The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Oh, the Golden Globes. The Pia Zadora of awards shows. How you make up such silly ideas in your heads about who delivered award-worthy work in TV and film, always determined most importantly by whom the Hollywood Foreign Press Association would like to dine and get drunk with each January. …
Just no. A million times no. The Farrelly Brothers went ahead and remade The Three Stooges, and even though we all asked them not to, they did it anyway. And in the first movie trailer, we see that they even found ways to make it worse than we had imagined. …
Following Louis CK’s debut of his stand-up concert film this year, Sundance is going even bigger, it seems, with comedy in 2012. Here is the full list of comedians and comedies you’ll see around Park City during January 2012. IN COMPETITION The Comedy / U.S.A. (Director: Rick Alverson, Screenwriters: Rick Alverson, …
Robert Weide achieved unprecedented access to Woody Allen over the past couple of years, and with it, produced this fantastic documentary about the 75-year-old (he turns 76 on Dec. 1) comedian-filmmaker’s life. So much footage from rare interviews with him from decades ago that you probably never saw nor remembered, …
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association decided to let Ricky Gervais take a third whack at them on live TV and bring him back as host of the Golden Globes in January 2012. Gervais famously has made waves in his past performances by mocking not only the celebrities in the room, …
In an odd twist of fate and Brett Ratner being Brett Ratner, we went from Tower Heist propelling Eddie Murphy’s comedy comeback to hosting the Academy Awards, to, well, none of those things materializing. And it’s still only November. Don’t believe the hype. First Ratner quit as Oscars co-producer. Then …
Puss in Boots is an animated movie spinoff from the Shrek franchise, and somehow, it managed to find a voice role for Zach Galifianakis, which means he made the late-night TV rounds (Hollywood edition) to help promote the film. First he showed up at Jimmy Kimmel Live. Wherein he discusses …
Hey kids of all ages, kids who love dancing, and kids who love the Upright Citizens Brigade. If you live anywhere near Austin, Texas, then you have the chance to see the UCB4’s latest feature film before everyone else, as Freak Dance premieres this weekend at the Austin Film Festival. …
“This is my last hit,” says Dave Attell between cigarette puffs, in typical self deprecating fashion. “No, Dave, The Gong Show was your last hit,” I reply. This is Attell’s next potential hit, and it goes back to something near and dear to the stand-up comedian: Pornography. Specifically, old porn. …
The full cast of Arrested Development reunited Sunday for the first time since FOX cancelled the critically beloved sitcom five years ago — and revealed a bombshell development. While everyone expected to hear news about a long-rumored AD movie, they heard creator Mitchell Hurwitz instead say that the movie would …
