Update Feb. 4: Ken Jeong was reportedly “upset” and “felt disrespected” by Rudy Giuliani‘s appearance on The Masked Singer, People reports. A source added that Jeong, who practiced medicine before becoming a comic actor and music competition show judge, was critical of the Trump administration’s handling of the Covid-19 pandemic. …
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John Swartzwelder, the prolific, admired and reclusive comedy writer best known for his work on The Simpsons, spoke about his life and career in his first major interview, published in The New Yorker on Sunday. Swartzwelder worked on The Simpsons between 1989 and 2003, writing 59 episodes, far more than …
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Television, it’s often been said without much exaggeration, was invented to sell soap. And the fall television season was invented to sell cars. As Preston Beckman, a retired network scheduler who presided over the Must-See TV era of NBC and the peak of American Idol at Fox (and now tweets …
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