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 ...

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 ...

For some, it's the last real taste of innocence, and the first real taste of life.

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 ...

LAS CRUCES, N.M. (AP) — Ken Shapiro, a former child actor and director of the 1974 movie “The Groove Tube,” has died. He was 75. His daughter, Rosy Rosenkrantz, said Wednesday that Shapiro died on Nov ...