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BBC Films will pay homage Laurel and Hardy with a new movie re-enacting the famous comedy duo’s final stage tour in 1953, played on the big screen by Steve Coogan as Stan Laurel and John C. Reilly as Oliver Hardy. Jon S. Baird will direct Stan & Ollie, with a …
You’ve seen Tim and Eric on tour before, throwing food into the crowd and creating comic mayhem wherever they go. But what’ll happen when Oscar-nominated actor John C. Reilly joins them on the road for five weeks this fall? Well, when it’s not Reilly but his character, Dr. Steve Brule, …
Of all the awesome and great things about Adult Swim’s late-night spoofery Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! (2007-2010), perhaps the sketches that inspired the most awe came when Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim ceded the spotlight to Dr. Steve Brule, the oafish expert of nothing, curious about everything …
Say what you will about whether Tim & Eric’s Adult Swim series was an “Awesome Show” or a “Great Job” or something else altogether. Their show within a show, Dr. Steve Brule’s “Check It Out” — starring John C. Reilly — is pretty genius. And now you can own the …
