Tina Fey, another Weekend Update alumnus, said in 2008 that "The Daily Show" was guilty of clapter comedy:

"When I came back from that trip and then I didn’t hear from Jim, that’s why about a month, five or six weeks after Weird Science came out, I got this offer to do Police Academy 2 and I’d already given up on doing Aliens."

"When I came back from that trip and then I didn’t hear from Jim, that’s why about a month, five or six weeks after Weird Science came out, I got this offer to do Police Academy 2 and I’d already given up on doing Aliens."

UGA, represent.

"American Idol' didn't debut until the summer of 2002, but by the summer of '01 I remember a lot of people saying, "This reality-TV trend won't last much longer, right?"

Thank you for bringing that up. Last week the A.V. Club posted a story about a Joel Silver tribute film from the early '90s (http://www.avclub.com/artic…

See also: Albert Brooks in "I'll Do Anything" (1994), released five months after "True Romance," and Steve Martin in "Grand Canyon" (1991). Moranis basically repeated his Joel Silver impression, sans wig and beard, in "Head Office" (1985):

That's Lawrence Gordon, Joel Silver's former producing partner, playing the mad scientist in the Silver tribute film. It's not Silver himself, who shows up later, in the clip from "Who Framed Roger Rabbit."

Never mind — it WAS "Vampire in Brooklyn." Sorry about that. Could've sworn …

I think David Spade made that "Hollywood Minute" joke about Murphy around the time of "The Distinguished Gentleman's" release in late '92, for what it's worth. By the time "Vampire in Brooklyn" came out, Spade's "SNL" appearances were limited — by Don Ohlmeyer, supposedly — to those brief "Spade in America" segments…