Day: May 22, 2015

What’s more criminal? Throwing out David Letterman’s Late Show set, or dumpster-diving for it?

What’s more criminal? Throwing out David Letterman’s Late Show set, or dumpster-diving for it?

Posted by | May 22, 2015 | , |

Some fans of David Letterman certainly were caught off guard Thursday when they saw construction crews ripping out the seats and the set from inside the Ed Sullivan Theatre and tossing it into dumpsters. Why wouldn’t they sell the pieces at auction, as Stephen Colbert had with his Comedy Central studio when his show ended? Another fan gamely went to eBay this week with three large backdrop pieces he’d scored when the CBS Late Show had parted with its original 1993 set. As this video explains, Mike Bonanno from The Yes Men “rescued” these set pieces, and now, two decades...

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Jenny Zigrino’s late-night TV debut on Conan

Jenny Zigrino’s late-night TV debut on Conan

Posted by | May 22, 2015 | |

Jenny Zigrino came close to winning Funniest Wins last summer on TBS, and now Thursday night she returned to the station, this time to make her late-night TV debut as a stand-up comedian on Conan. Zigrino came up with a song you can singalong to, if you’d like, about having a friend with benefits. In Zigrino’s case, though, her beneficial friend is quite unusual. Also unusual, two profanities thrown down! I give this clip two [BLEEPS]...

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David Letterman’s TV finale montage, frame by frame

David Letterman’s TV finale montage, frame by frame

Posted by | May 22, 2015 | , , |

Did the six-minute finale montage at the end of Late Show with David Letterman — expertly synchronized to a live performance of “Everlong” by Foo Fighters — make you wish you could hit the pause button more than a few times while still listening to the song? Well, then, thank superfan Adam Nedeff already. Nedeff posted individual screencaps from 537 frames of the Letterman finale montage on his Facebook. Now you simply can open that link into a new window and take a gander at your favorite moments while listening to the fighters of foo in this window...

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Photos from the set of Netflix’s “Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp”

Photos from the set of Netflix’s “Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp”

Posted by | May 22, 2015 | , |

How do you pull off a prequel to a cult comedy movie 15 years later? It’s not exactly movie magic, but it’ll be funny. “We thought it was funny that in the original we played a bunch of thirty year olds playing teenagers. Now we’re in our forties and our characters are even younger,” said Michael Showalter, who co-created Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp with David Wain. Wain directed the eight-episode series for Netflix — coming July 31 — and taking place two months before the final day of camp, depicted in the 2001 film. The cast also...

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Meet the cast of Hulu’s “The Hotwives of Las Vegas”

Meet the cast of Hulu’s “The Hotwives of Las Vegas”

Posted by | May 22, 2015 | , , |

Casey Wilson told Seth Meyers earlier this year that Hulu’s Hotwives franchise would follow the American Horror Story anthology model, using the same actresses over and over but recasting them in new roles. So whom from The Hotwives of Orlando will be rejoining Wilson for the next installment, The Hotwives of Las Vegas, when it streams weekly on Hulu starting Aug. 18, 2015? Here’s the cast of characters populating The Hotwives of Las Vegas: Callie Silversan (Erinn Hayes) – A sensuous, mysterious, raven-haired witch. Denise Funt (Danielle Schneider) – Neurotic, needy and recently divorced. Ivanka Silversan (Andrea Savage) – A...

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