A collection of skits that make fun of television. Everything from commercials to the nightly news are spoofed. Chevy Chase makes a brief (as well as his debut), appearance.

Ken Shapiro, writer and director “The Groove Tube” and “Modern Problems,” died of cancer Saturday in Las Cruces, N.M. He was 76. Shapiro’s 1974 independent film, a collection of skits called “The ...

Seven in 1967, Aniko Bodroghkozy wanted to be a hippie. Not the ones who scared her during a family drive around Yorkville, Toronto’s answer to Haight-Ashbury. But sunnier versions who appeared on ...

`I won’t say this is the funniest film you’ll see,” wrote New York Post critic Archer Winston about “The Groove Tube” in 1974. “But I do say it quite clearly marks the emergence of a comedy group that ...

NEW YORK — Ken Shapiro, a former child television actor whose hit 1974 film, “The Groove Tube,” anticipated “Saturday Night Live” by a year with sketches that wickedly satirized TV, died Nov. 18 at ...

There's a whole world under the surface and only Ron has any idea about it. And sometimes the two worlds collide, and sometimes they don't. Ron holds them at arm's length from each other. Watch every ...

The influential and hilarious 1974 spoof of television marked the movie debuts of Chevy Chase and Richard Belzer. By Mike Barnes Senior Editor Ken Shapiro, who directed, produced, co-wrote and starred ...

Ken Shapiro, director, writer, and star of the independent sketch comedy film The Groove Tube, died on Nov. 18 at his home in Los Cruces, N.M. after a battle with cancer. He was 76. Born in Newark, ...