Category: Humor
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Neil Hamburger at the Bottom of the Hill
Neil Hamburger was in town for the latest iteration of his comedy act on Saturday, accompanied by opening act Sir Richard Bishop, an experimental guitarist. They performed at the intimate, dive-y, and unfortunately soon-to-be-defunct Bottom of the Hill. I can’t claim to be familiar with Bishop’s work, but his solo act is somewhat akin to…
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Six most outrageous moments in 2026’s 13th Annual On Cinema Oscar Special (“The Last Oscar Special”)
The 13th Annual On Cinema Oscar Special last Sunday promised to be “The Last Oscar Special.” Unsurprisingly, things didn’t go as planned — one might even say it was a true tragedy. (Note for those still catching up with On Cinema: Host Tim Heidecker is now going as New Amato because *takes deep breath* “New”…
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How Many Bags? A guide to On Cinema’s movie ratings
On Cinema’s live Oscar Special is this Sunday, and it promises to be The Last Oscar Special. So in honor of the series finale of On Cinema (or at least, until they inevitably announce a reunion immediately afterwards), I’ve launched a new website with all the movies rated on the show over the past…
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Five most outrageous moments in 2025’s 12th Annual On Cinema Oscar Special
On Cinema’s 12th Oscar Special begins in the front yard of Movie House, which is now locked and the entire group has been evicted. But let’s back up a step: how did we get here? Spoilers follow! Season 15 of On Cinema opens with the revelation that Gregg used his settlement funds — which he…
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When RoboCop parodied San Francisco’s most infamous assassination
In 1978 former San Francisco supervisor Dan White assassinated mayor George Moscone and supervisor Harvey Milk. There’s a movie starring Sean Penn about it. What some may not know is the hyper violent comedy movie RoboCop from 1987 contains a sequence parodying this event. The movie technically takes place in Detroit, renamed Delta City (“The…
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In The Know with Clifford Banes: The Onion’s best show
Now that The Onion has been acquired by Global Tetrahedron I’d love to see them bring back their best content. For those who don’t remember here’s the quick summary: the glory days of The Onion were before it was acquired by Univision, merged with the decrypt remains of Gawker after that Hulk Hogan/Peter Thiel mess,…
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Six most outrageous moments in the 2024 On Cinema Oscar Special, aka “AmatoCon”
Once again I’m here to provide my takes on the latest On Cinema Oscar Special. Except this year it’s called AmatoCon and it’s a business conference with a special presentation about The Power of Mercy from G. Amato. He believes in the power of mercy… or so he says. Spoilers follow! Describing the events that…
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Six most outrageous moments in the 2023 On Cinema Oscar Special
Now in its tenth year, On Cinema at the Cinema finished its previous season 13 with Tim Heidecker completely defeated. But now he’s back for the 10th Annual On Cinema Oscar Special, along with co-host(!) Gregg Turkington! Sometimes people ask me to describe On Cinema, and the best I can do is this: what if…
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Six most outrageous moments in the 2022 On Cinema Oscar Special
Airing live in its second year on HEI Network, the 9th Annual On Cinema Oscar Special was pared down in a number of ways… most notably they had to film it outside, according to Tim, because Joe Estevez had mismanaged Tim’s HEI Ranch development and no sound stage had been built. Things only go downhill…
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Wait, which California city is the “adult Disneyland”?
SFGate recently ran an article that compared the small town of Solvang in Santa Barbara County to Disneyland. Although the comparison was seemingly intended to be positive they took a lot of heat for this clearly questionable take. Go ahead and read the article… and then think about it for a second. If the criteria…
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