With only a couple of last year’s crop of comedies likely to survive their first year (led by “The Mindy Project”), all the networks are betting big on a huge new crop of shows, Deadline’s Nellie Andreeva writes.
She runs down all 19 of the comedy pilots that have been picked up here: http://www.deadline.com/2013/05/upfronts-2013-the-big-comedy-reboot/
Great video bit from the White House Correspondents Dinner, featuring Barack Obama playing Daniel Day-Lewis “playing” Barack Obama in Steven Spielberg’s next presidential movie. Tracy Morgan has a key role. It’s pretty fun. Check it out here: http://www.deadline.com/2013/04/video-president-obama-daniel-day-lewis/
We also have several other videos and other coverage of the Correspondents Dinner, the so-called Nerd Prom that brings together heavy hitters in Washington circles with celebs from Hollywood and New York who like to hob-nob with them. See it all on Deadline.
Yes, we have some funny people running around the home offices here at Deadline and our parent company, PMC.
Dyhidrogen (should be dihydrogen) Monoxide can indeed be deadly, as all those little unreadable bullet points on the sign point out. There’s the issues when you inhale it, its contributions to the rust and corrosion of many metals, its predominance in acid rain. The list does indeed go on.
Of course, dihydrogen monoxide is more typically known as, um, water. Which is why the sign is tacked to our water cooler by some anonymous prankster. So drink up. But be careful.
Happy Birthday, Harold Clayton Lloyd (April 20th, 1893 - March 8th, 1971)
“Laughter is the Universal language. It establishes a common identity among people - regardless of other differences. It is the sweetest sound in the whole world.” - Harold Lloyd
Some welcome news about an upcoming documentary on the extraordinary and influential comic Richard Pryor, which will be showing at the Tribeca Film Festival and on Showtime.
Deadline has exclusive footage from the doc that you really should check out here: http://www.deadline.com/2013/04/showtime-richard-pryor-omit-the-logic-documentary-marina-zenovich-to-air-may-31/
Pryor truly was one of his era’s most extraordinary comedians. He helped change what comedy was, and is. Even the little taste of his talents in the video attached to our post is enough to make you want a whole lot more.
Can. Not. Wait.
Deadline has the trailer for “The Big Wedding,” a star-studded ensemble comedy about a, well, big wedding.
Gotta say these sorts of affairs typically aren’t my kinds of films, and not seeing a lot in the trailer that has me jones-ing to see this one, even with a cast that includes Rober De Niro, Susan Sarandon, Diane Keaton, Amanda Seyfried, Katherine Heigl and Robin Williams.
But check it out for yourself here: http://www.deadline.com/2013/03/video-trailer-big-wedding-robert-de-niro-diane-keaton/
What do you think?
My favorite Wu Tang Clan member is Redmayne
Gotta cover a lot of cultural territory on this joke: from old-school rap clans to musical Oscar contenders.
Hey, LA! Come out to M.I.’s Westside Comedy Theater in Santa Monica tomorrow night for some hilarious stand-up in Comedy Central’s New Faces series. Show starts at 8pm and cover is only five bucks.
Here’s the lineup:
Cy Amundson
Alice Wetterlund
Daryl Wright
Karl Hess
Will Weldon
Randy Liedtke
Amir K
Wil Anderson
Mike Malone
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That’s Chris Rock talking about his approach to gun control, as part of his appearance at the TV Critics Association meetings to tout Kemau Bell’s “Totally Biased” late-night show, which he exec produces.
Rock had a few more tart observations about a wide array of topics, including his own career and stand-up possibilities. Read it all here on Deadline: http://www.deadline.com/2013/01/chris-rock-gun-control-fx-totally-biased-tca/
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Ricky Gervais, on spending three hours every year the past three years as “the most feared man in Hollywood,” as host of the Golden Globes.
But, as he touted his latest series to TV critics, Gervais was pretty clear that there wasn’t a lot of blowback over his barbs. Read the whole story here: http://www.deadline.com/2013/01/ricky-gervais-to-miss-sundays-golden-globes-tca/
Jason and the Argonauts (1963)
Film still with stop motion animation
Directed by Don Chaffey (1917 - 1990), animated by Ray Harryhausen (1920 -...
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Sharks and Fish
Via The Warholian.
