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Watch as bastions of alterna-Jays and wannabe-Daves try to out-snark each other! Thrill as Tom Green battles the late-night TV glut, armed only with a pair of googly eyes and a mile-wide sociopathic streak!
By Heather Havrilesky
July 19, 2003
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Want the dimwitted fun of reality TV without wasting hours of your life watching crap? VH1's "Reality Wrap-Up" is here to save your day!
By Heather Havrilesky
June 12, 2003
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MTV's "Fraternity Life" brings back all the boneheaded bluster and enforced insularity of campus Greeks and their semi-anarchic pack mentality.
By Heather Havrilesky
April 17, 2003
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A bootleg copy of her bomb-throwing "American Life" video proves provocative -- but not nearly as disturbing as her decision to yank it.
By Heather Havrilesky
April 3, 2003
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America's fave TV family is back -- and ready to prove they can survive George W. Bush, Greta Van Susteren and whatever other horrors fate may bring them.
By Carina Chocano
November 27, 2002
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Whimpering existential wimp-thug David Blaine lays his cojones on the scales against cackling, criminally irreverent feces-diver Johnny Knoxville. Knoxville's have more heft.
By Cintra Wilson
May 21, 2002
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In MTV's smash hit "The Osbournes," George W.'s favorite Satan-worshiping metal maniac is just a frazzled, law-abiding dad.
By Carina Chocano
April 11, 2002
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A "Real World" star's sexual hijinks cause some grief for her brother -- a Daschle speechwriter whose colleagues are decidedly unamused.
By Jake Tapper
April 4, 2002
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In times of war, the counterculture halts at the water's edge!
By Carina Chocano
January 3, 2002
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The wacked-out singer has a Halloween special that's a fright, but not the way he intended. Plus: Emeril loses 10 pounds of scary fat and, on MTV, a crazed fan is allowed to run amok, Mandy Moore style.
By Carina Chocano
October 31, 2001
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At the MTV Video Music Awards, it was all about the product. And Jamie Foxx wasn't funny. Calling Andy Dick!
By Eric Boehlert
September 7, 2001
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A day in the life of MTV's "Total Request Live."
By Sarah Kendzior
August 29, 2001
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Total Request Live is billed as an exercise in music fan democracy, but one record label is doing its best to rig the election.
By Eric Boehlert
August 28, 2001
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Salon's TV picks for Wednesday, Aug. 1, 2001
By Joyce Millman
August 1, 2001
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The show that spawned reality television comes back for its 10th season, forgetting the lessons it taught everyone else.
By Andy Dehnart
July 3, 2001
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Dingy divas and their benign boy toys have got new clothes and lots of attitude, but their message is old and in the way.
By Janelle Brown
February 5, 2001
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Should kids be held responsible when their reenactment of TV shows ends in catastrophe?
By Dawn MacKeen
February 2, 2001
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MTV's newest reality show, "Fear," terrifies with the most frightening thing on earth -- nothing at all.
By Andy Dehnart
October 27, 2000
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The view from the press tent: Skimpy clothes! Arrogant stars! Britney Spears' jiggling ass!
By Jeff Stark
September 8, 2000
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Heartbreaking interviews of staggering inanity with wannabe VJs.
By Carina Chocano
April 29, 2000
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The Sex Pistols were one of the 20th century's best bands -- even if they (and we) were too dumb to know it.
By Cintra Wilson
April 13, 2000
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Long ago, a young girl watched "Goonies" and was smitten with one of the actors. Years later, she hunts him down and they end up ...
By Norah Pierson
April 12, 2000
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The new reality series "Making the Band" exposes the emasculating truth about boy bands.
By Joyce Millman
April 3, 2000
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In a booze-besotted Broadway battle, a trendy young MTV baby with a bad bleach job takes on "A Moon for the Misbegotten."
By Cintra Wilson
March 30, 2000
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It took 18 years for MTV to air 1 million videos. How long will the next million take? We do the math.
By Andy Dehnart
March 1, 2000
It's talk-show gridlock!
Reality rapture
"The Real World," with beer bongs
The Madonna video you can't see on MTV
Stardom hasn't spoiled "The Osbournes"
Men who hurt themselves for a living
Herman Munster, rock god
Michael Jackson scares me!
Rock stars for sale!
Carson, Courtney and the ultimate shout-out
Stuffing MTV's ballot box
Sluts and teddy bears
Don't try this at home
Boo!
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