Renowned comedian Richard Lewis, famous for his stand-up performances and memorable role on HBO’s Curb Your Enthusiasm, died on Tuesday night at his Los Angeles home after he suffered a heart attack. He was 76 years old.
The news of Lewis’s death was confirmed by his publicist, Jeff Abraham. Lewis had been living with Parkinson’s disease, a diagnosis he revealed in April 2023. In a statement, Lewis’s wife, Joyce Lapinsky, expressed gratitude for the love, friendship and support people had extended, and asked for privacy at this difficult time.
Born as Richard Philip Lewis on June 29, 1947, in Brooklyn and raised in Englewood, New Jersey, Lewis went on to graduate from Ohio State University. He emerged in the 1970s comedy scenes of New York and Los Angeles alongside future stars like Andy Kaufman, Richard Belzer and Elayne Boosler. Lewis quickly gained popularity and made appearances on late-night shows such...
The news of Lewis’s death was confirmed by his publicist, Jeff Abraham. Lewis had been living with Parkinson’s disease, a diagnosis he revealed in April 2023. In a statement, Lewis’s wife, Joyce Lapinsky, expressed gratitude for the love, friendship and support people had extended, and asked for privacy at this difficult time.
Born as Richard Philip Lewis on June 29, 1947, in Brooklyn and raised in Englewood, New Jersey, Lewis went on to graduate from Ohio State University. He emerged in the 1970s comedy scenes of New York and Los Angeles alongside future stars like Andy Kaufman, Richard Belzer and Elayne Boosler. Lewis quickly gained popularity and made appearances on late-night shows such...
- 2/29/2024
- by Baila Eve Zisman
- Uinterview
Friends, castmates and fans are sharing their remembrances of and tributes to Richard Lewis, the beloved comedian and longtime Curb Your Enthusiasm actor who died Tuesday at 76.
Lewis was part of the raft of comedians who broke through during the 1980s and gained fame as stand-up comedy began to flood cable TV later that decade and into the ’90s. His contemporaries included Jerry Seinfeld, Paul Reiser, Ellen DeGeneres, Ray Romano, Sinbad, Gilbert Gottfried, Rita Rudner, Larry Miller, Paula Poundstone, George Wallace, Elayne Boosler, Carol Leifer and many more.
Related: Remembering Richard Lewis: A Career In Photos
Lewis probably was best known for recurring on his longtime friend Larry David’s HBO series Curb Your Enthusiasm, playing himself as David’s neurotic, often needy longtime best pal.
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Lewis was part of the raft of comedians who broke through during the 1980s and gained fame as stand-up comedy began to flood cable TV later that decade and into the ’90s. His contemporaries included Jerry Seinfeld, Paul Reiser, Ellen DeGeneres, Ray Romano, Sinbad, Gilbert Gottfried, Rita Rudner, Larry Miller, Paula Poundstone, George Wallace, Elayne Boosler, Carol Leifer and many more.
Related: Remembering Richard Lewis: A Career In Photos
Lewis probably was best known for recurring on his longtime friend Larry David’s HBO series Curb Your Enthusiasm, playing himself as David’s neurotic, often needy longtime best pal.
Related: Hollywood & Media Deaths In 2024: Photo Gallery & Obituaries
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- 2/28/2024
- by Erik Pedersen
- Deadline Film + TV
Richard Lewis, the wild, eccentric, ultra-neurotic stand-up comedian and comic actor who most recently served as a semi-regular alongside Larry David on “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” is dead. He was 76. Lewis suffered a fatal heart attack Tuesday night less than a year after announcing in April 2023 that he had been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease and was retiring from performing stand-up comedy. Lewis’ death was confirmed by his publicist Jeff Abraham, who noted, “His wife, Joyce Lapinsky, thanks everyone for the love, friendship and support and asks everyone for privacy at this time.”
He appeared this month on the 12th and final season of “Curb” after begging off of the show in its 11th season while recovering from a series of surgeries. But he wound up shooting a scene in an episode that year, anyway.
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A beloved and respected comedian known to be the kind...
He appeared this month on the 12th and final season of “Curb” after begging off of the show in its 11th season while recovering from a series of surgeries. But he wound up shooting a scene in an episode that year, anyway.
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- 2/28/2024
- by Ray Richmond
- Gold Derby
Richard Lewis, one of the most influential stand-up comedians of his era and Larry David's hilariously neurotic best friend on HBO's "Curb Your Enthusiasm," has died at the age of 76. The official cause of death was listed as a heart attack.
Lewis belonged to a class of comedians who turned joke-telling into a confessional art form. His contemporaries were Richard Belzer, Elayne Boosler, Robert Klein, and Jerry Seinfeld. Lewis got belly laughs out of failed relationships, depression, anxiety, and addiction. He was reliably, identifiably miserable, which was a balm for anyone in his audience who happened to be struggling because, no matter how awful his life seemed to be, he was always back on stage the next night or bantering with David Letterman a week month later after recounting his latest crisis.
He was a neurotic's neurotic, and, therefore, an essential part of our lives. If he could laugh off life's absurd tortures,...
Lewis belonged to a class of comedians who turned joke-telling into a confessional art form. His contemporaries were Richard Belzer, Elayne Boosler, Robert Klein, and Jerry Seinfeld. Lewis got belly laughs out of failed relationships, depression, anxiety, and addiction. He was reliably, identifiably miserable, which was a balm for anyone in his audience who happened to be struggling because, no matter how awful his life seemed to be, he was always back on stage the next night or bantering with David Letterman a week month later after recounting his latest crisis.
He was a neurotic's neurotic, and, therefore, an essential part of our lives. If he could laugh off life's absurd tortures,...
- 2/28/2024
- by Jeremy Smith
- Slash Film
Richard Lewis, the beloved comedian, stand-up comedy all-star, and series regular on Larry David’s Curb Your Enthusiasm, has died after suffering a heart attack. He was 76. Lewis’ death was confirmed by his publicist, Jeff Abraham. “His wife, Joyce Lapinsky, thanks everyone for all the love, friendship and support and asks for privacy at this time,” Abraham said.
Richard Lewis’ comedic journey began with dual debuts in the New York and Los Angeles comedy arenas in the 1970s. Mentioned in the same breaths as comedy legends like Andy Kaufman, Richard Belzer, and Elayne Boosler, Lewis’ comedy style was darker and more self-deprecating than his fellow kings and queens of comedy. Not afraid to lampoon his shortcomings, Richard Lewis shared grim comedy about his addictions and bizarre thinking.
Lewis revealed that he had been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease in April 2023 and planned to retire from his stand-up career.
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Richard Lewis’ comedic journey began with dual debuts in the New York and Los Angeles comedy arenas in the 1970s. Mentioned in the same breaths as comedy legends like Andy Kaufman, Richard Belzer, and Elayne Boosler, Lewis’ comedy style was darker and more self-deprecating than his fellow kings and queens of comedy. Not afraid to lampoon his shortcomings, Richard Lewis shared grim comedy about his addictions and bizarre thinking.
Lewis revealed that he had been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease in April 2023 and planned to retire from his stand-up career.
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- 2/28/2024
- by Steve Seigh
- JoBlo.com
Richard Lewis, one of America’s most beloved and revered stand-up comics who also played a fictionalized version of himself on HBO’s Curb Your Enthusiasm, died Tuesday night at his home in Los Angeles after suffering a heart attack. He was 76.
His death was confirmed by his publicist Jeff Abraham. Lewis had been living with Parkinson’s disease, a diagnosis he revealed in April 2023.
“His wife, Joyce Lapinsky, thanks everyone for all the love, friendship and support and asks for privacy at this time,” Abraham said.
Complete information on survivors was not immediately available.
Related: Remembering Richard Lewis: A Career In Photos
Richard Lewis on ‘The Tonight Show’ in late-’70s
Born Richard Philip Lewis on June 29, 1947, in Brooklyn and raised in Englewood, NJ, Lewis — after a childhood he would describe as difficult — graduated from Ohio State University before landing in the New York and Los Angeles comedy scenes of the 1970s.
His death was confirmed by his publicist Jeff Abraham. Lewis had been living with Parkinson’s disease, a diagnosis he revealed in April 2023.
“His wife, Joyce Lapinsky, thanks everyone for all the love, friendship and support and asks for privacy at this time,” Abraham said.
Complete information on survivors was not immediately available.
Related: Remembering Richard Lewis: A Career In Photos
Richard Lewis on ‘The Tonight Show’ in late-’70s
Born Richard Philip Lewis on June 29, 1947, in Brooklyn and raised in Englewood, NJ, Lewis — after a childhood he would describe as difficult — graduated from Ohio State University before landing in the New York and Los Angeles comedy scenes of the 1970s.
- 2/28/2024
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Rick Newman, the founder of New York City’s hugely influential Catch a Rising Star comedy club that provided a training ground for the stand-up comics who would change the landscape of entertainment in the 1970s, died Feb. 20 at his home in Los Angeles. He was 81.
His wife Krysi Newman told The Washington Post that he died of pancreatic cancer.
Among the comics who began or developed their careers on the Rising Star’s Upper East Side stage are Jerry Seineld, Billy Crystal, Robin Williams, Richard Lewis, Andy Kaufman, Freddie Prinze, Robert Klein, Chris Rock, Eddie Murphy, Adam Sandler. Larry David, Elayne Boosler, Rodney Dangerfield, Jay Leno, Joy Behar and Ray Romano.
One of the performers most associated with Catch a Rising Star was Richard Belzer, the longtime host of the club who died Feb. 19, just a day before Newman.
Newman, tweeted Billy Crystal, “gave me and so many our starts as stand ups.
His wife Krysi Newman told The Washington Post that he died of pancreatic cancer.
Among the comics who began or developed their careers on the Rising Star’s Upper East Side stage are Jerry Seineld, Billy Crystal, Robin Williams, Richard Lewis, Andy Kaufman, Freddie Prinze, Robert Klein, Chris Rock, Eddie Murphy, Adam Sandler. Larry David, Elayne Boosler, Rodney Dangerfield, Jay Leno, Joy Behar and Ray Romano.
One of the performers most associated with Catch a Rising Star was Richard Belzer, the longtime host of the club who died Feb. 19, just a day before Newman.
Newman, tweeted Billy Crystal, “gave me and so many our starts as stand ups.
- 2/24/2023
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Budd Friedman, the comedy club pioneer who founded the original Improv in New York in 1963 and gave early career breaks to the likes of Jay Leno, Robert Klein, Bette Midler, Richard Pryor and Andy Kaufman, has died. He was 90.
Friedman died Saturday of heart failure at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, his wife, Alix, told The Hollywood Reporter.
Three years after Johnny Carson and The Tonight Show departed Manhattan for Burbank, Friedman opened a Hollywood outpost of the Improv on Melrose Avenue in 1975 in his first expansion of the brand.
There were 22 Improvs across 12 states in February 2018 when Friedman and partner Mark Lonow sold the company to Levity Entertainment Group, whose investors included Irving Azoff.
At his flagship New York hotspot, located at West 44th Street and Ninth Avenue in Hell’s Kitchen, Friedman also employed Rodney Dangerfield as an Mc, Elayne Boosler...
Friedman died Saturday of heart failure at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, his wife, Alix, told The Hollywood Reporter.
Three years after Johnny Carson and The Tonight Show departed Manhattan for Burbank, Friedman opened a Hollywood outpost of the Improv on Melrose Avenue in 1975 in his first expansion of the brand.
There were 22 Improvs across 12 states in February 2018 when Friedman and partner Mark Lonow sold the company to Levity Entertainment Group, whose investors included Irving Azoff.
At his flagship New York hotspot, located at West 44th Street and Ninth Avenue in Hell’s Kitchen, Friedman also employed Rodney Dangerfield as an Mc, Elayne Boosler...
- 11/13/2022
- by Mike Barnes
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
George Shapiro, producer and longtime manager of Jerry Seinfeld, Carl Reiner, Andy Kaufman and other comedy stars, died May 26 at his home in Beverly Hills. He was 91.
Shapiro was co-founder and partner in Shapiro/West Associates, the prosperous talent management banner that helped assemble the mammoth NBC hit “Seinfeld” and numerous projects for Andy Kaufman. More recently, Shapiro served as executive producer of the Crackle/Netflix series “Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee,” hosted by Seinfeld.
A vivacious personality, Shapiro was known for his long relationships with clients and for his infectious enthusiasm for the business of entertainment. “Shapiro’s love of laughter and reverence for those who inspire it helped him build a career in comedy as an unabashed supporter of comic performers and comedy writers,” Shapiro’s family stated.
Danny De Vito, who co-starred with Andy Kaufman in the influential 1978-1983 sitcom “Taxi,” recalled Shapiro’s presence during the...
Shapiro was co-founder and partner in Shapiro/West Associates, the prosperous talent management banner that helped assemble the mammoth NBC hit “Seinfeld” and numerous projects for Andy Kaufman. More recently, Shapiro served as executive producer of the Crackle/Netflix series “Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee,” hosted by Seinfeld.
A vivacious personality, Shapiro was known for his long relationships with clients and for his infectious enthusiasm for the business of entertainment. “Shapiro’s love of laughter and reverence for those who inspire it helped him build a career in comedy as an unabashed supporter of comic performers and comedy writers,” Shapiro’s family stated.
Danny De Vito, who co-starred with Andy Kaufman in the influential 1978-1983 sitcom “Taxi,” recalled Shapiro’s presence during the...
- 5/28/2022
- by Cynthia Littleton
- Variety Film + TV
George Shapiro, the deeply respected talent manager, producer and co-founder of Shapiro/West & Associates, died Thursday evening of natural causes at his home in Beverly Hills. He was 91.
Along with his partner and childhood friend Howard West, Shapiro was personal manager to comedy greats Jerry Seinfeld, Andy Kaufman and Carl Reiner, among others. He and West would go on to executive produce Seinfeld, one of the top comedy series of all time.
Born in New York, Shapiro spent summers during his teenage years as a lifeguard at the Tamiment Resort in the Poconos, where he met performers like Dick Shawn, Pat Carroll and Carol Burnett, singer Barbara Cook, and choreographer Herb Ross. That’s when he also got to know talent agents.
“These guys came up … I didn’t even know what an agent was, but they came to see the show, to talk to the girls, talk to the comedians,...
Along with his partner and childhood friend Howard West, Shapiro was personal manager to comedy greats Jerry Seinfeld, Andy Kaufman and Carl Reiner, among others. He and West would go on to executive produce Seinfeld, one of the top comedy series of all time.
Born in New York, Shapiro spent summers during his teenage years as a lifeguard at the Tamiment Resort in the Poconos, where he met performers like Dick Shawn, Pat Carroll and Carol Burnett, singer Barbara Cook, and choreographer Herb Ross. That’s when he also got to know talent agents.
“These guys came up … I didn’t even know what an agent was, but they came to see the show, to talk to the girls, talk to the comedians,...
- 5/28/2022
- by Lynette Rice
- Deadline Film + TV
Like the Lead Comedy Actor group, this category only sports five nominees, including veterans Tracee Ellis Ross and Allison Janney, but also two new HBO Max shows providing sensational roles for a couple of TV sitcom veterans. Deservedly, the Emmy last year went to Catherine O’Hara of Schitt’s Creek, showing that voters do like to honor their icons when they can. However, this is a category that usually resists change: Julia Louis Dreyfus won it six times in a row for Veep, and Candice Bergen took it five times in a row for Murphy Brown. This year there is one former Emmy winner who carries the odds to be back in the winner’s circle for a new show that broke just as the season came to an end. Here is the rundown of the nominees and then scroll down for the predicted winner, followed by analysis and a predicted...
- 9/14/2021
- by Pete Hammond
- Deadline Film + TV
This story about “Hacks” first appeared in the Down to the Wire issue of TheWrap’s awards magazine.
Like all good stories about comedians, “Hacks,” the HBO Max series that stars Jean Smart as a fading Las Vegas comic, began on the road.
“We were actually on a road trip many years ago,” Jen Statsky, who co-created “Hacks” with Paul W. Downs and Lucia Aniello, said. “Paul was shooting his ‘The Characters’ special for Netflix, and Lucia and I were there to help out. And we just started talking about female comedians and women in the arts in general — women of a certain age who hadn’t really gotten their due, while their male counterparts had a seemingly much easier path and got recognition. We were talking about these iconic women who nevertheless kept pounding the pavement, got knocked down 1,000 times and got back up 1,001 times. And we just became fascinated with telling that story.
Like all good stories about comedians, “Hacks,” the HBO Max series that stars Jean Smart as a fading Las Vegas comic, began on the road.
“We were actually on a road trip many years ago,” Jen Statsky, who co-created “Hacks” with Paul W. Downs and Lucia Aniello, said. “Paul was shooting his ‘The Characters’ special for Netflix, and Lucia and I were there to help out. And we just started talking about female comedians and women in the arts in general — women of a certain age who hadn’t really gotten their due, while their male counterparts had a seemingly much easier path and got recognition. We were talking about these iconic women who nevertheless kept pounding the pavement, got knocked down 1,000 times and got back up 1,001 times. And we just became fascinated with telling that story.
- 8/24/2021
- by Tim Baysinger
- The Wrap
The Emmy comedy categories were looking like a walk in the park for Ted Lasso until HBO Max and Universal Television swept in late in the season with its acclaimed new series Hacks, sweeping up 15 nominations and now giving ol’ Ted a run for his money after just 10 episodes.
The series focuses on a veteran Vegas comedienne, Deborah Vance, played by Jean Smart, who hires a young comedy writer, Ava (Hannah Einbinder), to give her some fresh new material and gets more than she bargained for. It is a story of two women of different generations whose personalities may clash, but they are actually both certifiable, and certifiably brilliantly written and performed characters that lit up this season just in the nick of time.
Joining Deadline for Universal TV’s two-part panel at Contenders Television: The Nominees awards-season event were Smart, Einbinder and Carl Clemons-Hopkins,...
The series focuses on a veteran Vegas comedienne, Deborah Vance, played by Jean Smart, who hires a young comedy writer, Ava (Hannah Einbinder), to give her some fresh new material and gets more than she bargained for. It is a story of two women of different generations whose personalities may clash, but they are actually both certifiable, and certifiably brilliantly written and performed characters that lit up this season just in the nick of time.
Joining Deadline for Universal TV’s two-part panel at Contenders Television: The Nominees awards-season event were Smart, Einbinder and Carl Clemons-Hopkins,...
- 8/14/2021
- by Pete Hammond
- Deadline Film + TV
Shortly after “Hacks” premiered, one popular fan theory about the Jean Smart-led HBO Max comedy was that her stand-up comedian Deborah Vance was modeled after the late Joan Rivers.
After all, she was an older female comedian who experienced a lifetime in front of the camera, including an all-too-short tenure as a late-night TV host. TheWrap caught up with “Hacks” co-creators Paul W. Downs, Lucia Aniello and Jen Statsky a few hours after the show was nominated for 15 Emmy, and asked if they based Smart’s Las Vegas comedian Deborah Vance on anyone specific.
Here’s what they said.
“She’s an amalgamation of a lot of people,” said Downs, who also stars in the show as Deborah and Ava’s (Hannah Einbinder) manager. “She started as a stage act with her then partner, kind of like a Nichols and May. So there’s Elaine May in there. She...
After all, she was an older female comedian who experienced a lifetime in front of the camera, including an all-too-short tenure as a late-night TV host. TheWrap caught up with “Hacks” co-creators Paul W. Downs, Lucia Aniello and Jen Statsky a few hours after the show was nominated for 15 Emmy, and asked if they based Smart’s Las Vegas comedian Deborah Vance on anyone specific.
Here’s what they said.
“She’s an amalgamation of a lot of people,” said Downs, who also stars in the show as Deborah and Ava’s (Hannah Einbinder) manager. “She started as a stage act with her then partner, kind of like a Nichols and May. So there’s Elaine May in there. She...
- 7/13/2021
- by Tim Baysinger
- The Wrap
What makes HBO Max’s “Hacks” stand out from a slew of new TV offerings (and other shows about the same topic of stand-up comedy), isn’t just its stellar cast, it’s also the premise that two women share a connection, despite being worlds apart, through the desire of making others laugh. And in an even more special twist of fate, the actors also found a similar connection in how they drew from real-life comedians for their roles.
“I thought that it would be a blast to play a stand-up comedian,” Smart reveals to Variety. “I fantasized about that when I was 12; I wanted to be Phyllis Diller.”
Set in Las Vegas, “Hacks” follows canceled comedian Ava (Hannah Einbinder) who begrudgingly heads to the Nevada to work with the only other person who will currently employ her, stand-up legend Deborah Vance (Smart). In an attempt to keep each other relevant,...
“I thought that it would be a blast to play a stand-up comedian,” Smart reveals to Variety. “I fantasized about that when I was 12; I wanted to be Phyllis Diller.”
Set in Las Vegas, “Hacks” follows canceled comedian Ava (Hannah Einbinder) who begrudgingly heads to the Nevada to work with the only other person who will currently employ her, stand-up legend Deborah Vance (Smart). In an attempt to keep each other relevant,...
- 5/13/2021
- by Meredith Woerner
- Variety Film + TV
Spoken Giants, the first royalties administrator for spoken-word content, is expanding its roster, announcing Wednesday that it’s signed the estates of Bob Hope and Desilu (Lucille Ball/Desi Arnaz) as well as Gabriel Iglesias, Larry the Cable Guy, Elayne Boosler, Jackie Fabulous, Eddie Pepitone, Nephew Tommy, Jeff Dye, and Todd Barry.
Previously announced members include the Don Rickles estate, the Ralphie May estate, Mike Birbiglia, Lewis Black, Dan Cummins, Gerry Dee, Pete Holmes, Kyle Kinane, Kathleen Madigan, Leanne Morgan, Theo Vona and hundreds of others representing thousands of individual comedy works.
Spoken Giant was created in 2019 by former BMI executive Jim King and the founders of comedy record label 800 Pound Gorilla, Ryan Bitzer and Damion Greiman, to address the fact that online stores, streaming services and other delivery platforms don’t compensate spoken word creators as the authors of their works as they do for musicians and songwriters. The...
Previously announced members include the Don Rickles estate, the Ralphie May estate, Mike Birbiglia, Lewis Black, Dan Cummins, Gerry Dee, Pete Holmes, Kyle Kinane, Kathleen Madigan, Leanne Morgan, Theo Vona and hundreds of others representing thousands of individual comedy works.
Spoken Giant was created in 2019 by former BMI executive Jim King and the founders of comedy record label 800 Pound Gorilla, Ryan Bitzer and Damion Greiman, to address the fact that online stores, streaming services and other delivery platforms don’t compensate spoken word creators as the authors of their works as they do for musicians and songwriters. The...
- 4/28/2021
- by Jill Goldsmith
- Deadline Film + TV
HBO Max probably could have just left its upcoming show named as the “Untitled Jean Smart Series” and that would be all that a bunch of viewers would need to know to want to tune in.
Still, Wednesday’s panel at the Television Critics Association virtual Winter Press Tour offered up a good idea of what powers the still-yet-unnamed series. The show centers on Smart as Deborah Vance, a comedian whose act has been a marquee Las Vegas attraction for years. Hannah Einbinder plays a fledgling comedy writer tasked with helping Deborah’s act reach a broader audience.
If “pioneering comedian with a Vegas act” conjures a specific real-life analogue, then don’t expect Smart to be playing that particular person. She said that her performance wasn’t drawn solely from Joan Rivers or any specific idea.
“Every once in a while, there’ll be a scene or I’ll...
Still, Wednesday’s panel at the Television Critics Association virtual Winter Press Tour offered up a good idea of what powers the still-yet-unnamed series. The show centers on Smart as Deborah Vance, a comedian whose act has been a marquee Las Vegas attraction for years. Hannah Einbinder plays a fledgling comedy writer tasked with helping Deborah’s act reach a broader audience.
If “pioneering comedian with a Vegas act” conjures a specific real-life analogue, then don’t expect Smart to be playing that particular person. She said that her performance wasn’t drawn solely from Joan Rivers or any specific idea.
“Every once in a while, there’ll be a scene or I’ll...
- 2/10/2021
- by Steve Greene
- Indiewire
Refresh for updates Tom Bergeron, the longtime host of ABC’s Dancing With The Stars, isn’t happy with the booking of Sean Spicer, Donald Trump’s former White House press secretary, as a contestant for the upcoming season.
In a tweet today following the casting announcement, Bergeron wrote that he had hoped the upcoming 28 season “would be a joyful respite from our exhausting political climate and free of inevitably divisive bookings from Any party affiliations.”
In fact, Bergeron said he left a lunch with the show’s new executive producer (that would be Andrew Llinares) a few months ago and thought they were in agreement.
“Subsequently (and rather obviously),” Bergeron continued, “a decision was made to, as we often say in Hollywood, ‘go in a different direction.”
Bergeron also stopped by for a promotional appearance on SiriusXM to discuss the show with host Dalton Ross, reiterating his tweet.
See his entire Twitter statement below.
In a tweet today following the casting announcement, Bergeron wrote that he had hoped the upcoming 28 season “would be a joyful respite from our exhausting political climate and free of inevitably divisive bookings from Any party affiliations.”
In fact, Bergeron said he left a lunch with the show’s new executive producer (that would be Andrew Llinares) a few months ago and thought they were in agreement.
“Subsequently (and rather obviously),” Bergeron continued, “a decision was made to, as we often say in Hollywood, ‘go in a different direction.”
Bergeron also stopped by for a promotional appearance on SiriusXM to discuss the show with host Dalton Ross, reiterating his tweet.
See his entire Twitter statement below.
- 8/21/2019
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
One of the most closely watched legal cases in the comedy world will not be going to trial.
Attorneys for Conan O’Brien, TBS and joke writer Robert Alexander Kaseberg announced on Thursday that they have settled a dispute over allegations of joke theft.
Kaseberg filed suit back in 2015, alleging that O’Brien had stolen five of his jokes for his opening monologue. The case was set to go to trial on May 28, and O’Brien was expected to testify, along with writers on the show, Turner Broadcasting executives and an expert on probability theory.
Terms of the settlement were not disclosed. Kaseberg, 60, has written jokes for late-night shows off and on for decades. He has a blog and a Twitter account, and alleged that O’Brien’s writers stole his jokes in late 2014 and early 2015.
Among the jokes he posted online: “Tom Brady said he wants to give his...
Attorneys for Conan O’Brien, TBS and joke writer Robert Alexander Kaseberg announced on Thursday that they have settled a dispute over allegations of joke theft.
Kaseberg filed suit back in 2015, alleging that O’Brien had stolen five of his jokes for his opening monologue. The case was set to go to trial on May 28, and O’Brien was expected to testify, along with writers on the show, Turner Broadcasting executives and an expert on probability theory.
Terms of the settlement were not disclosed. Kaseberg, 60, has written jokes for late-night shows off and on for decades. He has a blog and a Twitter account, and alleged that O’Brien’s writers stole his jokes in late 2014 and early 2015.
Among the jokes he posted online: “Tom Brady said he wants to give his...
- 5/9/2019
- by Gene Maddaus
- Variety Film + TV
It’s a time for peace on earth, good will toward men. At least, that’s what the song says. But in Hollywood, the anti-President Donald Trump online crowd has been active, given wings as the hashtag #TrumpResign has drawn more than a few celebrity broadsides.
A campaign apparently started by the online DemocraticCoalition.org, which claims to be “the nation’s largest grassroots Resistance organization,” is claiming credit for the tweetstorm. The hashtag is trending outside the Us as well as throughout the country.
So far, most of the people using the hashtag aren’t the usual big names of Trump celebrity attackers, although there are plenty of anti-Trump postings among them minus the hashtag. The marker has picked up a few variations as well, including #TrumpResigns and #TrumpResignisTrending.
Here are some of the celeb reactions using the hashtag so far:
"The fact is there is nothing Else's that will work"? Seriously?...
A campaign apparently started by the online DemocraticCoalition.org, which claims to be “the nation’s largest grassroots Resistance organization,” is claiming credit for the tweetstorm. The hashtag is trending outside the Us as well as throughout the country.
So far, most of the people using the hashtag aren’t the usual big names of Trump celebrity attackers, although there are plenty of anti-Trump postings among them minus the hashtag. The marker has picked up a few variations as well, including #TrumpResigns and #TrumpResignisTrending.
Here are some of the celeb reactions using the hashtag so far:
"The fact is there is nothing Else's that will work"? Seriously?...
- 12/22/2018
- by Bruce Haring
- Deadline Film + TV
Decades before leading his own multi-million media empire Entertainment Studios, Byron Allen was a teenage kid with a dream, standing in the parking lot of The Comedy Store on Sunset Blvd., watching his stand-up mentors go up on stage.
As Jim Carrey tweeted today, “If she loved you, you did well. If she didn’t, you did something else,” and Allen was one of the guys who did quite well by Shore. Not only was The Comedy Store the place where Jimmie Walker first recognized the young stand-up and enlisted him on his comedy writing team, but it’s also where Allen was first spotted by NBC talent scouts for his Tonight Show debut at 18 years-old and his long-running hosting stint alongside Fred Willard, Sarah Purcell, and Skip Stephenson on the network’s Emmy-winning reality comedy series Real People.
Allen met Comedy Store matriarch Mitzi Shore when he was 14 years old during the ’70s.
As Jim Carrey tweeted today, “If she loved you, you did well. If she didn’t, you did something else,” and Allen was one of the guys who did quite well by Shore. Not only was The Comedy Store the place where Jimmie Walker first recognized the young stand-up and enlisted him on his comedy writing team, but it’s also where Allen was first spotted by NBC talent scouts for his Tonight Show debut at 18 years-old and his long-running hosting stint alongside Fred Willard, Sarah Purcell, and Skip Stephenson on the network’s Emmy-winning reality comedy series Real People.
Allen met Comedy Store matriarch Mitzi Shore when he was 14 years old during the ’70s.
- 4/12/2018
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Among club comics of the mid-1970s, Elayne Boosler was the queen bee. A funny lady from Brooklyn, Boosler started at the New York Improv as a waitress and singer, and it wasn’t long before she was onstage telling jokes like the guys of her generation. But as a woman, Boosler had to take more risks than her peers. That meant volunteering to follow hot comics like Richard Pryor or Freddie Prinze, while male comics let audiences cool off before trying out a set. Over time, Boosler developed the persona of a funny, sexy, smart woman. She was unquestionably feminist, though more by dint of being a liberated woman than any particular agenda. “[Men] want you to scream, ‘You’re the best,’" went one of her jokes, "while swearing you’ve never done this with anyone before.” Boosler believed strongly in authenticity, and deplored the self-deprecating shtick of predecessors such...
- 2/5/2016
- by Yael Kohen
- Vulture
New York's funniest showCelebrity Autobiographyhad a show onMon. June 8at7pmwhichfeatured in the cast star of stage and screenBrooke Shields, Ramona SingerThe Real Housewives of NYC, Tate DonovanBroadway inAmy's View, Good People,TV's24, Damages,Lucy DeVito, Elayne Boosler,Tony Award-winnerAlan ZweibelBilly Crystal's700 Sundays,Martin Short Fame Becomes Me,Tim KazurinskySNL, Police Academy,Broadway'sAn Act of God, Eugene Pack amp Dayle Reyfel.
- 6/15/2015
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
New York's funniest showCelebrity Autobiographyhas shows on Sat. 66 at 930pm and Mon. June 8 at 7pm. 66, a special Tony Awards-themed show will feature in the cast SNL's Sasheer Zamata, Tony Award-winnerRoger BartYou're a Good Man, Charlie Brown, The Producers, Tony Award-nomineeMario CantoneLaugh Whore, Assassins, Sex and the City, Tony Award-nominee David Harbour, Elayne Boosler, Eugene Pack,Dayle Reyfel and moretba. 68 will feature in the cast Brooke Shields, Ramona Singer The Real Housewives of NYC, Tate Donovan Broadway inAmy's View, Good People,TV's24, Damages, Lucy DeVito, Elayne Boosler, Tony Award-winnerAlan ZweibelBilly Crystal's700 Sundays,Martin Short Fame Becomes Me, Tim Kazurinsky SNL, Police Academy, Broadway's An Act of God, Eugene Pack, Dayle Reyfel and more tba. Ticketsare80, 60, 45plus a two-drink minimum.
- 6/4/2015
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Internet Lord (and sure, astrophysicist or whatever) Neil deGrasse Tyson is taking his popular StarTalk podcast to National Geographic Channel starting April 20. The newly televised version of the show will follow the podcast's existing format, with Tyson discussing different scientific topics with a variety of cohorts, usually stand-up comics or writers.
People caught up with Tyson to talk about making the jump to television, whether science is under attack and if he'll have a band on the show.
How did StarTalk get started?
There are places for people to go who already like science – Discovery Channel, Space.com, there's Science Friday on NPR.
People caught up with Tyson to talk about making the jump to television, whether science is under attack and if he'll have a band on the show.
How did StarTalk get started?
There are places for people to go who already like science – Discovery Channel, Space.com, there's Science Friday on NPR.
- 4/13/2015
- by Alex Heigl, @alex_heigl
- People.com - TV Watch
Making big moves in her career, Cecily Strong scored the hosting gig for the 2015 White House Correspondents Association dinner.
In addition to the big stage, Cecily is also part of an elite group of women (only three others) to host the politically-driven event.
In its 82 years of existence, only three other women hosted the event. Those women include Paula Poundstone, Elayne Boosler and Wader Sykes.
Whca president Christi Parsons told press that she chose Strong to host the 2015 event because, "Her political humor is sly and edgy, and it comes with a Chicago accent.”
Strong will take the stage on April 25 in Washington, D.C.
In addition to the big stage, Cecily is also part of an elite group of women (only three others) to host the politically-driven event.
In its 82 years of existence, only three other women hosted the event. Those women include Paula Poundstone, Elayne Boosler and Wader Sykes.
Whca president Christi Parsons told press that she chose Strong to host the 2015 event because, "Her political humor is sly and edgy, and it comes with a Chicago accent.”
Strong will take the stage on April 25 in Washington, D.C.
- 11/19/2014
- GossipCenter
The White House Correspondents' Association announced today that Cecily Strong will be the entertainer at next year's White House Correspondent's dinner. Strong will probably have a leg up on cracking wise on journalists: According to the White House Correspondents' Association press release, Strong's father, Bill Strong, served as Associated Press Bureau chief in the Illinois Statehouse. "Her political humor is sly and edgy, and it comes with a Chicago accent. Cecily grew up in suburban Oak Park, Ill. and got her start in Chicago's comedy scene with stints at iO and Second City," said Whca President Christi Parsons, in a statement.
- 11/19/2014
- by Teresa Jue
- EW - Inside TV
Cecily Strong will perform at next year's White House Correspondents’ Association dinner. In the 82-year history of the dinner, the current Saturday Night Live cast member will be only the fourth female host, following Paula Poundstone (1992), Elayne Boosler (1993), and Wanda Sykes (2009). Whca president Christi Parsons explained her reason for choosing Strong by saying, "Her political humor is sly and edgy, and it comes with a Chicago accent.” The dinner will be held on April 25. And you thought you wished you hadn't started a conversation with her at a party before.
- 11/19/2014
- by Jesse David Fox
- Vulture
Welcome to The Snap, Riot's new webseries of pop culture commentary, irreverence, and importance. I'm Louis Virtel, your curator. You know me from Twitter, Verbal Vogueing, and Weeklings. Now you know me from The Snap. Get it? In our first episode we discover the 44 reasons L.A. had a 4.4. earthquake. Courtney Love has the Malaysian plane situation figured out, so I thought I'd take the reins on this lesser disaster (at least until Courtney gets around to solving it). Get ready to learn something as I lecture in front of a brick wall like Elayne Boosler in 1988. Check out the The Snap's official page here! ...
- 3/19/2014
- by Louis Virtel
- Hitfix
DVD Release Date: Oct. 8, 2013
Price: DVD $29.98
Studio: Somerville House/Entertainment One
Bill Maher takes the mic in The Best of An Evening at the Improv.
Television’s wildly popular An Evening at the Improv originally premiered as a series of one-hour shows in 1982 on A&E and featured the hottest stand-up comics of the day.
Somerville House’s four-disc, 12-hour collection The Best of An Evening at the Improv features the hysterical work of more than 100 comedians culled from the first 52 hours of the series, including spots by such beloved old-school shtick-meisters as Milton Berle, Shecky Greene, Shelley Berman, Jackie Mason and Mort Sahl alongside such soon-to-be-superstars as Jerry Seinfeld, Howie Mandel, Jim Carrey, Richard Lewis, Bob Saget, Arsenio Hall, Billy Crystal, and Bill Maher.
The Improv Club opened its doors in Los Angeles in 1974, the second Improv venue to be opened by founder Budd Friedman following his original outlet in New York City.
Price: DVD $29.98
Studio: Somerville House/Entertainment One
Bill Maher takes the mic in The Best of An Evening at the Improv.
Television’s wildly popular An Evening at the Improv originally premiered as a series of one-hour shows in 1982 on A&E and featured the hottest stand-up comics of the day.
Somerville House’s four-disc, 12-hour collection The Best of An Evening at the Improv features the hysterical work of more than 100 comedians culled from the first 52 hours of the series, including spots by such beloved old-school shtick-meisters as Milton Berle, Shecky Greene, Shelley Berman, Jackie Mason and Mort Sahl alongside such soon-to-be-superstars as Jerry Seinfeld, Howie Mandel, Jim Carrey, Richard Lewis, Bob Saget, Arsenio Hall, Billy Crystal, and Bill Maher.
The Improv Club opened its doors in Los Angeles in 1974, the second Improv venue to be opened by founder Budd Friedman following his original outlet in New York City.
- 9/5/2013
- by Laurence
- Disc Dish
HBO has begun developing the new hour-long series Laughs Unlimited—a show that is somehow not one of the network's many '80s-era stand-up cavalcades featuring Elayne Boosler, Fred Stoller, and myriad people in bloused-out rayon shirts, but something even less funny. The ironically titled drama comes from Rampart and The Messenger director Oren Moverman and Jarhead author Anthony Swofford, and is well within their brutal wheelhouses: It concerns "an Army medic who returns from serving a tour in Afghanistan only to find that her husband is divorcing her and taking custody of their daughter." If that sounds like ...
- 12/14/2012
- avclub.com
Tags: SNLWe KilledbooksBook ReviewsEllen DeGeneresSandra BernhardLily TomlinIMDb
It's crazy to read a book like Yael Kohen's We Killed and know that people still make statements like "Women aren't funny." The newly released oral history of women in comedy over the last 50 years is a reminder that not only are women hilarious, but they are smart, persistent and unwilling to back down when faced with the sexism and adversity they've been dealt whether it's been in comedy clubs, writing rooms or late night TV shows.
Comedy is not just entertainment: It has the power to enlighten and educate, no matter how subtle it might be presented. What you'll get from We Killed is a sense of how progressive women have proven to be, from the pioneers like Phyllis Diller and Elaine May to the alternative comics of the '90s like Janeane Garofalo up through today's boundary-smashing Sarah Silverman, for whom no topic is untouchable.
It's crazy to read a book like Yael Kohen's We Killed and know that people still make statements like "Women aren't funny." The newly released oral history of women in comedy over the last 50 years is a reminder that not only are women hilarious, but they are smart, persistent and unwilling to back down when faced with the sexism and adversity they've been dealt whether it's been in comedy clubs, writing rooms or late night TV shows.
Comedy is not just entertainment: It has the power to enlighten and educate, no matter how subtle it might be presented. What you'll get from We Killed is a sense of how progressive women have proven to be, from the pioneers like Phyllis Diller and Elaine May to the alternative comics of the '90s like Janeane Garofalo up through today's boundary-smashing Sarah Silverman, for whom no topic is untouchable.
- 11/8/2012
- by trishbendix
- AfterEllen.com
America now has many famous female comics. But it has been a 60-year struggle, a book reveals
When American magazine journalist Yael Kohen went looking for a book on the history of female comedians, she was stunned to discover that almost nothing had been written on the subject.
"There were some academic works and I found one book that was not in print any more. [Female comics] had been overlooked. Their contributions were still overshadowed," Kohen said.
So Kohen, a contributing editor for Marie Claire, put together a remarkable history of women in comedy, telling their story from the brave pioneers of the 1950s, such as ground-breaking standup Phyllis Diller, to modern, A-list Hollywood power-players like Kristen Wiig.
The book, We Killed: The Rise of Women in Comedy, features scores of first-person interviews, clips from contemporary reviews and excerpts from stories on a huge roster of female comics, their male contemporaries and...
When American magazine journalist Yael Kohen went looking for a book on the history of female comedians, she was stunned to discover that almost nothing had been written on the subject.
"There were some academic works and I found one book that was not in print any more. [Female comics] had been overlooked. Their contributions were still overshadowed," Kohen said.
So Kohen, a contributing editor for Marie Claire, put together a remarkable history of women in comedy, telling their story from the brave pioneers of the 1950s, such as ground-breaking standup Phyllis Diller, to modern, A-list Hollywood power-players like Kristen Wiig.
The book, We Killed: The Rise of Women in Comedy, features scores of first-person interviews, clips from contemporary reviews and excerpts from stories on a huge roster of female comics, their male contemporaries and...
- 10/20/2012
- by Paul Harris
- The Guardian - Film News
The early stages of Survivor are both monotonous and awesome. Although you're waiting for the real alliances and betrayals to happen, you're also enjoying a lot of losers and weirdos. And that is totally fun. Think of when you first laid eyes on Project Runway's bizarre puppeteer Elisa Jimenez or leather princess Stella Zotis. You knew they wouldn't live, but you needed that craycray.
Allow me to count up the most important items of entertainment from last night's episode. We dropped from 17 contestants to 16, and the elimination felt healthy. (And yes, our blond-smirky-probz-gay hottie Carter is still in the game. Phew.)
1. Sorry, I was wrong: Roxy is just insane.
Survivor needed another motormouth to kick around since the marvelous, braindead Zane left us last week. Enter Roxy, who I thought I loved.
"Those two are dangerous together," Roxy warned us about her tribemates Malcolm and Angie, who'd been snuggling.
Allow me to count up the most important items of entertainment from last night's episode. We dropped from 17 contestants to 16, and the elimination felt healthy. (And yes, our blond-smirky-probz-gay hottie Carter is still in the game. Phew.)
1. Sorry, I was wrong: Roxy is just insane.
Survivor needed another motormouth to kick around since the marvelous, braindead Zane left us last week. Enter Roxy, who I thought I loved.
"Those two are dangerous together," Roxy warned us about her tribemates Malcolm and Angie, who'd been snuggling.
- 9/27/2012
- by virtel
- The Backlot
Aug. 12: Actor George Hamilton is 73. Actress Jennifer Warren is 71. Singer-guitarist Mark Knopfler of Dire Straits is 63. Singer Kid Creole is 62. Actor Sam J. Jones ("Flash Gordon") is 58. Jazz guitarist Pat Metheny is 58. Actor Bruce Greenwood ("Thirteen Days") is 56. Country singer Danny Shirley (Confederate Railroad) is 56. Guitarist Roy Hay of Culture Club is 51. Rapper Sir Mix-a-Lot is 49. Actor Peter Krause is 47. Actor Michael Ian Black ("Ed") is 41. Actress Rebecca Gayheart is 41. Actor Casey Affleck is 37. Actress Maggie Lawson ("Psych") is 32. Actress Imani Hakim ("Everybody Hates Chris") is 19.
Aug. 13: Actor Pat Harrington is 83. Actor Kevin Tighe is 68. Actress Gretchen Corbett ("The Rockford Files") is 65. Actor Danny Bonaduce is 53. Actress Dawnn Lewis ("A Different World," "Hangin' With Mr. Cooper") is 51. Actor John Slattery is 50. Actress Debi Mazar is 48. Actress Quinn Cummings ("Family") is 45. Country singer Andy Griggs is 39. Drummer Mike Melancon of Emerson Drive is 34. Actress Kathryn Fiore ("Reno 911!") is 33. Singer James Morrison is 28.
Aug.
Aug. 13: Actor Pat Harrington is 83. Actor Kevin Tighe is 68. Actress Gretchen Corbett ("The Rockford Files") is 65. Actor Danny Bonaduce is 53. Actress Dawnn Lewis ("A Different World," "Hangin' With Mr. Cooper") is 51. Actor John Slattery is 50. Actress Debi Mazar is 48. Actress Quinn Cummings ("Family") is 45. Country singer Andy Griggs is 39. Drummer Mike Melancon of Emerson Drive is 34. Actress Kathryn Fiore ("Reno 911!") is 33. Singer James Morrison is 28.
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- 8/9/2012
- by AP
- Huffington Post
Puberty can be a rough time for flamingos. Especially when parts of your body start growing at lightning speeds. “This baby flamingo knows what I’m talking about!” — Hack flamingo comic. Yes, this baby flamingo, described as “friendly” by The Daily Mail, who has no idea what words are coming out of their mouths, has giant feet and doesn’t know what to do with them. “You know what giant baby flamingo feet mean, don’t you ladies?” — Famed flamingo entertainer Elayne Boosler. Sometimes, his feet are so big he just gives up and lays on a rock, as seen in this next photo: I’d legit scoop him up into my bosom and raise him in the bathtub if I wasn’t so sure he’d administer a deadly kick to the face. How is there not a ballet written about these majestic birds? (via The Daily Mail)...
- 1/23/2012
- by Michelle Collins
- BestWeekEver
Bwe’s own Dan Hopper did not love the series finale to Entourage. I, personally, did not watch it because the last thing I watched on HBO was Elayne Boosler: Live Nude Girls in 1989 (Jk Jk Jk Arli$$ 4 Lyfe). To be completely honest, I’m not really into Entourage, but it seems that many fans (and “h8rs”) have a volatile relationship with the show. So to quell the nerves of the people who also weren’t satisfied with the way things turned out, comedian Joe Mande provides us with an unseen alternative take. How this ended up on the cutting room floor, we’ll never know. [via Joe Mande]...
- 9/13/2011
- by Eliot Glazer
- BestWeekEver
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Some of the funniest women in thehistory of comedy converged at the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences inBurbank adjacent North Hollywood, California, earlier this week. The Ladies Who Make Us Laugh panel ofcomedians included Lily Tomlin, Margaret Cho, Elayne Boosler, Caroline Rhea,Carol Leifer, Bonnie Hunt and Mary Lynn Rajskub.
During the love fest, Booslerrecalled her early days in stand-up comedy. “I left New York, I started in ’72and then I left in ’76 and the Carol Leifer was in the group behind me withSeinfeld and Larry [David]. And she became the girl in that group. So youplayed the Elaine [Benes] part in that group with those guys and went on tobreak into TV and get 50 million Emmys for writing Seinfeld. Everyone here is so accomplished in her own way. And weall followed the next one and followed the next one and branched out and openedit for more and more people.
Some of the funniest women in thehistory of comedy converged at the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences inBurbank adjacent North Hollywood, California, earlier this week. The Ladies Who Make Us Laugh panel ofcomedians included Lily Tomlin, Margaret Cho, Elayne Boosler, Caroline Rhea,Carol Leifer, Bonnie Hunt and Mary Lynn Rajskub.
During the love fest, Booslerrecalled her early days in stand-up comedy. “I left New York, I started in ’72and then I left in ’76 and the Carol Leifer was in the group behind me withSeinfeld and Larry [David]. And she became the girl in that group. So youplayed the Elaine [Benes] part in that group with those guys and went on tobreak into TV and get 50 million Emmys for writing Seinfeld. Everyone here is so accomplished in her own way. And weall followed the next one and followed the next one and branched out and openedit for more and more people.
- 5/19/2011
- by Pop Culture Passionistas
- popculturepassionistas
“I think you were born gayer than a sweet-smelling jockstrap”* and “I must have looked ravishing in my prom dress” are two things that you would usually reserve to say to a convicted child-molesting bus driver in private, right? Not so, according to a Wisconsin judge who fashions himself a very forward-thinking, potty-mouthed version of Judge Judy. Weirder yet, he speaks graphically about the defendant’s d**k when referring to the homophobia of yesteryear, the kind of societal shunning that might cause an ashamed, closeted gay guy to allegedly go after kids — which, for the record, is not how that works, because exclusively linking pedophilia with gay men is unfounded and archaic. Nevertheless, it is his courtroom, and if he’s going to trot out the best one-liners this side of an Elayne Boosler HBO special, we can’t stop him. *How does he know? [via Videogum] – Eliot Glazer...
- 5/12/2011
- by Best Week Ever
- BestWeekEver
I will be honest. I don’t know what byCHANCE - a new web series from Noah Craigwell, Darrus Sands, Miranda Craigwell, and Miles Craigwell of Beyond Measures Productions - is about. “People,” I guess? It's the only other option besides completely BSing my way through this review, but I don't write for Buddyhead. So, here is what I think I know about byCHANCE: It’s a web series consisting of a variety of random, unconnected stories set in and around Boston that "deal with real people in real situations." The first story “In Limbo” is about a homeless actor named Mace. The second story “Grey Line” is about a girl who likes a boy, and owns a cell phone. Now here is what I don’t know about byCHANCE, and may never find out: Why is Mace homeless? Why does Mace have "thanks for a good time last night...
- 1/28/2010
- by Michael Neal
- Tubefilter.com
After Every Scandal There Come the Welcoming Arms of Showbiz. Here are some new movies, shows, and remakes for Tiger Woods to Consider. Elayne Boosler's new movie: "The Blisterhood of the Unraveling Pants". His mistress' new group movie, "The Dis-terhood of the Cavilling Rants". Joel West's new buddy movie: "Brotherhood of the Simpering Lance". Or "Motherhood of the Shriveling Glance." Mike Spicer "The First Wife's Club." Joel West "Fight Club," or "First Wives' Fight Club" Lorrie Irby Jackson "Waiting to Impale." Carmen Gallo Colley "Lost Toy Story." Victor Del Mar He was named "The Associated Press Athlete of the Decade". Of Course! Elayne Boosler Well, you have to be associated, and you have to press. Joel West Driving Tiger, Beaten Wagon Lorrie Irby Jackson "What's (Golfing) Clubs Got To Do With It?" C. Todd Mccormick "The Whore's...
- 12/19/2009
- by Elayne Boosler
- Huffington Post
Comedian Elayne Boosler has signed on as host of Pax TV's new game show Balderdash, based on the Mattel board game. The half-hour show, set to premiere in the summer, will feature a panel of celebrity comedians who present contestants with bluff answers to a variety of questions from the game's categories, including words, movies and people. The series, which will air Monday-Thursday, is produced by the Hatchery Llc. Executive producers are Hatchery partners Margaret Loesch, Dan Angel and Bruce Stein. Stephen Radosh is co-executive producer.
- 6/11/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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