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5 Hours A Day —Remember the 3 dudes from the beginning of “Super Troopers”? Imagine them cleaned up, employed, cleverer and less scared, then give them a TV show — you’ve just conceived of...
View Article“Workaholics” season 2: tomorrow
5 Hours A Day —Tuesday at 10:30 is the season premiere of Comedy Central’s “Workaholics.” They’ve been previewing some episodes, in .gif and video form, over at the show’s Tumblr. Instead, we offer...
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5 Hours A Day —January 3: Wednesday (3:30): Nailed!
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5 Hours A Day —If you needed proof the Emmys are a joke, I want to remind you that “The Daily Show” has won the variety show/late-night award every year since 2003, even after it spent the last few...
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5 Hours A Day — This was the week that we all learned about bundling — channel bundling, not the historic Pennsylvania Dutch courtship practice. It was also the week that a dispute with a single pay-TV...
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