April 7, 2017
One of my favorite country music songs is Brad Paisley’s Bigger Fish to Fry. Give it a listen if you care to. What does that have […]
April 6, 2017
In the most recent pair of Trial & Error episodes, the show followed the same pattern as it did in the second week, where the earlier […]
April 3, 2017
Those of you who actually saw the most recent broadcast of Last Week Tonight, please be careful not to roll your eyes over the idiotic title […]
March 30, 2017
In the March 29th edition of Full Frontal, host Samantha Bee subjected us to what your more erudite philosophers call the old switcheroo. In the typical […]
March 29, 2017
Yesterday’s two-episode dose of the new NBC comedy, Trial & Error was, once again, hilarious and served to move the plot along (that is to say, complicate […]
March 24, 2017
Last week, I had the pleasure of reporting that all three of Full Frontal’s segments were excellent—even the feeb segment that comes at the end. After […]
March 22, 2017
Before I get into the nit and the grit of the most recent editions of this bizarre comedy, I must offer my apology for a slight […]
March 21, 2017
That is to say, the show covered everything from A(ngela Merkel) to Z(ebras). It will all make perfect sense if you happened to catch the March […]
March 18, 2017
Spoilage alert: the most recent edition of Full Frontal was excellent, from start to finish. I gave the matter considerable thought and found that I did […]
March 15, 2017
Trial and Error Review: Neither a Trial to Watch nor an Error to Schedule I was interested to see how the NBC replacement show, Trial and […]
March 14, 2017
The one obvious focus for that category is the many and variegated items an enterprise known as Samsung makes for our never-ending pleasure, depending on what […]
March 9, 2017
As followers of Full Frontal surely know, the show that aired last night on March 8th was the first one in awhile, said while including the last […]
March 6, 2017
Let me start this article with the second part and then circle around to the first, so that we can get this Caesar business out of […]
February 28, 2017
That is to say, of the government. I’m sure all of you enlightened or, at the very least, wheelbarrow-trainable readers out there remember the lesson from […]
February 17, 2017
No, I am not trying to conjure up the picture of Full Frontal host Samantha Bee in a track suit or shooting herself up with steroids. […]
February 10, 2017
First, let’s have the spoilers: like last week’s show, the most recent edition of Full Frontal dealt directly or indirectly with Donald Trump. Please try to […]
February 3, 2017
In the states that she lost, most people seem to have voted against Hillary Clinton, rather than for Donald Trump, whose credentials as an idiot-savant they […]
January 27, 2017
Do not be too confused by today’s title. Especially when you factor in that your narrator may be missing two shooters and a purple aggie. The […]
January 19, 2017
“I have come to bury Caesar, not to praise him,” Shakespeare had Roman Senator Marc Antony say in The Merry Wives of Windsor. I note that […]
December 21, 2016
Oddly enough, none of the three segments in the most recent edition of Full Frontal dealt directly with the daughter-in-law-elect* (or the President-elect, for that matter). […]
December 13, 2016
Yes, I know that Full Frontal just came back from an extended rest last week, and did so with an OK show. Now though, it appears […]
December 7, 2016
Fully recovered from her Thanksgiving tryptophan bender (and expecting her viewers to be in a similar state), Full Frontal host Samantha Bee has resumed her spot […]
November 15, 2016
Please keep in mind, that when I say done, I do not mean to imply that the host of Last Week Tonight is headed off to […]
November 11, 2016
As you might suppose, what with your steel-trap mind and uncanny flair for dee-ductive reasoning, this article represents the continuation of an earlier one about the […]
November 8, 2016
For those of you (all of you?) who may be scratching your heads in puzzlement or, possibly dry scalp, I took the title of my piece […]
November 1, 2016
The antecedent for the unspoken pronoun is entertainment. Maybe I am getting slap-happy from the unrelenting absurdity of the present campaign, but I found all three […]
November 1, 2016
A while back, I titled a review of a John Oliver show, “John Oliver Takes Us to School,” since the main topic was charter schools. I’m […]