Garry Shandling’s legendary pickup basketball games almost derailed Borat, helped found Funny or Die, and other memories
There’s a fun new oral history piece out from ESPN The Magazine today about the late great...
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Tag: Adam McKay
Will Ferrell and Adam McKay launch 11-episode retrospective on 10 years of Funny or Die
“It was 2007, and at this point, the Internet was basically just a place for perverts to...
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Highlights from the 2016 Writers Guild Awards
The Writers Guild of America held simultaneous award ceremonies in New York City and Los Angeles...
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Stephen Colbert’s nostalgic week with fellow Second City alums Steve Carell and Adam McKay
This week found Stephen Colbert welcoming a star and the director of the upcoming dark comedy...
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Brent White and the key to film editing: Finding the funny in hours of improvisation
How does a Mormon guy from Orem, Utah, wind up spending endless hours sifting through R-rated...
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Scenes from a 1995 TV pilot starring Del Close, Amy Poehler and Matt Dwyer: RVTV
Before Parks and Recreation, before SNL, before the Upright Citizens Brigade set up shop in New...
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IFC orders new “Spoils” six-episode miniseries from Will Ferrell, Adam McKay and Funny or Die
The post-WWII era shall be spoofed again by author “Eric Jonrosh” and an all-star...
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Anchorman 2, Take Two: Same plot, all new jokes in “Super-Sized Rated-R Version” re-release
Before Anchorman 2 found its way into movie theaters this past Christmas amid a flurry of...
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SNL co-head writer Colin Jost promoted up Late Night chain of command to Weekend Update co-anchor
Remember when Saturday Night Live’s head writers stayed behind the camera? Lo, those were...
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IFC’s multi-generational miniseries parody, “The Spoils of Babylon”
Meeting today’s TV Critics Association in Pasadena, the cast of IFC’s new miniseries...
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SNL #39.8 RECAP: Host Paul Rudd, musical guest One Direction
With promotion overload this week featuring the cast of Anchorman 2, and Paul Rudd already hosting...
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Ben & Jerry’s offers Ron Burgundy’s Scotchy Scotch Scotch ice cream to promote “Anchorman 2”
Stay classy, Ben & Jerry’s! The ice cream makers from Vermont unveiled their latest...
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