Matt Baume

A new video goes live tomorrow, Sunday, at noon pacific! Click here to watch the video. Hit the "notify" bell and you'll get a heads-up when it goes live! It's about James Burrows -- the TV director who elevated sitcoms to an art form with shows like Cheers, Frasier, Taxi, The Mary Tyler Moore Show,

One of the best-written sitcoms of the 1990s never was broadcast: Gloria Vane. It's an incredibly funny show, it's got an amazing cast, it's surprisingly queer, and yet it never went to series. And I think that's actually a good thing. For this week's bonus video, we're diving into this long-lost si

Recently somebody asked me, "when was the first sitcom?" And I started to answer multiple times before I realized that there's a story about sitcom history that goes back a lot further than you might think. So in this week's bonus video, I want to think a bit about what makes something a sitcom -- a

Hello there! I'm chugging away on multiple videos for you right now -- one about Roy Cohn and Angels in America; and another about the 2013 British sitcom Vicious. For this week's bonus video, I've got some fun backstage stories from the stars of Vicious, the always-iconic Sir Ian and Sir Derek, reg

My guest on this week's Sewers of Paris podcast left his old life behind to chase dreams of freedom with the love of his life. Buck Jones was working a corporate job with a homophobic boss when he and his then-boyfriend, now-husband sold their home and moved overseas to open a little café in Paris.