Joel Hodgson News

You may not have gotten the day off for this momentous day in American history , but today marks a very special anniversary: the first ever episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000 .

What's better than sitting around riffing on bad sci-fi movies in the comfort of your living room? Joining fellow "Mystery Science Theatre 3000" fans for a communal experience called "Cinematic Titanic," a live version of the cult classic TV show.

Win tickets to see Cinematic Titanic -- Saturday night, November 21st at The Family Arena! CINEMATIC TITANIC is the new feature-length movie riffing show from the creator and original cast of MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER 3000.

As a long time "Mystery Science Theater 3000" fan, I was a little wary when I heard that the show's creator, Joel Hodgson, had recruited four fellow MST3K performers for a new movie-riffing venture.

In the realm of hard-to-sell job skills, Joel Hodgson has cornered the market on an unthinkable cottage industry: making fun of movies in front of a paying audience.

You could get your "Mystery Science Theater 3000 '' fix on DVD, but come on, what fun is that? Not when you can laugh with a whole theater of fans of the cult-classic TV series that's the brainchild of Ashwaubenon High School grad Joel Hodgson.

Two robots and a janitor go into a darkened theater - the setup to a joke that brightened the lives of American audiences for 11 years ending in 1999.

MST3K: MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATRE 3000 XV MST3K: MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATRE 3000 XV Tuesday, July 28 2009 04:17 David McKendry Often overlooked by horror fans MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATRE 3000 was an excellent source for forgotten and obscure horror fans.A With the release MST3K XV horror fans are treated to two gems of horror/ sci-fi magic.A For those of you ...

The conspiracy theorist and me has started to believe that the cancellation of Mystery Science Theater 3000 was an intricately plotted plan to maximize productivity and profits and make everyone who had ever been involved with the show rich.

ONE OF THE GREAT schisms of nerddom is the split that occurred since " Mystery Science Theater 3000 " went off the air.

For the uninitiated, Mystery Science Theater 3000 is a cult comedy phenomenon that hit the United States, via Minneapolis, in 1988.

The Show: These are tough times for us Mystery Science Theater 3000 fans. It's not a problem of content--in fact, quite the contrary.

Hodgson, left, with his unsinkable comedy crew. Two decades since he made watching lousy movies on Comedy Central one of the funniest ways to waste a mid-'90s afternoon, Joel Hodgson has found a new, if similar, calling: a live touring show, Cinematic Titanic , with the original Mystery Science Theater 3000 cast silhouetted against campy sci-fi ...

The comedy cast of "Cinematic Titanic": Joel Hodgson, J. Elvis Weinstein, Mary Jo Pehl, Frank Conniff, Trace Beaulieu Not all bad movies are created equal.