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Before Anchorman 2 found its way into movie theaters this past Christmas amid a flurry of promotional advertising, director Adam McKay boasted there were enough alternate takes and improvised jokes that could fill a second version of the movie. Now he’s backing up that boast. For real. Anchorman 2: The …
There have been more than a few parodies of the great feature film, her, including a very special version that aired on Saturday Night Live featuring Jonah Hill, the voice of Jonah Hill and a “Superbad” cameo as the surrogate. Before that aired, though, this showed up on YouTube. It’s …
Todd Barry was first, in March 2007. Almost seven years and more than 230 unique, intimate portraits later, Seth Olenick‘s work documenting comedians and comedic actors and actresses is preserved in bound manuscript with the publication of his weighty tome of a photography book, “Funny Business.” If you’re in New …
Judd Apatow appeared on Thursday’s Tonight Show with Jay Leno to promote Anchorman 2, but host and guest also took a couple of minutes to make it a Throwback Thursday. Way back 30 years, to 1983. When Apatow was in high school and interviewing dozens of comedians for his self-produced …
Judd Apatow and Maria Bamford reflected on the 1990s for Vanity Fair’s 100th anniversary as a magazine. Fun times. For you, maybe. For them, definitely. At least in this clip. Roll the clip!
Monty Hoffman, one of the funny people gathered for a roundtable pep talk about comedy with Adam Sandler’s fictional alter-ego in Judd Apatow’s Funny People, has died. Hoffman was 60. About getting Hoffman at the table with Carol Leifer, George Wallace, Paul Reiser and Mark Schiff for a “Broadway Danny …
Is the world ready for Mel Brooks to join the Twitter conversation? Ready or not, here comes @MelBrooks later today in an event coordinated for Comedy Central’s first-ever online #ComedyFest — that starts today and continues through May 3, 2013 — with the 2,000(minus 1,914)-year-old comedian in conversation with Carl …
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 …
For Conan O’Brien’s second installment of his Web-only uninterrupted talk show, “Serious Jibber-Jabber,” the front man for Team Coco on TBS welcomes writer/director/producer Judd Apatow to the table. Over the course of 69 minutes and change, we learn from Apatow that: Upon learning that one of Apatow’s first spec scripts …
