Sitcoms

Five TV shows that were canceled much too soon

Futurama has been cancelled...again. Fans are keenly aware that the show was nuked back in 2003 by Fox, then brought back by Comedy Central after it bought the rights to the four movies in 2007. But this season will reportedly be the last one, with the series finale airing on September 4. Yes, Fut ... More >>

Everyone on New Girl needs therapy...but that's why we love them

Melissa McCarthy is not your best friend anymore

See also: The confused, shaggy Identity Thief is a comedic shambles

The Stick of Truth hopes to be the first great South Park game

As if South Park, Colorado, doesn't have enough problems (Canadians, Gingers and the fearsome Jewpacabra among them), Cartman, Stan, Kyle, Kenny and the whole South Park gang will soon lay waste to the hapless burg in the upcoming video game South Park: The Stick of Truth. See also: - 10 video game ... More >>

In honor of Book of Mormon, here's a pop history of religious satire

"I believe that ancient Jews built boats and sailed to America/I am a Mormon, and a Mormon just believes," sings Elder Price in Matt Stone and Trey Parker's iconic musical, The Book of Mormon. And while the theological irreverence of a song like "Spooky Mormon Hell Dream," or the existential send-up ... More >>

The Book of Mormon really is that good

Review photos: The Book of Mormon is a godsend!

The Book of Mormon finally arrived in Denver, freighted with a massive weight of hype, slick marketing, praise and excitement for this musical created by Trey Parker and Matt Stone, both Colorado natives. The show had sold out within hours last January, with friends posting photographs of themselves ... More >>

Funny Things Happen

Joe Coors for Congress spends big on Denver TV ads -- especially during The Big Bang Theory

Editor's note: This election cycle, Westword is exploring the public records of television stations for information on how candidates are spending money on ads in Denver. Joe Coors, your average local candidate for Congress who is not a beer, appears to be trying to secure support from an unusual ... More >>

Videos: Trey Parker-Matt Stone's The Book of Mormon on Tony awards, 60 Minutes

Talk about staying power. This week, 60 Minutes aired immediately before the Tony Awards -- but rather than conduct an interview with a new nominee, the venerable program rebroadcast a September interview with Colorado alums Trey Parker and Matt Stone. And then, the awards themselves kicked off with ... More >>

FML, white girl sitcoms and other things that can stay in 2011

R.I.P. FML 2008-2011​Yes, 2012 is creeping up on us like my 32nd birthday (no need to send presents -- I will only be accepting fan letters as gifts and creepy Facebook messages of adoration from high school stalkers). Since the world is not going to be ending as some of us maybe thought it wa ... More >>

The best and worst of sitcoms starring musicians

We feel the same way about you, Fred Durst.​The bad news is that Snoop Dogg is getting a sitcom, a no-doubt hackneyed affair starring the Doggfather as a patriarch with his mind on his family and his family on his mind. The even worse news is that Limp Bizkit front-penis Fred Durst is apparent ... More >>

Snoop's sitcom has already jumped the shark

Janice Hahn attack ad filmmaker fine with liberal media branding his clip racist (VIDEOS)

Video below.​Last week, we noted the weird cameo by convicted Greeley gang-banger Christian Hanson in an allegedly racist attack video aimed at Janice Hahn, a California candidate running for Congress in a special election taking place tomorrow. Afterward, we heard from filmmaker Ladd Ehlinger ... More >>

Beavis and Butt-Head and four other '90s shows that deserve a revamp

​Ever since MTV announced in February that Beavis and Butt-Head would return to television, we've been getting more and more stoked for the comeback of these cherished cartoon cretins. In anticipation of the re-do, which is slated for this summer, we take a look at four more '90s TV shows that ... More >>

The ten best children's shows not meant for children

​We miss Saturday mornings sometimes, when we would run downstairs filled with sugary cereal and spend the day watching cartoons and "educational programming." Even though these days we're well aware of the alphabet (some of us, at least -- mostly those that don't comment articles on the inter ... More >>

John Suthers, attorney general, channels South Park to stop underage drinking (VIDEO)

​Imagine my surprise the other night when, in the midst of enjoying an episode of Friday Night Lights on Hulu (Clear eyes, full hearts, can't lose!), a commercial popped on featuring Colorado Attorney General John Suthers. And not just any John Suthers -- an animated John Suthers straight out ... More >>

Glenn Beck and Charlie Sheen: Too weird to live, too rare to die

Dying is for fools, amateurs.​Somewhere in the last couple of years, so gradually it was hard to notice at first, Glenn Beck went from annoying and somewhat menacing to hilarious. While watching Bill O'Reilly remains basically like watching a talk show with the evil trees from The Wizard of Oz ... More >>

Ten and a half actor replacements that give Charlie Sheen a run for his boatload of money

You can be replaced, possibly by a rotating cast.​It's hard out there for a pimp. Or at least a warlock like Charlie Sheen. When it was announced that CBS had begun looking for actors to replace his role on Two and a Half Men, the cogs started turning and the rumor mill spit out one replacemen ... More >>

Reader: Jason Sheehan should have fit right into smug Seattle

South Park is no Seattle...or Philadelphia.​The news that Jason Sheehan is leaving the Pacific Northwest to return to the East Coast and a job at Philadelphia Magazine inspired numerous comments that indicated Sheehan may be long-gone as the Westword food critic, but will never be forgotten. A ... More >>

Hulu's Best in Show sets out to determine the best show on TV

​Hulu's latest thematic bundling of its online TV content takes the form of a bracket trying to determine the best show on TV. It's a great idea, generally, but it depends on fan voting. So, get excited for the finals showdown between Glee and Modern Family. As with all brackets, it's most exc ... More >>

Gas exploration and five other things the residents of South Park have been upset about

Leading the charge against El Paso Corp.?​Even when you're talking about the real actual place called South Park, which is not really a town, but rather a 1,000-some square-mile area of grasslands southwest of Pikes Peak, the phrase "gas exploration" sounds like a set-up for a Terrance and Phi ... More >>

Comedy Central's Comedy Awards: Due recognition or sideshow?

​Comedy Central announced an awards show devoted to comedy today. It will be called The Comedy Awards and will air simultaneously on Comedy Central, VH1, Spike, TV Land and Nick at Night on March 26. On one hand, comedy does tend to get boned in the other major awards, particularly the Oscars ... More >>

Two-year-old spoof of "What What (In the Butt)" garners copyright infringement suit

According to an official statement from Brownmark Films, the company, best known for the above completely idiotic video and Internet phenomenon from 2007, has decided to file a lawsuit against Viacom International, Comedy Partners, Paramount Pictures Corporation, MTV Networks and South Park Digita ... More >>

Ken Buck & Michael Bennet, South Park-style: Who's the douche and who's the turd sandwich?

​KOA's Mike Rosen accused AM 760's David Sirota of being humorless after Sirota circulated a Rosen line from a debate about crashing a plane into a thus-far-unbuilt mosque near Ground Zero -- a joke, according to Rosen, but one that still led to MSNBC's Keith Olbermann branding him the worst p ... More >>

Saturday Night Live gives Fort Collins an intro shout-out, The Big Bang Theory plugs Coors

Nasim Pedrad as Gloria Allred.​In today's edition of Colorado references on network TV shows, we have two prominent entries -- one from the latest episode of The Big Bang Theory, a show hilarious enough to be surviving a switch from Mondays to Thursday, and Saturday Night Live, whose writers p ... More >>

Duff beer, brontosaurus ribs and gummiberry juice: top five cartoon foods we wish were real

We're glad spoo isn't real. ​There are quite a few cartoon foods we're glad aren't real: spoo, for example, a substance described as "meat jello," that's made an appearance on not one, but two cartoons. Other disturbing foods found in cartoons include the sawdust-y "powdered toast" from Ren a ... More >>

FUNNY BUSINESS

Friends forever and other cool-destroying admissions

​Okay we all have some skeletons in our closet, shit we dig -- be it music, movies or television shows -- that we'd just as soon that nobody else knew about. Guilty pleasures is what most people term these sort of inclinations. Well, here at Backbeat, there's no shame in our game -- assuming, ... More >>

Lost in Space

Buntport’s Starship Troy comes in for a landing.

Q&A with Martin Short

Up, Up and Away

Don’t miss the final season of Starship Troy.

Friday Rap-Up: DJ Bedz, Jay-Z, Mary J. Blige, Dr. Dre, Flavor Flav

The Nerd-Rush of Aught-Seven

Down South

Visiting South Park with the man who would be Butters.

Mile-High Low

And you thought network sitcoms were bad…

Star Wreck

Buntport launches a new Starship.

Bugging Out

This comic superhero es muy popular.

Shut Up, Already

Storage tRUNks

See the best that Buntport has

Oh, Grow Up

Failure is Matthew McConaughey's perfect movie.

The Edge of Treason

Bridget Jones is betrayed by a dumb, dull sequel.

Lazy Like a Foxx

Breakin' All the Rules packs all the fun of a mediocre sitcom.

That '60s Show

Oliver Beene goes against fake millionaires and phony idols

Your New Friends?

NBC hopes Coupling is its next hitcom, which bugs the show's biggest fans

Join the Club

Buntport Theater offers sitcoms with a twist.

Good Cop, Bad Cop

Denis Leary is on The Job, but can ABC find him an audience?

Get Me Rewrite!

A pitch meeting for Colorado sitcom ideas.

TV or Not TV?

Leave It to Reruns