The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Seth MacFarlane’s foul-mouthed teddy bear of a movie, Ted, has earned more than $500 million in box-office receipts around the world since hitting your nearby cineplex in June, despite its R rating by the MPAA. Remarkable? Certainly. But tops in the business? Not quite. Not yet. Top 10 Rated-R comedy …
Viacom can keep feting Eddie Murphy once a year if they really must. It’s all good by us. Last year, Comedy Central and the Viacom network of channels presented Eddie Murphy with an Icon Award. This month, it was Spike TV paying tribute to Murphy with an all-star collection of …
What’s happening in the comedy world now… Comedy Bang! Bang! is ending its 10-year-run as a live stand-up showcase in Los Angeles with a big bang of its own, as founder/producer Scott Aukerman wraps up his involvement with it as a live show with IFC’s “2012 Comedy Bang! Bang! Nativity Pageant.” …
What’s happening in the comedy world now… Brandon T. Jackson officially has landed the lead role in the CBS TV reboot of Beverly Hills Cop — Jackson will play the son of Axel Foley (Eddie Murphy). The TV series will catch back up with Foley and his son, a generation …
When Eddie Murphy first took Chris Rock under his wing in the 1980s, Rock experienced more than a few firsts in his life. First airplane ride. First time tasting shrimp. First time with a white woman. Let Rock tell it. This is a clip from the upcoming all-star tribute to …
Mike Epps will play Richard Pryor on the big screen, after all. It just won’t be in a movie about the legendary stand-up comedian and actor. Instead, Epps will play Pryor in Nina, a biopic about singer Nina Simone that stars Zoe Saldana. Pryor opened for Simone during the singer’s early …
What’s happening in the comedy world now… Spike TV announced its all-star lineup to celebrate Eddie Murphy’s three decades as a comedy superstar. Chris Rock, Samuel L. Jackson, Tracy Morgan, Arsenio Hall, Brett Ratner, Charlie Murphy, Jeffrey Katzenberg, and Martin Lawrence will participate in Eddie Murphy: One Night Only, which as …
Eddie Murphy may or may not ever follow through on his promise to make a comeback to the stand-up comedy stage. But one thing is certain to happen in 2012. Thirty years after Eddie Murphy became a superstar through his comedy performances as a stand-up (the concert film, “Delirious”), movie …
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 …
Eddie Murphy completed his promotional rounds Friday night with an appearance on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, which ended up being a mini-seminar on Murphy’s SNL tenure, thanks to Fallon’s SNL tenure. Hooray for tenures! Roll the clips. https://www.hulu.com/watch/297203/late-night-with-jimmy-fallon-eddie-murphy-part-1 In the second clip, he talks about returning to stand-up and …
