Tara Ariano

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Host at Extra Hot Great: This Week In TV

Co-Host at Again With This: Beverly Hills, 90210 & Melrose Place

I try to be good hard worker man, but refrigemator so messy. So, so messy. @taraariano on any other social media platform you might use [email protected]

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Articles

John Mulaney Is One of the Best TV Comedy Guest Stars Ever

6 days ago | cracked.com | Tara Ariano

Audiences have countless associations with John Mulaney. He’s a virtuosic comic. He’s a sketch performer. He’s a Broadway star. He’s an Emmy-winning writer. He’s a talk show host. In a sense, he’s Spider-Pig.
For Its Second Season, ‘Conan O’Brien Must Go’ Loosens Up

1 week ago | cracked.com | Tara Ariano

In 2010, a few months after the last episode of The Tonight Show With Conan O’Brien aired, O’Brien embarked upon The Legally Prohibited from Being Funny on Television Tour. Through the spring and summer of that year, he traveled around the U.S. and Canada with a variety show based on the titular idea: After NBC canceled his version of the long-running late-night show and replaced him with his predecessor, Jay Leno, O’Brien contractually had to wait before launching another show.
For Its Second Season, ‘Conan O’Brien Must Go’ Loosens Up

1 week ago | flipboard.com | Tara Ariano

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David Spade’s New Stand-Up Special Stays on Uncontroversial Topics in the Bravest Possible Way

1 week ago | cracked.com | Tara Ariano

David Spade was a cast member on Saturday Night Live when I was in high school, which as we all know means he imprinted on me in a fundamental way. But he was also a standup comic, and I’m sure I saw his set everywhere he did it, including in his first appearance on The Tonight Show in 1991. More than 30 years later, Spade is still making jokes about air travel, waving drivers in ahead of him in traffic and the socially conscious celebrities of the day.
The New Season of ‘Poker Face’ Considers A Natasha Lyonne Who’s More Than A Bullshit Detector

1 week ago | cracked.com | Tara Ariano

The history of comedy on TV is littered with characters who have extraordinary gifts. There are the ones who can do literal magic, like Samantha on Bewitched, Jeannie on I Dream of Jeannie, or, well, all the witches of Agatha All Along (and WandaVision, which spun it off). There are space aliens, like Uncle Martin in My Favorite Martian or The Great Gazoo on The Flintstones or Mork on Mork & Mindy. There are straight-up mutant superheroes, like in She-Hulk or Doom Patrol or The Boys.
Jason Mantzoukas Has All the Time in the World to Answer ‘Taskmaster’ Questions

1 week ago | cracked.com | Tara Ariano

Rafi in The League. Dennis Feinstein in Parks and Recreation. Adrian Pimento in Brooklyn Nine-Nine. Derek in The Good Place. If you’ve watched or listened to comedy at any point in the past 15 years or so, you’ve seen and almost certainly been delighted by Jason Mantzoukas. Now the seemingly fearless self-described “maniac” is taking on what may be his biggest challenge yet: the 19th season of Taskmaster.
Tina Fey’s ‘The Four Seasons’ Has Nothing Funny to Say About Middle-Aged Problems

2 weeks ago | cracked.com | Tara Ariano

In the series premiere of 30 Rock, created by Tina Fey, TV showrunner Liz Lemon (Fey) meets Jack Donaghy (Alec Baldwin), GE’s new Vice President of East Coast Television and Microwave Oven Programming and, thus, her new boss. Most of the time, the humor of their relationship derives from the gap between Liz’s quasi-adolescent mess of a life and Jack’s suave self-assurance.
‘The Conners’ Bittersweet Finale Proves One Last Time That No Franchise Ever Portrayed Struggle Better

3 weeks ago | cracked.com | Tara Ariano

Warning: Contains spoilers about the two-part series finale of The Conners, which aired April 23rd. Between Roseanne and its sequel/spin-off The Conners, there were well over 300 episodes in the Lanford-verse before the Season Seven premiere of The Conners last month. That already would have been a lot of old story to wrap up before the show’s producers started introducing new plotlines — and it all had to be dispensed with in just six 21-minute episodes.
Brett Goldstein Isn’t Afraid to Say ‘Men Is Bad’

3 weeks ago | cracked.com | Tara Ariano

It’s unfair to say that Ted Lasso pulled a full bait-and-switch on its audience. But it is probably true that a lot of people who tuned in to watch a sitcom in which a clueless American tries to coach the sport every other country calls football weren’t expecting it to become a meditation on mental health, particularly men’s.
‘The Conners’ Gives Becky the Spotlight - For Once

4 weeks ago | cracked.com | Tara Ariano

Warning: contains spoilers for the April 16th episode of The Conners. The cold open of this week’s episode of The Conners — “Danny Boy, the Interview, the New Hire and the Hanging Chad” — quickly reminds us of the many storylines currently active on the show. Mark (Ames McNamara) is still making money as a hacker; his mother, Darlene (Sara Gilbert), has kicked him out of the house over it.