Hulu's documentary Too Funny to Fail takes a look back at the rise and fall of the short-lived sketch comedy series The Dana Carvey Show.
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Netflix debuted the first The Week Of trailer, showcasing the new original comedy starring Adam Sandler and Chris Rock as fathers of the bride and groom.
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Watch the Too Funny to Fail trailer, showing footage from a new Hulu documentary that explores the failure of the sketch comedy series The Dana Carvey Show.
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After directing the first two films in the hit animated franchise, director Genndy Tartakovsky has confirmed that he won't return for Hotel Transylvania 3.
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Triumph the Insult Comic Dog is getting his own TV show on Adult Swim. It'll co-star Jack McBrayer. Read more a bout the Triumph TV Show here.
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With the likes of Chris O'Dowd, Lena Dunham, and Melissa McCarthy in supporting roles, Judd Apatow's This is 40 is positively overflowing with hot comedic talents. But the film features some more established comic players as well, including Robert Smigel. During what must've been a slow day on set, Smigel decided to bring along his…
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A couple years ago Universal made a deal with Hasbro that put a whole bunch of board game films into development at the studio. The one result so far is Battleship, opening later this year, and in fact Universal has steadily shed most of the other projects: Ouija, Clue, Monopoly and now Candyland have all…
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When Judd Apatow announced his upcoming film, once tentatively titled This is Forty, we immediately wondered about the cast. That's not just a result of Apatow's fondness for a stable of comic actors that goes back to the Freaks & Geeks days, but a natural question given that the film is a spin-off from Apatow's…
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Three more have signed on for What to Expect When You're Expecting, Kirk Jones' adaptation of the classic pregnancy manual. The comedy follows several different couples, Love Actually-style, as each experiences pregnancy and the miracle of childbirth. Bridesmaids actress Wendi McLendon-Covey will play a colleague and friend of Jennifer Lopez' character; True Blood's Joe Manganiello…
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Internet comic book lore tells a tale that Robert Smigel, the famous comedy writer who created The Ambiguously Gay Duo, Triumph the Insult Comic Dog and more, once wrote a comedy screenplay for Green Lantern with Jack Black pegged to star. The hypothetical film is right up there with J.J. Abrams' or Tim Burton's Superman as…
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The Dana Carvey Show is now on Hulu. What's the big deal? Well, when the sketch comedy show premiered on ABC in the mid '90s---following a family-safe block of programming---millions were in awe at the stuff it got away with. It was too good to be true, giving SNL an irreverent elbow. When Carvey spoofed…
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Sony Pictures has released the movie trailer for their upcoming Adam Sandler comedy You Don't Mess with the Zohan. Directed by Dennis Dugan (Big Daddy, Happy Gilmore), Zohan's screenplay was a collaboration between three comedy greats: Judd Apatow (40-Year-Old-Virgin, Knocked Up), Robert Smigel (SNL) and Adam Sandler. The film stars Sandler as an Israel Intelligence…
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JoBlo has posted the first photo of Adam Sandler in his new comedy You Don't Mess with the Zohan, which is directed by Dennis Dugan. Dugan was once a great comedy director, having directed some of Sandler's better films (Big Daddy, Happy Gilmore). Recently however, Dugan has turned out more than a couple bombs: Chuck…
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Universal has released the first one-sheet for the Dennis Dugan directed comedy I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry. The movie stars Adam Sandler and Kevin James as two straight firefighters who pose as a gay married couple in order to qualify for their department's domestic partner benefits. "They're as straight as can be, but…
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Naomi Watts will star in an adaptation of Amy Sutherland's Kicked, Bitten and Scratched: Life and Lessons at the World's Premiere School for Exotic Animal Trainers for First Look Pictures. Todd Louiso (Love Liza) and Jacob Koskoff are scripting it into a romantic comedy. Former SNL Weekend Update duo Tina Fey and Amy Poehler will…
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Adam Sandler is set to star in You Don't Mess With the Zohan. Columbia Pictures is in the process of acquiring Zohan, written by the trio powerhouse of Judd Apatow (The 40 Year Old Virign), Robert Smigel (Triumph the Insult Comic Dog) and Adam Sandler. The plot seems pretty bad considering the creative talent involved:…
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