The A.V. Club Hosted By John Teti had its season finale recently, and we had so much good stuff in the episode that we couldn’t air it all. Here, staff writer Samantha Berkman talks about the perfect ending to a realistic teen romance, on a show that ended too quickly: My So-Called Life.
Tonight is the final episode of season one of The A.V. Club Hosted By John Teti. All season the show has delivered exciting pop culture news, interviews, and segments to TV. You already know this if you have been following the show, but if you haven’t, tonight is your last chance to hop on the A.V. Club show train…
A couple of months back, host John Teti fulfilled a lifelong dream by spending the day on set at The Price Is Right, which he then turned into a lovely half-hour of television (Thursday nights on Fusion!). In this outtake, John interviews the woman who won a Showcase Showdown the day he was there. She’s excited. The…
Every Thursday night, The A.V. Club Hosted By John Teti tackles some of the biggest topics of the day in pop culture. In this sketch, Teti and his staff tackle one of the most contentious issues in animation: How many fingers should a character have? The answer is not a simple one. The A.V. Club Hosted By John Teti…
Actor-comedian Maria Bamford is the first guest ever to be invited back for a second shot at our low-stakes game show, Pick-A-Choice. Bamford was a guest recently on The A.V. Club Hosted By John Teti, and she stuck around to play with us once again, and clearly the experience has paid off. Her battle of wits with John…
On a recent episode of The A.V. Club Hosted By John Teti, John sat down with veteran comedian Jim Gaffigan for a chat about his busy, funny career. Naturally there was more interview than we could use on the show, so here’s an outtake in which Gaffigan talks about the difference between a “tight five” and the…
This week on this season’s penultimate episode of The A.V. Club, we dig into what pizza is racist and which is perhaps not in our Need To Must Know Essential headlines, and we bring on the holiday cheer with The A.V. Club’s own Erik Adams, who shares his theory on what TV shows celebrate each holiday best in our “TV…
Every week, John Teti hosts The A.V. Club Hosted By John Teti—it’s right there in the name!—and on a recent episode, he makes a personal dream come true by visiting the set of The Price Is Right. In this exclusive outtake from that episode, John and TPIR host Drew Carey nerd out about a specific game on the show that…
Every Thursday on Fusion TV, our own John Teti hosts The A.V. Club Hosted By John Teti, a half-hour pop-culture extravaganza inspired by this very site. At the end of each episode, John asks his guests to tell him what to like, and in this web exclusive, he lured a writer from Onion Labs—The Onion’s creative-services…
Every episode of The A.V. Club Hosted By John Teti begins with a funny skit—what those in the industry might refer to as a “cold open”—that often pays homage to something happening in pop culture at that moment. In this one, John plays both himself and his down-on-his-luck twin brother, Donnie, in a nod to Fargo’s…
It’s a total teen takeover tonight on The A.V. Club. Teen Vogue editor-in-chief Elaine Welteroth stops by the studio for an interview with our beloved host, John Teti. Elaine’s passion for this generation of young women gives us all hope for the future. She discusses the directional changes she’s made for the…
Every week on The A.V. Club Hosted By John Teti, John finds at least one interesting culture-maker to chat with. A couple of weeks ago it was actor-director-poet Amber Tamblyn, who talked with him about her directorial debut, Paint It Black. In this outtake from the interview, she talks about the intersection between…
Paul Reiser is everywhere these days, with roles on Stranger Things season two, Red Oaks, and the upcoming show There’s... Johnny! He stopped by the L.A. studio of The A.V. Club Hosted By John Teti to chat about all those things and more, which hopefully you caught on last night’s episode. (You can always catch up on…
This week on The A.V. Club Hosted By John Teti, John Waters drops by our magic screen to give us his two cents on this week’s headlines and to tell us why he won’t be dressing up on Halloween. Later in the show, A.V. Club assistant editor Danette Chavez tells the uninitiated how to get into Star Trek in our latest…
In this outtake from Neil deGrasse Tyson’s fantastic interview on The A.V. Club TV show, the scientist confronts host John Teti with a frightening thought: What if the entirety of human existence ends up forgotten? It seems likely, doesn’t it? You can watch this and other interviews every Thursday night on The A.V.…
The A.V. Club Hosted By John Teti is back this evening with a new episode. This week on the show John interviews stand-up comedian, actor, writer, and producer Jim Gaffigan at the historic Chicago Theatre. Our series Gateways To Geekery is back, too, and this time A.V. Club food editor Kevin Pang takes John deep into…
Every week on The A.V. Club Hosted By John Teti, John asks writers to tell him what they like. In this web-only extra, assistant editor Danette Chavez heaps praise on the dramedy Better Things, starring Pamela Adlon in a Louie-esque self-portrayal. It’s a fantastic show, as you’ll hear Danette tell you in this video. …
On tonight’s episode, host John Teti plays Pick a Choice with comedian Ari Shaffir, the creator of Skeptic Tank, a podcast where he and guests get into the truths of humanity without omitting the fart jokes. John also publicly shames Harvey Weinstein for his decades of nightmarish behavior in the entertainment…
Every week on The A.V. Club Hosted By John Teti, John ends the show with some super-fast pop-culture picks. In this bonus segment, he gives Internet Culture Editor Clayton Purdom a minute to recommend a book—Thomas Pynchon’s prescient Bleeding Edge. Check out the show every Thursday, only on Fusion, for more pop…
In this bonus clip from The A.V. Club Hosted By John Teti—which airs Thursday nights on Fusion—John talks to comedian Ari Shaffir about the unhippest thing that he loves: the music of Pink. Shaffir’s latest stand-up special, Double Negative, is streaming now on Netflix. Here’s where you can watch The A.V. Club show.
