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Tony Danza Avoided Jail Time Thanks to ‘Who’s the Boss?’

2 days ago | cracked.com | Matt Solomon

Tony Danza excelled at playing sitcom characters named “Tony.” In his breakthrough show Taxi, Danza starred as Tony Banta, a wanna-be prize fighter. (He wasn’t very good at it — at one point, the show revealed his record was 8 wins against 24 losses. He also got knocked out 14 times, which has to be a violation of concussion protocols.) The show ran for five seasons, collecting 18 Emmy Awards before finally pulling into the Sunshine Cab garage for good. But you can’t keep a good Tony down.
Five Hopelessly Violent Sitcom Babies

2 days ago | cracked.com | Brian VanHooker

Pretty much everything is funnier when a baby does it. Think about it, when’s the last time you watched a reel of adults just laughing? Or smashing a cake with abandon? Hopefully never, because such things sound obnoxious and cringe when an adult does them. But a baby explaining the plot of Star Wars? Hilarious.
I Was the Guy Kicked Off ‘Taxi’ After the First Season

4 days ago | cracked.com | Brian VanHooker

The moment John Burns stepped through the doors of the Sunshine Cab Company, his days were numbered. Things seemed good at the start; in the very first episode of Taxi, Burns, a country bumpkin who had just arrived in the big city, almost immediately got a job as a cabbie. But it was all downhill from there. Throughout Season One, Burns appeared less and less, and in some episodes, he barely spoke at all.
David Letterman’s First Head Writer, Merrill Markoe, Recalls Making the Late-Night Legend’s Short-Lived Morning Show

4 days ago | cracked.com | Brian VanHooker

First a beloved weatherman and children’s show host in Indianapolis, David Letterman eventually graduated to becoming a regular on game shows and talk shows in L.A. And after he filled in for Johnny Carson on The Tonight Show with great success, NBC’s Fred Silverman gave Letterman his own 90-minute morning show, The David Letterman Show. It did not go well.
When ‘Happy Days’ Really, Really Tried to Be Progressive

5 days ago | cracked.com | Amanda Mannen

Race was a complicated issue on TV in the ‘70s. Not that it’s been simple, oh, any other time in the history of the medium, but it was an in-between time when they were trying to have it both ways. Individual series were still largely segregated, but they had to have the occasional very special episode before there were very special episodes to make sure the audience knew the white people on TV were the “good” white people.
20 Pairs of Characters That People Want to See Fight Each Other

6 days ago | cracked.com | Amanda Mannen

It’s a tale as old as recess: Who would win in a fight? Batman or Superman? Freddy Krueger or Jason Vorhees? My dad or your dad? Of course, it’s not always about winning. Sometimes, two characters are so hilariously mismatched — or so unexpectedly even — that the fight itself would be more interesting than the result. Whatever the case, we love to pit imaginary people against each other. Redditor Tigerking3000 certainly has plenty of ideas. “Superman vs.
I Created Roger Rabbit

6 days ago | cracked.com | Brian VanHooker

Most movies based on books — even the massively successful or critically acclaimed ones — will always be considered books first, movies second. However, there are those few films borne from works of literature with stories so perfectly suited to the medium that it’s difficult to imagine the book ever even existed in the first place. The Wizard of Oz is one, and so is Jurassic Park. Another adaptation that belongs to this rare category is the 1988 Academy Award winner Who Framed Roger Rabbit.
60 of the Funniest Burns from the Week of June 16, 2025

1 week ago | cracked.com | Alyson Lewis

If A.I. really is the future, a lot of tech bros are in for some sleepless nights. On Monday, CEO, YouTuber and developer, Theo, took to Twitter to complain that he woke up because his A.I.-powered bed was too cold. He further explained his plight, saying, “Went to adjust temperature and I can’t because the Eight Sleep app is currently broken. Can’t adjust by hand because I have a Pod3, not the upgraded Pod4 with physical controls. Now I am stuck in a cold bed.
Bill Maher Blames the Rise of the Manosphere on ‘The Simpsons’ and Will Ferrell

1 week ago | cracked.com | Jm McNab

Despite the fact that he has no children of his own (if you don’t count the children he drunkenly lectured on his podcast), Bill Maher sure has a lot to say about fatherhood. Last June, Maher used Father’s Day as a springboard to complain that overly sensitive dads are the cause of America’s teen mental health epidemic — and not, you know, a global pandemic and increased economic insecurity.
A Brief History of Ted Cruz Sucking at Monty Python Memes

1 week ago | cracked.com | Jm McNab

As most of us are aware of by now, Texas Senator Ted Cruz recently sat for a combative interview with performance artist Tucker Carlson. In an exchange that no doubt sparked countless uses of the ClickHole-inspired“Worst Person You Know Just Made a Great Point” meme, Carlson got Cruz to admit that he doesn’t know the population of Iran, despite hawkishly suggesting that the U.S. government should bomb the country and spearhead a regime change.