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Albert Brooks Defends His Life, Career and Comedy

November 8, 2023 By Jackson Murphy

“Finding Nemo” was the second movie I ever saw in a theater. I watched “Broadcast News” a long time ago and went to see “The Simpsons Movie” on opening night. So I’ve been familiar with Albert Brooks for a long time. But his new documentary “Albert Brooks: Defending My Life” (premiering Saturday at 8pm on […]

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‘The Story of Late Night’ Episode One Review

April 30, 2021 By Jackson Murphy

CNN’s new six-part docuseries “The Story of Late Night” begins this Sunday May 2nd at 9pm. I’ve screened the first episode (titled “Inventing Late Night”), which breezes through the ‘50s and most of the ‘60s at a fairly rapid pace. This isn’t the most thorough look at the origins of network programming at 11:30pm. And […]

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King Carson

March 1, 2021 By Jackson Murphy

Over the past few weeks I’ve watched some old episodes of “The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson” on AntennaTV. They air weeknights at 10pm. Carson’s 30-year reign ended six years before I was born, so this is the first time I’m getting to experience what it was like for my parents’ and grandparents’ generation to […]

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