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Thursday Comedy Roundup: Community 3.20-22 & 30 Rock 6.22
18 May 2012 4:02 PM, PDT | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »
Community, Season 3, Episode 20, “Digital Estate Planning”
Written by Matt Warburton
Directed by Adam Davidson
Airs Thursdays at 8pm Et on NBC
“Digital Estate Planning” functions as something of a breather from the four-part “Evil Chang” plotline that closes out the season. At the same time it serves to bring closure to Pierce’s arc, dealing with the aftermath of his father’s death in “Advanced Gay.” Giancarlo Esposito is clever casting as Pierce’s half-brother Gilbert, and his legacy as Gus Fring lends weight to his machinations in the first two-thirds of the episode. A legacy the show’s writers are clearly aware of given how frequently his avatar adjusts his glasses.
The video game conceit may seem gratuitous at first but the quest it sends the group on gives them a reason to work together and show Pierce the true meaning of friendship. It’s likely this display of »
- Justin Wier
30 Rock Recap: The Marriage Plots
18 May 2012 7:12 AM, PDT | Vulture | See recent Vulture news »
Even for a show that revels in pop-culture references, 30 Rock had a lot of them last night. Jack and Avery agree through gritted teeth to watch Downton Abbey. Liz Lemon argues she’s clearly not someone who bails, since she’s still watching Smash. Criss explains that his hot-dog van is named Van Der Beek, since he’s seen everything that guy was in except Dawson’s Creek. The guest stars alone felt like evidence of 30 Rock’s cultural range. What other show would find a way to use Dr. Cornel West and beloved New York news anchor Pat Kiernan in the same half-hour?All season long, 30 Rock has been trying to find a balance between this sort of outward-facing comedy and more inward-facing meta jokes. The former is important because it connects the show to the rest of the world, but the latter is part of 30 Rock’s cult appeal, »
- Izzy Grinspan
'30 Rock' finale: Jack and Avery have marital issues
17 May 2012 7:39 PM, PDT | Zap2It - From Inside the Box | See recent Zap2It - From Inside the Box news »
So many season finales have a wedding as a hook, and it appears that "30 Rock" is not immune from this tried and true feature. But as we've come to expect from the sitcom, they have a little bit of a different take on things.
Here's what we learned on Thursday's (May 17) episode:
[Spoiler alert]
Jack (Alec Baldwin) and Avery (Elizabeth Banks): The two are planning to renew their vows now that she's free from North Korea. But things get complicated when competing interests - Scott (Michael Mosley), Avery's mom Diana (Mary Steenburgen) and Kim Jong Il - each look to have their own reasons for stopping the nuptials. In the end, it appears that Jack and Avery may have the best reasons of all.
Hazel (Kristen Schaal) and Kenneth (Jack McBrayer): Hazel is on the verge of homelessness. So Kenneth, being the caring person that he is, decides to help her out. »
- editorial@zap2it.com
What to Watch: The TVLine-Up for Thursday
17 May 2012 8:40 AM, PDT | TVLine.com | See recent TVLine.com news »
On TV this Thursday: It’s an all-finale edition of What to Watch with Community, Rules of Engagement, Grey’s Anatomy, Person of Interest, Scandal and The Mentalist ending their seasons, Missing bowing for good and Awake heading into its penultimate outing. All in all, here are nine programs to keep on your radar.
8 pm Missing (ABC) | Series finale: Becca faces her own inner demons in a way she never has before in a last ditch effort to save her son; Suspect Zero tries to complete his sale.
8 pm Community (NBC) | The three-part Season 3 finale starts with the 8-bit video »
- Alyse Whitney
Watch: Colbert Spars With Cornel West & Tavis Smiley
20 April 2012 9:11 AM, PDT | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »
Colbert came out swinging in his interview with Cornel West and Tavis Smiley, accusing the two of waging class warfare with their new book, The Rich and The Rest Of Us.
West & Smiley took Colbert's mock outrage in stride, sparring back with him while also making their case for the poor.
In a particularly inspired response to the host's suggestion that the book is a $12 guilt trip for the rich, West shot back, "You've got a whole lot of unemployed people, thank god, who are going to Bruce Springsteen's world tour, The Wrecking Ball... Why? Because he's a white blues brother and understands; he's concerned about the poor, too. If they can get a Bruce Springsteen ticket, they can buy this book."
Check out the full interview above. »
- Carol Hartsell
From Cell to Screen: The Story of Mumia Abu-Jamal, Long Distance Revolutionary
10 March 2012 4:47 PM, PST | The Hollywood Interview | See recent The Hollywood Interview news »
By Alex Simon
"Wrapped in the sweet, false escape of dreams, I hear the unmistakable sounds of meat being beaten by blackjack, of bootfalls, yells, curses; and it merges into the mind's movie-making machine, evoking distant memories of some of the Philadelphia Police Department's greatest hits--on me. "Get off that man, you fat, greasy, racist, redneck pig bitch muthafucka!" My tired eyes snap open; the cracks, thuds, "oofs!" come in all too clear. Damn. No dream. Another dawn, another beating on B-Block, another shackled inmate at Pennsylvania's Huntingdon prison pummeled into the concrete by a squadron of guards." -Mumia Abu-Jamal "B-Block Days & Nightmares"
Stephen Vittoria is that rare commodity in Hollywood today: a filmmaker with a conscience. To be more precise, a filmmaker with a strong political conscience. After making two feature films, Black and White (aka Lou, Pat & Joe D., 1987) and Hollywood Boulevard (1996), as well as »
- The Hollywood Interview.com
'Saturday Night Live' recap: The welcome return of Maya Rudolph... and Amy Poehler... and Justin Timberlake
19 February 2012 1:17 AM, PST | EW.com - PopWatch | See recent EW.com - PopWatch news »
Saturday Night Live fans are a fickle, often divided bunch. You’re typically either of the variety that believes the show’s heyday has long since passed or you’re part of the group that will staunchly defend the current cast and the show itself until the very end. But it’s not as though those two groups can never intersect or see eye-to-eye on the long-running series. In fact, last night’s hysterical and edgy episode of SNL may have been the ultimate unifier: A fusion of greats from the show’s past effortlessly blending with the new.
Much »
- Aly Semigran
Samuel L. Jackson: I Voted For Obama 'Because He Was Black'
12 February 2012 2:27 PM, PST | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »
Samuel L. Jackson made a surprising confession in the March issue of Ebony.
"I voted for Barack because he was black. Cause that’s why other folks vote for other people — because they look like them," Jackson said, according to the New York Post.
He contended that Obama's message wasn't important, since he believes most politicians will say anything to get elected.
"That’s American politics, pure and simple. [Obama’s] message didn’t mean [anything] to me. In the end, he’s a politician. I just hoped he would do some of what he said he was gonna do. I know politicians ... lie cause they want to get elected," he continued, according to TMZ.
The president is banking on African American support for November's election. Earlier this month, he unveiled a new push to court black voters.
"He needs the support of the African-American community in order to continue to bring positive change to our community, »
- The Huffington Post
Tavis Smiley -- Don Cornelius Saved Black Culture
1 February 2012 4:50 PM, PST | TMZ | See recent TMZ news »
Talk show host Tavis Smiley believes "Soul Train" creator Don Cornelius was responsible for saving black culture in the 70s and 80s -- telling TMZ, the late producer was "our cultural ambassador" in that era.Tavis tells us, "Don Cornelius was our cultural ambassador when black music, when black dance, when black fashion were under-appreciated in this country."Tavis adds, "I think that Don Cornelius' real contributions were never really appreciated ... Sometimes, it takes »
- TMZ Staff
Jesse Jackson Enters Grammy Discussion, Considers Protesting Award Show
27 January 2012 4:17 PM, PST | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »
New York — The Rev. Jesse Jackson is entering the fray over The Recording Academy's cuts to its Grammy categories: He's asking to meet with the president of the organization and has raised the possibility of protests with the awards less than two weeks away.
The civil rights activist sent a letter to Neil Portnow, the president and CEO of the Academy, and expressed his dismay over the Academy's decision last April to cut its categories from 109 to 78, the biggest overhaul in its then 53-year history. In the letter, Jackson said he had been talking to members of the entertainment community and asked that his organization, the Rainbow Push Coalition, "meet with you urgently to express our concerns and to see if we might help resolve this conflict ... and allow the Grammys to do what they do best."
In a statement to The Associated Press on Friday, Portnow said he was willing to talk with Jackson. »
- AP
Sean Hannity And Cornel West Go Head To Head Over His Herman Cain ‘Crack Pipe’ Comment
11 January 2012 7:17 PM, PST | Mediaite - TV | See recent Mediaite - TV news »
Princeton professor Cornel West appeared on Fox News' Hannity, his first time since 2006, and was grilled by host Sean Hannity over inflammatory comments he had made on CNN back in October about then-Presidential candidate Herman Cain, where he said "Get off the symbolic crack pipe and acknowledge the evidence is overwhelming”, referring to Cain's dismissal that racism held people back in a significant way. "By symbolic crack pipe, what I meant was he's living in Never Neverland, anybody that downplays the prison industrial complex, when it comes to the way our brown sisters and brothers are treated with immigration policy, when it comes to the glass ceiling still at work even though we have a black president, racism is still real!" »
- James Crugnale
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