In 1975, Donald Sutherland unforgettably played Homer Simpson in the splashy big-screen adaptation of Nathaniel West’s The Day of the Locust, but you’re probably familiar with the name for a different reason.
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Y’all young uns don’t realize that Bart Simpson used to be black. Sort of. It was a whole weird thing!
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Celebrate Christmas in Malibu with this excerpt from The Joy of Trash on the mind-meltingly cheesy first season of Baywatch Nights, which manages to be even more ridiculous than the year that followed, which took a bizarre, notorious turn into The X-Files territory.
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Al FINALLY got a chance to parody John Mellencamp’s “Jack and Diane” for a little ditty about a pair of American icons.
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You know who is still great? Conan O’Brien. That’s who.
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Most days I keep terror and desperation at bay, but every once in a while I feel like The Simpsons’ iconic sad sack Gil Gunderson. That is never a good thing.
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The Simpsons' bone-headed response to the Apu controversy offers a fine example of how not to deal with criticism
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Enjoying The Simpsons Decade at Nathan Rabin's Happy Place? Then there's a whole lot more for you to discover!
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Some spookily scarifying news of what lies ahead for Nathan Rabin's Happy Place.
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Jason Zinoman's compulsively readable account of David Letterman's life and career is a worthy tribute to a hero and an asshole, a comic genius and a bit of a bastard.
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