David Sims's posts

It’s very hard to let Saturday Night Live have its cake and eat it too. I can’t fault the show for opening as it did…

Here’s the reason I think it’s sometimes better to have non-comedians as the guests on Comedy Bang! Bang! – it can…

“Here Comes The Son” (season 3, episode 21, originally aired 5/13/2003)

Since 2007, TV Club has dissected television episode by episode. Beginning this September, The A.V. Club will also…

It goes without saying that this is the episode we’ve all been waiting for. Not just for this season, but for years.…

I love it when Saturday Night Live just has someone host because why not. Is Edward Norton even in a movie this year?…

It’s no secret that Paul Reubens’ Pee-wee Herman is one of Scott Aukerman’s hugest influences—on more than one…

With the rise of social media, late-night comedy TV has been the quickest to corral social media in an effort to…

In the end, it’s so blindingly obvious that Childrens Hospital had to stage an epic action-packed finale to bid…

“Keg! Max!” (season 3, episode 19, originally aired 4/29/2003) / “Say Goodnight, Gracie” (season 3, episode 20,…

I think Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D needs to realize that it can’t coast by on action alone. This week’s episode had a…

The Good Wife is one of the few shows on network TV that can still send an electric chill up your spine. Not because…

“Two Dozen And One Greyhounds” (season 6, episode 20, originally aired 4/9/1995)

Sometimes Comedy Bang! Bang! just pays direct homage to its great episodes. We already had the appearance of Fourvel …

Every time Childrens Hospital does a behind-the-scenes episode, I wonder if this is the one that will wear out the…

“A Tale Of Poes And Fire” (season 3, episode 17, originally aired 4/15/2003)

Welcome to the TV Roundtable, where some of TV Club’s writers tackle episodes that deal with a central theme. This…

Watching The Good Wife this week, I felt like a kid whose parents are fighting in front of him who keeps whacking…

Bruce Willis hasn’t hosted Saturday Night Live since the first episode of the 1989 season, when Neil Young was the…

I enjoy a Shakespeare homage as much as the next man, but “A Lot Of Brouhaha Over Zilch” was an especially strange…