This Splitsider article about the time David Letterman had 13 cameras in his studio came out pretty good, and, if nothing else, it reminded me to watch this clip on YouTube, which is the best:
Before there was The Dick Van Dyke Show there was Head of the Family staring Carl Reiner. It didn’t get picked up. Read my new article on Splitsider to get my analysis on why that might be.
I wrote an article about Johnny Carson’s final episodes on The Tonight Show. It came out pretty darn good, if I do say so myself. Why, there’s even a few clips. Click here and then read it, please.
Be like Albert Brooks and read this article I wrote about his early short films.
I wrote an article for Splitsider about an unaired pilot from 1962 I found that was written by Woody Allen and is all about a struggling improv group in NYC’s Greenwich Village.
I never expected to see all those words in one sentence either.
This one is a good one. I found a segment of The Steve Allen Show that the sponsor wouldn’t let on the air because Lenny Bruce used a certain four-letter word that was too shocking for TV audiences. Check it out.
I write about Letterman a lot for these things, but that’s because nobody (besides Ernie Kovacs whose stuff, unfortunately, is mostly lost to time) played with the form as much as him. This one was fun.
For the title of my newest article on Splitsider about a show featuring a young Jason Bateman, I reused a really stupid joke that I originally wrote for my site in 2008.
“It’s Your Move” may have been a good show when it started, but unfortunately by the time I they got to their final episode, anything good had been drained from it.
Ramsey Ess is a writer and comedian living in Brooklyn. He is a weekly columnist on old TV for Splitsider, podcaster, and a freelance writer for late night television.







