like Succession for ending on high if you accept that nothing is promised, especially an endless supply of great television. Actors and writers leave, storylines repeat or get…

Adam Scott On Bringing ‘Party Down’ Back And Keeping ‘Severance’ Secrets

How do you mark the passage of a dozen years with a reboot/relaunch when part of the original’s charm is in how the characters were seemingly stuck in their nowhere jobs nursing fading aspirations while just trying to get by? That was the main…

In Which We Get Philosophical With Billy Crudup About ‘Hello Tomorrow’

Billy Crudup believes in what he’s selling. In this case, it’s a new show (Hello Tomorrow!, which just premiered on Apple TV+) about a traveling salesman wrestling with regret while hawking lunar timeshares. This guy, Jack, is a merchant of hope for…

Marc Maron On Laughing Through Grief In His New HBO Comedy Special

There’s a moment that I keep coming back to from this interview with Marc Maron where he’s talking about a joke in his new HBO special (From Bleak To Dark, which premieres tonight at 10PM) and how it moves from being devastating to something that…

‘The Last Of Us’ May Have Just Delivered The Last Great Pandemic Love Story

I can’t pinpoint the turn, but at some point, “Hollywood” stopped telling pandemic stories; no more talking through masks about a shared experience that was rapidly splintering. Film and TV are a mirror of the real world, of course. The Last Of Us is…

The ‘GoldenEye 007’ Port Took Too Long To Get Here, But It Can Still Be Fun In Small Bursts

Forgive me for going the long way round while describing the experience of playing the new GoldenEye 007 port on Switch and XBOX, but do you remember the ending of Interstellar? This is going to be a spoiler for that 2014 film, so come on back at the…

Rian Johnson Wants ‘Poker Face’ To Be A Good Mystery And A Great Hang

Though he’s dedicated to the New York Times crossword and an avid puzzle creator when it comes to the Benoit Blanc mystery films (Knives Out and Glass Onion), writer/director/producer Rian Johnson is less concerned with twisty tricks and shocking…

The Best Jewish-Themed ‘Saturday Night Live’ Sketches, Ranked

8 nights, approximately 1 Hallmark movie, and about 5% of the retail floor space compared to the abundance of Christmas decor at your local TJ Maxx. That’s what Jewish people get for the holidays. I’m not kvetching, I’m just saying, would it kill…

The Best Television Shows Of 2022

The year is coming to a close and there are two pretty important takeaways from the world of television: One, there are a lot of shows on a lot of services and channels, to the degree that it’s almost impossible to keep up with everything everyone…

Tom Lennon On The ‘Reno 911!’ Holiday Special, Dildo Stores, And Getting Distracted By Robin Williams

Tis the season for using the word tis a lot and also trying to feel something by watching endless holiday movies and specials, be they ones that feature talking trees, claymation squirrels, or saccharine sweet meet-cutes. But hark, the herald Terry…

Kumail Nanjiani On Finding The Devil In The Details With ‘Welcome To Chippendales’

There are some true life stories that are destined to be told as movies or TV shows. Certain elements that feed into our shared obsessions with sex, glamour, broken dreams, and what they can do to people when desperation sets in and moral barriers…

Jessie Ennis Tells Us About ‘Mythic Quest’ And The Evolution Of Jo

As we begin season 3 of Mythic Quest (with the first two episodes now live on Apple TV+ followed by a weekly rollout), the show’s writers and actress Jessie Ennis have created quite the challenge for themselves. Ennis’ character, Jo, is quite…

Chris Redd On His Revealing Stand-Up Special, Kanye, And Why The Time Was Right For Him To Leave ‘SNL’

There’s noise and then there’s substance. Chris Redd is in front of me on a Zoom call, stitched up after getting attacked last week outside n NYC comedy club, and ready to talk about what he calls his baby, his freshly released HBO Max hour-long…

‘Blockbuster’ Star Randall Park On Video Store Nostalgia And The Iconic Film He Hasn’t Seen

The thing about Blockbuster (which just premiered with all episodes available on Netflix) is that the name, nostalgia, and bitter irony of it running on Netflix eventually fades, replaced by a different kind of wistfulness for a time of goofing off…

Jordan Klepper Isn’t Here To Make Us Feel Better About The State Of Democracy

It’s easy to feel a small amount of smug superiority over how batshit some of the folks are that Jordan Klepper talks with in his regular forays outside various MAGA rallies and hootnannies for The Daily Show and specials like tonight’s Jordan…