With a background in theater, soaps, and indies, Peter Vack's major TV comedic debut is a slight change of pace for the USC grad and native New Yorker, who was reciting Shakespeare with seasoned actors while his high-school peers toiled away with the Sparknotes.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 02/02/12

Happy Monday! Here's our compendium of pop-culture news you may have missed while you were doing more important things over the weekend.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 09/12/11

Already a hero to oddballs everywhere, Michael Showalter takes on the memoir in the new book Mr. Funny Pants. The meta, scatter-logical autobiography follows Showalter's attempt to write the next great memoir—only the book tends to detour into much funnier, if less nostalgic, territory.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 03/04/11

A history of the last three years, told through expensive, often tight pants.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 08/21/09

Out of the Swedish mist came Alexander Skarsgard, the evil, increasingly nuanced vampire leader of True Blood. He sucks blood; he stars in Lady Gaga's video for "Paparazzi" as an abusive, ill-fated boyfriend; he gets recognized by fans on the street over the course of our interview.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 08/11/09