“I hope this book feels like a Simpsons episode: fast-paced, full of quick scenes, and stuffed with hundreds of jokes, some of them funny. I’ve even structured it like a Simpsons script, which has four acts: setup, complication, resolution and coda.” -Mike Reiss (from Springfield Confidential, page 7) In the mid-2000’s I was employed as […]
Tag: Entertainment Tonight
Johnny Carson by Henry Bushkin (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $36)
by Andreas Kessaris for Curtains Up! “If life were fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead.” -Johnny Carson Comedy-variety has always been my favorite television show format. And from 1962 to 1992 Johnny Carson was the undisputed master. I fondly remember the mid-eighties when NBC […]

