Pop Culture Lunch Box

Bridesmaids fits easily into my list of "top 60 funniest movies" of all time, all of which are five-star classics. The thing tha...

In honor of Eddie Murphy’s upcoming Netflix movie Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F, The New York Times makes him this subject of The Interview thi...

Have you ever wondered what high school might be like if everyone said out loud exactly what everyone was thinking?  No? Me neither. But tha...

Kristen Wiig has had a disastrous run since her wildly hilarious days at Saturday Night Live. OK, Bridesmaids is a classic. And granted, sh...

When I was younger, I frequently turned to Woody Allen’s comedy collections Getting Even, Without Feathers, and Side Effects (I haven’t read...

Steve Martin was around 10 when he realized that, even though he didn’t have a talent, he wanted to be on stage. His workaround was to learn...

For me, Golden Richards was the epitome of the pretty-boy Dallas Cowboys of the 1970s. I also think Richards, the talented wide receiver wh...

I've written quite a bit on my obsession with getting to Hawaii someday. And I've started (but never finished) many times reading J...

MAD About TV is a top-notch 1999 collection of TV spoofs from MAD Magazine.  Here I’m reviewing the takeoffs on All in the Family, Columbo ...

I gobbled up the first six seasons of Curb Your Enthusiam, which ran from 2000 to 2007 on HBO. For some reason, I never returned to the show...

Jon Stewart’s Naked Pictures of Famous People  has been sitting on my bookshelf unread for many years, alongside some of my favorite comedy ...

When I was a kid, my friends and I watched Caddyshack over and over again. We must have watched it 10 times at my friend Dewey's house a...

Everyone is rightfully talking about The Bear ( including me ). But they should also be talking about Hulu’s amazingly hilarious This Fool ,...

I’ve been a big fan of Rob Lowe’s podcast Literally! for a while now. He's a funny and likeable actor who has lots of famous friends an...

Wilson is a balding, bespectacled little man who walks his dog around Oakland, making observations about jerks with their ridiculously over-...

There aren’t too many people who I could listen to for about 90 minutes each week just ramble about sports, life, self help, comedy tours, a...

In my tweens, one of my very favorite things was ABC's Tuesday-night lineup. I watched Happy Days at 7 Central, Laverne and Shirley at 7...

The perfect storm for a great comedy, in my book, mixes how touching a film is, hilarity, and a great soundtrack. That’s probably why School...

Al Michaels is a master class in sports journalism. And SmartLess is a master class in comedic and heartwarming podcasts. The two collided w...

Tegan and Sara visit the set. Comedy Bang! Bang!  contunues on as a podcast but ran in TV form on IFC from 2012 to 2016 and it was perhaps m...