Alec Baldwin’s Trump wears thin on SNL, but Kate McKinnon never does
In the Mom On Pop podcast, Bonney Teti—mother of A.V. Club TV host John Teti—shares her unfiltered thoughts on the pop culture of the day.
Larry David is a genius and Miss Manners poops ice cubes
In the Mom On Pop podcast, Bonney Teti—mother of A.V. Club TV host John Teti—shares her unfiltered thoughts on the pop culture of the day.
The Mom On Pop podcast returns with Mom’s review of American Vandal
In the Mom On Pop podcast, Bonney Teti—mother of A.V. Club TV host John Teti—shares her unfiltered thoughts on the pop culture of the day.
The A.V. Club Hosted By John Teti... come on down!
The A.V. Club Hosted By John Teti is about to go on hiatus for a month, so at the production office, we’ve been treating this week’s episode—episode 20!—as our “midseason finale.” To send us into the break with a bang, we headed to CBS Television City in Hollywood, where we spent a day behind the scenes of the…
Rhymefest talks Chicago, Kanye, and the spirit of community
For The A.V. Club TV show, host John Teti interviewed Rhymefest about the state of music in Chicago. The rapper, writer, and social activist had more to say than we could fit in the episode, so here’s the unabridged conversation in written form, alongside some outtakes. The A.V. Club Hosted By John Teti airs Thursday…
Tonight on The A.V. Club TV show, we inhale pure sweat with Kristen Schaal at E3
For this week’s edition of The A.V. Club Hosted By John Teti—the A.V. Club TV show that I host, as helpfully evinced by the title—we left our Chicago studio behind and traveled to Los Angeles for the Electronic Entertainment Expo. This trade show, better known as E3, is the biggest event on the video game calendar, at…
The A.V. Club will soon exist in TV show form
Last year, my A.V. Club colleagues and I surveyed the media landscape and reached a troubling conclusion: There simply aren’t enough television shows. To remedy that shortfall, we’re taking matters into our own hands. We’re launching a TV program called The A.V. Club, which has a nice ring to it. The show premieres…
Roger Goodell is right—that was awesome
Block & Tackle is John Teti’s column about pro football.
Let’s get ready to feast on the Super Bowl losers’ sorrow
Block & Tackle is John Teti’s column about pro football.
Don’t forget the kickers
Block & Tackle is John Teti’s column about pro football.
At least the playoffs can’t get any worse
Block & Tackle is John Teti’s column about pro football.
In the playoffs, every episode is a season finale
Block & Tackle is John Teti’s column about pro football.
Fancy lecterns, Antonio Brown’s dance, and other NFL stocking stuffers
Block & Tackle is John Teti’s column about pro football.
The best and worst swag of 2016
The A.V. Club receives a ludicrous quantity of promotional junk from studio marketing people who are eager to remind us that their movies and TV shows exist. We stockpile these items in our high-security swag vault (read: a rickety bookcase behind Ignatiy Vishnevetsky’s desk). Then every December, Josh Modell and John…
The tale of the invalid invalid invalid invalid fair-catch signal signal
Block & Tackle is John Teti’s column about pro football.
Silicon Valley’s Jimmy O. Yang is Abraham Lincoln’s wingman
You may know Jimmy O. Yang as Silicon Valley’s perpetually downtrodden intern, and you may soon know him from the upcoming Mark Wahlberg thriller Patriots Day, which hits theaters in January (not the December release date Jimmy cites during the taping). But if time travel were possible, you’d know him as the guy who…
Dipping into the Block & Tackle mailbag
Block & Tackle is John Teti’s column about pro football.
The dead-eyed horrors of NFL holiday merchandise
Block & Tackle is John Teti’s column about pro football.
The collected works of Phil Simms, pro football’s poet laureate
Block & Tackle is John Teti’s column about pro football.
Aparna Nancherla rates the excuses of less dependable comedians
Aparna Nancherla is a comedian who visited the Pick A Choice studio fresh off the release of her new comedy album, Just Putting It Out There. Aside from being a funny and thoughtful player of our game, Aparna was also quite punctual, which is more than can be said for a number of comics who failed to show up for their…
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