Television | Brady Carlson

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Saturday Night Live Did A Special In New Orleans, And It Got Complicated

Anything can happen on live TV - sometimes anything can NOT happen too.

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In Lewis Carroll’s Time, A Real Disease Led To “Mad Hatters”

The phrase “mad as a hatter” may have originally been a play on words, but the phenomenon was very real.

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How The Laugh Track Made TV Jokes Seem Funny Even If They Really Weren’t

Today in 1910, the birthday of Charlie Douglass, who popularized the use of prerecorded laughter to help TV comedies seem more funny. Amirite folks?

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The Real-Life Festivus Holiday Was Maybe Even Weirder Than The One On “Seinfeld”

Long before it was on TV, a family in New York state had its own holiday.

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To Make A Cold War Documentary, NBC Funded An Escape Tunnel Under The Berlin Wall

NBC's documentary "The Tunnel" came at a pivotal moment in the Cold War.

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How Bullwinkle Once Managed To Honk Off A Lot Of TV-Owning Parents

It was an extremely irreverent show, especially for its time. And that’s why one of the jokes ended up getting the producers in trouble.

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Pedestrianism, The Enormously Popular 19th Century Sport Where People Went For Really Long Walks

You could draw 10,000 paying spectators to an arena to see a bunch of people walk around in a loop for hours.

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KISS Made A TV Movie Where They Fought Their Evil Clones At An Amusement Park

“KISS Meets The Phantom Of The Park" was meant to be a big moment for the band, but that's not quite how it worked out.

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The Who’s American TV Debut Really Blew Up, Especially Keith Moon’s Drums

Nobody watching that episode of the show was going to forget an introduction like that.

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In Sweden And Finland, The Thursday Before Easter Is The Time For Trick-Or-Treating Witches

We're just a few days away from Easter for many people around the world. For kids in Finland and Sweden, the Thursday before Easter is itself a pretty important time: it’s when they turn themselves into witches.

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Turn-On, The TV Show That Got Pulled Off The Air During Its Premiere

Today in 1969 was the premiere of Turn-On, a show that the ABC network more or less turned off during its first episode.

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“Dinner For One,” The British Comedy Sketch That’s A New Year’s Eve Tradition In Germany

Watching TV on the last night of the year? That's fine; in fact, there’s a tradition on German TV of showing a classic comedy sketch every December 31.

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