The Definitive Guide to Comedy
The Academy Awards will have a brand-new host for 2019: Kevin Hart. Hart broke the news himself tonight via social media. “For years I have been asked if I would ever Host the Oscars and my answer was always the same…I said that it would be the opportunity of a …
2019 will mark the 35th anniversary of This Is Spinal Tap, and the 25th anniversary of Reality Bites. Both cult classics will celebrate these milestones with retrospective screenings, panels, and even a concert as part of the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival, happening April 24-May 5. This Is Spinal Tap stars and creators Christopher Guest, Michael …
As animation and voiceover work becomes ever more commonplace among mainstream TV and movie fare, it’s more necessary to work out fair labor contracts. SAG-AFTRA members overwhelmingly voted earlier this month on a new deal. Results announced this week revealed 95 percent yes votes, 5 percent in the minority voting …
All biopics start from a grain of truth, the essential building blocks of the subject, and then weave an imaginative backstory complete with a heartwarming or inspirational narrative arc. A Futile and Stupid Gesture is not that kind of biopic. Certainly, the period piece directed by David Wain does cover …
“I just don’t want to be her age, playing her,” Tyler Perry said of his famous alter-ego, Madea, who has starred in six major motion pictures, with a seventh on the way in 2019. Perry broke the news earlier this week doing press for his latest movie, Nobody’s Fool, which …
A feature film biopic on comedy legend George Carlin is in the works, with Jerry Hamza, Carlin’s estate executor and former manager, on board as a producer. The Jackal Group (currently producing an animated version of The Addams Family) has acquired the film rights, and have hired Stan Chervin (Moneyball) to …
Satirical publication The Onion began printing on actual newsprint back in August 1988. The staff picked up and left their original home in Madison, Wisc., where they had begun while attending The University of Wisconsin, and moved to New York City in 2001. So they were still new New Yorkers …
Every year since 1982’s A Midsummer Night’s Sex Comedy, Woody Allen has directed and released a feature film. Until now. Not only is Allen not working on any projects at the moment, but his most recent film, A Rainy Day In New York — which wrapped in November 2017 — …
Michael Jr.’s newest comedy special will be released nationwide in movie theaters as a one-night-only event. Tickets for the Oct. 18 screenings of “Michael Jr.’s MORE THAN FUNNY” can be purchased online at Fathom Events and participating theater box offices. “I’m so excited about this comedy special—when we were filming …
When I sat down with Ralphie May and Lahna Turner to podcast in the green room of Gotham Comedy Club back in March 2015, a woman with a camera filmed the whole thing. They planned to make a documentary about themselves as a comedy couple and a family. Instead, they …
