munchman: ‘All My Children’ and ‘One Life to Live’ Could Relaunch in January

Okay, okay, so I’m a huge, erm, Susan Lucci fan. So what? Does that mean I lose all my cred?

I’m thrilled, I tells ya, thrilled, to learn the following:

Susan Lucci soap returns-maybe read article

munchman: Using YouTube to Brag About Robbing a Bank Might Be a Mistake

Yeah, we know this story is all over the interwebs, but it’s a slow news day, especially in showbiz. See, everybody who’s anybody is on vacation, and has been, since Thanksgiving and won’t be back in the proverbial saddle (AKA the casting couch) till after January 1st.

The A-Listers, and those behind-the-scenes types who control the destinies of said A-Listers (studio heads, attorneys, managers, agents, accountants) are all in Hawaii. read article

munchman: Unbelievable Message from an Anti-Women Editor

Hey, I can be as full of crap as the next guy, but not this next guy:

This really shocked me: read article

munchman reads “What Are You Laughing At?”

Ken Levine says this is the best comedy writing book evah…and who are we to disagree?

by Ken Levine

If anybody ever had great credentials for a book about comedy – what it is, what it ain’t – Dan O’Shannon, Emmy winning showrunner of MODERN FAMILY, former showrunner of FRASIER, former executive producer of CHEERS is the guy. His approach – analyzing the “comedic event” as opposed to examining joke structure, makes you wonder why anybody ever even thought of looking at what’s funny another way. To O’Shannon, context is everything…and he’s convinced me of it too.

With that in mind: read article