Jim Norton is "especially fond of the Irish author, poet and playwright Samuel Beckett." Beckett's that guy who created that show Happy Days, right? [All Headline News] Lisa Lampanelli says "anyone can stand up there and tell dumb jokes or observational crap. But the fact is, ther...

Filed under: The Daily Show, Stargate, Web, Celebrities, Heroes, Star Trek: The Next Generation, TV Squad Lists, Reality-Free, TV Squad Ten Yep, I got a Twitter. It's part of my plan to plaster the Internet with links to my must-read blog posts about '90s indie rock and that handsome bastard Neil Pa...

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Since the first season of MTV's Human Giant rolled out on DVD last Tuesday and the new season started up last night, the Insider team decided we needed a good-sized Human Giant feature today. And since I'm the only one on staff who, before today, had never seen or even heard of Human Giant, they dec...

Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, TV on DVD, Interviews Considering that MTV seems to cater to nothing but teenagers, how did two thirtysomethings and a very mature 25 year-old end up making one of the network's most popular shows? By being funny. Damn funny, in fact. Rob Huebel, Aziz Ansari, and Pau...