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My Mother the Car. Mr. Ed. Joanie Loves Chachi. BJ and the Bear. The Gong Show. In any discussion of what many consider the scourge of the 200-channel universe - reality television - one must acknowledge that inanity is not exactly new to the small screen.

In our opinion, the biggest side effect of sitcoms being squeezed out by cable, reality TV, the Internet and the bulbous chin of Jay Leno is that some sitcom cuties aren't getting the attention they deserve.

The writings of a comic genius are back in book form By KEITH LORIA Hour Correspondent Ask anyone who has ever been involved in the comedy world -- from Mel Brooks to Steve Martin to George Clooney -- and they'll tell you that Carl Reiner has one of the best comedic minds of all time.

Family Matters TV comedies, by their very definition, aren't taken very seriously - family sitcoms least of all.

A host of veteran comedians, including Jerry Seinfeld, Chris Rock, Carl Reiner, Sinbad, and Dick Gregory, paid tribute to Bill Cosby as he received the 12th annual Mark Twain Prize for American Humor at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington Monday night.

"Once upon a time's gotta count for something." - Zloz to Hank Ah, the old friend from back home trick.

Carl Reiner, the famed writer, producer, and actor, has recently released two books, a children's story and a novel.

If it wasn't for Carl Reiner's older brother Charlie, "Your Show of Shows" would have been missing one of its funniest regulars, there would be no "2,000 Year-Old Man" routines with Mel Brooks, and no classic sitcom series "The Dick Van Dyke Show." Seventy-one years ago, Reiner was working for $10 a week as a shipping clerk in the garment industry ...

The Pensacola Civic Band performs Oct. 22 at the Erie Meyer Center in Gulf Shores, Ala., as part of the In and Out Music Series.

Before Carl Reiner had written a single word of his latest work of adult fiction - before he even had an idea for it - he called his friend, writer Larry Gelbart, and asked for a blurb.

With as many credits and accomplishments as Carl Reiner has, one might think his 87-year-old brain would be ready for an extended sabbatical on some beach in Florida.

It's bigger than the NFL. It's drawing more than celebrity dancing. It's the little show that could.

Twice in the past week, complete strangers have spontaneously started conversations with me about "Seinfeld," the iconic NBC sitcom that went off the air more than 11 years ago.

ACCORDING to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, US households watch eight hours of television a day.

Most women have them, but few are willing to admit it -- those guilty pleasures or extra little treats they feel they should avoid, but simply can't resist.

They laugh alike. They walk alike. And, at times, they even talk alike. In the bonus interview on this DVD, Patty Duke says that creator Sydney Sheldon was the first person to diagnose her bipolar disorder.

In a bygone age of television, married couples slept in twin beds. Lucy and Ricky Ricardo had twin beds in their bedroom on the television show "I Love Lucy," and so did Rob and Laura on "The Dick Van Dyke Show." Historians attribute this to an overall sense of morality -- thou shalt not indicate husband and wife share a bed on public television.

As with all the "favorite" lists I make, I do not claim to have taken in everything there is to take in.

Rivers also pushed to get the kind of work denied African-Americans when he was a youngster growing up in 1960s South Los Angeles.

The FBI has put out the alert for a new bank robber, one who knocked off a Memorial Drive Wachovia... HouStoned ​Workers who normally drive into the city were likely surprised to be handed a piece of Ghirardelli chocolate as they... The Snitch I'm used to the Jersey shore: tens of thousands of people crammed onto a coastline about the size ...