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With promotion overload this week featuring the cast of Anchorman 2, and Paul Rudd already hosting this weekend’s Saturday Night Live, and the fact that the movie stars and was written/directed by SNL alums, it was beyond inevitable that we’d see some crossover last Saturday night. We did. And then …
Stay classy, Ben & Jerry’s! The ice cream makers from Vermont unveiled their latest custom comedy flavor last night, and it’s a boozy doozy — hold the booze. Ron Burgundy’s Scotchy Scotch Scotch, available for a limited time in the United States and Canada, is a butterscotch ice cream with …
After a couple of straight low-down dirty teases, there’s an official honest-to-goodness movie trailer for Anchorman: The Legend Continues, featuring actual footage from the movie sequel that lands in a movie theater near you this Christmas. Will Ferrell, Paul Rudd, David Koechner, Steve Carell, Christina Applegate and more all return, …
Funny or Die continues to expand and evolve past its original mission — when was the last time you remember voting on a user-submitted video to “die” or stay online because it was “funny”? — as the company announced plans to launch a movie division. Wait. Don’t Chris Henchy, Adam …
Drunk History isn’t the first webseries to become a TV series, but it is among the more celebrated ones to make the jump. Comedy Central announced over the weekend at the TCA press tour that it had ordered eight half-hour episodes of “Drunk History” to air this summer. UPDATED: The …
Judd Apatow has been the biggest behind-the-scenes name in big-screen comedy for the past few years. But it’s only now, at the end of 2012, and the release of his latest semi-autobiographical film, This is 40, that CBS and 60 Minutes has served up a profile of the comedian-turned-filmmaker. Anderson …
What’s happening in the comedy world now… Paramount has announced a release date for Anchorman 2, and it’s exactly a year away: Dec. 20, 2013. Will Ferrell, Christina Applegate, Steve Carell, Paul Rudd and David Koechner are all back aboard for the sequel, Adam McKay once again directing. Judd Apatow’s …
The Kenny Powers you knew is dead. Long live Kenny Powers! Wait, what? Despite a seemingly satisfying conclusion to the trilogy story of the comeback of baseball relief pitcher Kenny Powers in season three this spring, HBO confirmed late Monday that it had ordered eight episodes for a fourth season …
Will Ferrell (friend of Conan O’Brien) made a surprise appearance last night on Conan in his “Ron Burgundy” character to make a very special announcement: He’s finally reached a deal with Paramount Pictures to make a sequel to the Anchorman movie. Here’s Ferrell in his stayest classiest San Diegoist to …
Over the summer, Gary Rudoren (co-author of Comedy By The Numbers) told me he had a brilliant idea for another comedy book. Rudoren wanted to publish an oral history of the Upright Citizens Brigade. But he said he was too busy for it. Turns out I was too busy to …
