October 25, 2016
As it turns out, this piece is not an essay about the least comical of the Marx brothers, but a roundabout way of introducing the main […]
October 18, 2016
As we should expect, the steadily looming election of 2016 dominated John Oliver’s most recent edition of Last Week Tonight and will probably continue to do […]
October 13, 2016
This week, rather than take more time, but end up behind the curve, as the show did after the first Presidential debate, Samantha Bee went on the […]
October 7, 2016
I will grant you that Vice-Presidential debates are not the stuff of which newsflashes are made, and the one between Tim Kaine and Mike Pence, while […]
October 4, 2016
In my most recent past article about John Oliver’s show, Last Week Tonight, which featured his return from Snarkfest ’16, or wherever he went to […]
September 30, 2016
As in the Mother Goose rhyme, right? Here is the deal: rather than go with Samantha Bee’s usual three-part rant, before the first Presidential debate, or […]
September 22, 2016
Your supposedly mature narrator likes to think he is above the lowly craft of the pun, but sometimes, when opportunities arise like the one on the […]
September 15, 2016
Those of us who have been following NBC’s summer replacement show, Better Late Than Never, already knew that the most recent episode, broadcast September 13th, was […]
September 13, 2016
By that, of course, I meant Bee, as in Samantha. What did you think I meant? Having been, of necessity, mute for all this time since […]
September 10, 2016
Before we get into this questionable exercise of your cognitive abilities, I should admit that, like our friend in the sky with diamonds, I got some […]
September 8, 2016
Yes, our four adventurous gringos paid a visit to the sunny south, but of Korea. For some reason, the Yankee version of the K-word was off […]
September 1, 2016
Last week, those of us who watched it were treated to the spectacle of four aging Yankee Doodle dandys turned loose in Tokyo, as the first […]
August 25, 2016
NBC’s New Idea: Maybe Later is Better Let me begin this article by laying out my credentials as a skeptic. I never cared for Star Trek. […]
August 23, 2016
Before I get into the most recent broadcast of Last Week Tonight, your narrator needs to apologize for a minor, but double, error he made in […]
August 16, 2016
While it is true the 2016 Olympics were still raging at the time of last night’s Last Week Tonight, host John Oliver must have figured […]
August 8, 2016
Perhaps the most notable feature of the most recent edition of Last Week Tonight was the absence of Donald Trump…or Hillary Clinton, for that matter. […]
August 2, 2016
As we might expect, the main story in the most recent edition of Last Week Tonight was the Democratic National Convention, held this time out in […]
July 26, 2016
Right up front, I apologize for stretching so far for the above bad title pun, but, you know, the flesh is weak. By Notever, of course, […]
July 20, 2016
The RNC is, of course, the Republican National Convention, which will have undergone its first hours before the Full Frontal broadcast of Monday, July 18, […]
June 29, 2016
When you consider the startling nature of the recent news from overseas, it is not surprising that host Samantha Bee decided to open her latest edition […]
June 28, 2016
In his most recent edition of Last Week Tonight, host John Oliver took on the two subjects of the Brexit and doping for the upcoming Rio […]
June 22, 2016
Samantha Bee Goes Three for Three Among the comedic political commentators I follow, I notice they have their good days and their bad days; their brilliant […]
June 20, 2016
The most recent edition of Last Week Tonight got off with a bang, so to speak, as host John Oliver seemed to take on the NRA. […]
June 15, 2016
Last night ABC launched a new sitcom titled Uncle Buck. If that title sounds familiar it is because the late John Candy starred as the title […]
June 15, 2016
Like everybody else in the business of creating comedy, Samantha Bee began her most recent show with a reference to the horrific massacre in Orlando. Unlike […]
June 13, 2016
John Oliver Minds Your Ps and Qs As we would hope he would, John Oliver began this week’s addition of Last Week Tonight with a sincere […]
June 8, 2016
Full Frontal Episode Review: Samantha Bee Cheerfully Bites the Hand The reference in the title of this article, as I am sure most of you know, […]