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Denis Leary has brought the “Dogs Playing Poker” paintings to life, sort of, through a new series of animated shorts that began running this month as part of FOX’s NFL playoff pregame coverage. Co-written by Denis Leary and Jim Margolis, the shorts feature the voices of Leary (Brownie), Elaine Hendrix …
Emmy Award- and Golden Globe-nominated actor and comedian Denis Leary (Rescue Me, Animal Kingdom) will star in FOX’s upcoming limited series, A MOODY CHRISTMAS, scheduled to air this December on FOX. In the single-camera, holiday-themed event comedy, Leary will play Sean Moody, Sr., the beloved patriarch of the Moodys, a …
Denis Leary isn’t afraid of being an asshole. It’s the title of his longtime hit comedy single, and Leary has even updated it with the times. This August, Leary changed his 1990s tune to “Trump’s An Asshole” for a performance on The Late Late Show with James Corden. And on …
Denis Leary’s first big comedy song celebrated how he’s an asshole. More than two decades later, Leary updated the song with a parody version targeting Donald Trump. Leary appeared on The Late Late Show with James Corden on Wednesday night, dressed as Bill Clinton accompanied by Corden as Hillary Clinton …
Robert Kelly plays the Heathens drummer Bam Bam on Denis Leary’s FX series, Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll, which begins its second season this Thursday, and popularized the double-meal deal, Bang Bang, playing Louis CK’s brother Bobby on the award-winning FX series, Louie. He hilariously chastised me for combining the two things, Bam Bam! …
IFC’s Benders follows a group of adult men who act like little boys when it comes to their recreational hockey league in New York City. It’s created by Tom Selliti and Jim Serpico and executive produced by them with Denis Leary. They’re all avid hockey fans and players themselves. But …
FX’s Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll rolls out July 16, 2015, but a month ahead of the premiere, the cable network is giving us a special sneak peek at the band at the heart of the series with its first music video. This is “Die Trying,” featuring Liz Gillies and Denis Leary. They play …
It may be the Stanley Cup Finals in Chicago and Tampa Bay, but in New York City, it’s only the beginning for the cast of IFC’s new sitcom, Benders. Lindsey Broad, Chris Distefano, Mark Gessner, Ruy Iskander and Andrew Schulz have been cast as the starting line for the eight-episode …
IFC will get into the rink by year’s end, ordering up eight half-hour episodes of Benders, a sitcom about an amateur hockey league executive produced by Denis Leary and his Apostle colleagues Jim Serpico and Tom Sellitti. Production starts this spring, with an air date of late 2015. Serpico and …
Denis Leary was a star of FX’s first-generation rise of original dramas through seven seasons of Rescue Me. In 2015, Leary will return to a leading role on the cable network as the creator and star of Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll, ordered today by FX to a 10-episode first season. Filmed in NYC, it’ll …
