NBC Photo: Scott Garfield I’ve thought for some time that I should have a term for a show that I generally admire, enjoy whenever I by chance end up watching it, then promptly thereafter forget its existence for months, for no reason I can satisfyingly explain. Maybe I should call this kind of show a [...]

Karol, with the Jeff Goldblum trap of death. NBC Photo: Hopper Stone “Is the impossible possible?” asked Tim Vincent, host of NBC’s Phenomenon. Why, yes. Yes it is. I had expected the live TV “mentalist” competition to be bombastic, cheesy, over-the-top and ludicrous–none of which adjectives, by the way, is an insult when you’re talking [...]

Maybe he really does have something to laugh about: according to a poll by Rasmussen Reports, in a three-way presidential race with Hillary Clinton and Rudy Giuliani, Stephen Colbert would pull 13% of the vote. (Hat tip to my friends-I’ve-never-met at fellow TIME blog Real Clear Politics, who pointed to this the other day, but [...]