Curious as to how Mike White (the multi-hyphenate behind films like School of Rock and Nacho Libre) ended up a contestant on The Amazing Race ? White talked to Defamer about what exactly got him running. So where did the idea to do the show come from? I'm a not-so-closeted reality TV fan, a traitor ...

His manic persona may have ebbed, and his profile may have lowered since the 1980s. All the better for Bobcat Goldthwait, one of the unlikelier Sundance darlings we've run into this year in Park City. Goldthwait is attending Sundance with the comedy World's Greatest Dad, his second festival entry in...

Kathy Griffin isn't just a frequent subject of our fair site—she's also a Defamer reader. And so, who better for us to interview to help make sense of the crazy Hollywood year that was 2008? When we spoke to Griffin, she had just left Los Angeles (where she'd eaten Christmas Eve dinner at Cher...

In anticipation of the pop culture nuclear winter to come, actor/writer/comic/former Daily Show correspondent Rob Corddry has begun stockpiling episodes of his new web series Children's Hospital , and lining them like cans of government-issue creamed corn on the shelves of the fallout bunker known a...