Why ‘Winning Time’ Lost
From personal experience, it’s hard to make a TV show about basketball
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Adam McKay
Something Slightly Less Wonderful, Several Decades Later
A new edition of Jeffrey Sweet’s seminal book on improv doesn’t add much, but the original text still has a lot to offer
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Everything That’s Streaming in March
Content coming in like a lion
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BFG Podcast #037: Norman Mailer, ‘Don’t Look Up,’ and Losing on a Game Show
Our editor and writers break down the culture and losing on a game show
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What We Talk About When We Talk About ‘Don’t Look Up’
Why do viewers like the Adam McKay movie more than critics do?
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Memories of the Jeremy Strong Discourse
The final word on this year’s most controversial celebrity profile
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Don’t Watch This
‘Don’t Look Up,’ a disastrous disaster comedy from Adam McKay
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‘Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga’
It’s not the actual Eurovision, but the song parodies in this mostly affectionate Will Ferrell satire are close enough
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Is the Streaming Going to Run Dry?
And what might fill the program gap
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The Madness of Del Close
Documentary unravels the mystery of the guru of American comedy
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No Safe Spaces for Old Men
Adam Carolla and Dennis Prager’s Free-Speech Warning Shot
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Marty Vs. Marvel
Old-Fogey Hollywood Directors Have Always Hated the Next Wave
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‘The Other Two’: TV’s First Great Millennial Comedy
The Unlikely Heir To ’30 Rock’ Has Emerged
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Pick Me A Winner
The BFG 2019 Oscar Prediction Post–Part One
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Before ‘Vice,’ There Was ‘Viva Villa’
Ben Hecht and the Art of the Takedown Biopic
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