As I wing to Seattle, television critics from around the country are flying to Los Angeles for the annual Television Critics Association con...

*an old SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE reference. Garrett Morris as Chico Escuela , former ballplayer and... you had to be there I guess. Baseball i...

The life of an aspiring stand up comedian is a grueling one. Years of knocking around, working crappy comedy clubs, first on open mic nigh...

Here's the scene that ruined the movie David and I wrote, VOLUNTEERS. Tom Hanks stars as a preppy who ducks a gambling debt by joining ...

After we filmed the first few episodes of CHEERS, director Jim Burrows came into the writing room and said, "Guys, our money is Sam and...

7-7-7 is the cosmic good luck premiere of WHODAGUY HAWAII , the internet radio station for anyone wh o loves the music, heritage, culture, a...

Here's another one of my favorite all-time scenes from a sitcom. From the PHIL SILVERS SHOW, co-written by Nat Hiken, this is the Court...

$450 for one ticket to a Broadway show? Are you kidding me?? When Mel Brooks’ new musical adaptation of YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN hits the Great ...

Many thanks to the Seattle Mariners for inviting me to pinch hit for a couple of games next week on their broadcast. I’ll be joining the r...

Why the hell do people buy home fireworks? How many fingers and eyebrows do they have to lose? How many trailer parks have to burn down bef...

Since the 4th of July falls on a Wednesday and it’s hard to determine which side of it to take the long holiday weekend Hollywood just takes...

I’ve been asked to leave Los Angeles. The iPhone has been out for over three days now and I don’t have one yet. In this town that’s unacce...

I've been tagged. Challenged to list five of my weird habits. The real challenge is to hold it down to five. 1) In a restaurant, theatr...

We filmed the first eight episodes of CHEERS before the series aired. So studio audiences were unfamiliar with the characters. As a result...

Joel Siegel was my first writing partner. As I detailed in this blog, we were in the same Army Reserve unit together in the early 70s and ...

What happened to Paula Abdul? My partner and I once wrote a sketch for THE TRACEY ULLMAN SHOW that she choreographed. She was great. ...

OCEAN'S THIRTEEN is doing well at the boxoffice. Audiences love glitzy caper movies even if the capers are completely ridiculous. ...

It all started with Steve Martin – the doofas who thought he was really cool. Will Ferrell has since made a career out of that persona (wha...

Okay, that’s it! Uncle! I give up. I’ve seen my last summer blockbuster for the season. Yawned at my last dazzling special effect. Giv...

One night in a sports bar in Syracuse, New York, I saw the greatest thing. Gary Cohen (now the TV voice of the NY Mets) and Dan Hoard (the ...