New Tonight: ‘Blunt Talk’ on Starz
It’s always funny when someone with such a stentorian voices as Patrick Stewart lends itself to comedy. Tonight he does so as a cable news personality Walter Blunt, who seems…
Also on Saturday: Tig Notaro’s Comedy
Near the end of her deliberately-paced standup special at Boston’s Wilbur Thaeater, “Tig Notaro: Boyish Girl Interrupted” (HBO, 10 p.m.) does something completely disarming. The comic, a double mastectomy patient,…
Playlist 8-21-15
A very strange night for the return of Friday Night Rock for the first time in nearly a month, since the CD players were not working. That meant I didn't…