In this 1992 comedy sketch, Stiller and crew successfully skewer the grunge scene while mimicking The Monkees. more ›

Keeping their word to release a new album by the end of the year, The Black Keys announced that they’ll drop their next full-length, El Camino, on December 6. But instead of just saying so, they announced the new album with a cryptic but comical video campaign involving Bob Odenkirk and a used minivan. more ›

Bob Odenkirk is a well-traveled man in the world of show business. He’s written for Saturday Night Live and Mr. Show, produced the now-defunct Tom Goes to the Mayor (Tim Heidecker & Eric Wareheim’s original Adult Swim show) and has had numerous roles on television, including Seinfeld and the AMC drama about meth, Breaking Bad. So when Odenkirk was slated to perform in two separate productions for TBS’s Just For Laughs Festival, we were none surprised. One of these productions was The Not Inappropriate Show, a series of comedy sketches written by Odenkirk and his wife that for whatever reason happened to be family-friendly. The show was indeed family-friendly (not inappropriate) and, more importantly, very funny. more ›

God bless you, French subtitles. more ›

Jesse Thorn, Host of The Sound of Young America more ›

Good news for Late Night fans: Conan O’Brien will be string dancing his way into town to broadcast his show for the week of May 9-12. The show has visited locations such as Toronto, Los Angeles and, most recently, Finland, but this will be the first Chicago broadcast. And it’s about friggin’ time. more ›

A number of the most important figures in the world graphic novels (a more artsy and less-juvenile way of saying “comic books”) are hometown boys. Dan Clowes – author of the Eightball series and the Ghost World comic and screenplay – and Chris Ware – who has a weekly strip in the Reader and just edited McSweeney’s comics-only issue (oh, Dave Eggers, you so crazy!) – are two of the most prominent examples. And while their contemporary Adrian Tomine doesn’t hail from the shores of Lake Michigan – he foolishly spends his time on the coasts instead – at least he’ll be in town tonight promoting his latest collection, the odds-and-ends anthology Scrapbook. more ›