Here's Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele, stars of Comedy Central's Key & Peele, sharing a bunch of fun stories and impressions on The Tonight Show last night, and Jay Leno pitches in by getting his band do a rimshot after Peele's Obama impression to punch it up a little bit.
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Kelsey Grammer and Martin Lawrence are developing a new multi-camera sitcom together that they would both star in and produce, according to a recent news story posted on Deadline. Before you go and say that's a bad idea, you should know that the article mentions the two actors had a meeting with the studio in November in which they "showed great chemistry." You feel pretty silly now, don't you? The plan is to get a network to commit to 10 episodes of the untitled yet-to-be-written show, with an option to pick up 90 more if it's a hit, which is the model that Charlie Sheen's FX show Anger [...]
Black Simon and Garfunkel returned to Late Night with Jimmy Fallon to debut another new song from their box set, a soothing, autumnal cover of Taylor Swift's "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together." It's a little strange that the singing duo only ever appears on Fallon, considering how popular Jimmy Fallon says they are. I'm starting to suspect that they're not a real band and that this might be some kind of a put-on. Exhibit A: Black Simon and Garfunkel bear a strong resemblance to ?uestlove and Captain Kirk Douglas, two members from Fallon's house band, The Roots. Anyone care to join me in my conspiracy theorizing?
Rumors of a Chris Rock/Dave Chappelle stand-up tour have been circulating for over a year now, but it's looking like more and more of a possibility after the two comedians performed together last night in New York and discussed the possibility onstage. The Comic's Comic has an in-depth report about the duo's unannounced dual stand-up performance at The Comedy Cellar after midnight last night. Chappelle took the stage for 40 minutes of solo stand-up (unannounced) before Rock hopped up. The two riffed together into the wee hours of the morning, and even ended up calling Arsenio Hall and Lenny Kravitz and texting Jay-Z to go [...]
Will Ferrell made a guest appearance on Fuse's Billy on the Street (which he produces via Funny or Die) late last year, and here's him on the show playing one of host Billy Eichner's crazy games called "Would Drew Barrymore Like That?" He's competing for a bitchin' cat scratch post, and don't worry, I won't spoil whether he wins or not for you.
Blue Velvet celebrates its 25th anniversary tomorrow with a new Blu-Ray package including nearly an hour’s worth of unseen footage, but I can’t imagine any lines, even a quarter century later, matching the quotability and notoriety of these:
“What kind of beer do you like?” the thuggish character Frank (Dennis Hopper) asks outside a bar in Blue Velvet. “Heineken,” mutters young, innocent Jeffrey Beaumont (the soft-spoken Kyle MacLachlan), growing aware of the seediness hidden within his hometown of Lumberton. “Heineken!” gnarled, leather-clad Frank explodes as he grips the back of Beaumont’s head. “Fuck that shit! Pabst Blue Ribbon!”
Beaumont accepts the PBR assertion and joins Frank among the [...]
Tina Fey and Amy Poehler are co-hosting The Golden Globes this Sunday, airing on NBC at 8PM ET/5 PM PT, and it should go down in history as the first intentionally funny awards show ever. Talking about the show to Entertainment Weekly, Fey joked that the ceremony will be "the sloppiest, best ever. The defining moment for a generation. But that generation is people who are currently in their nineties. And they've seen some stuff, so that’s actually saying more." Poehler added, "Tina and I have done a lot of research and we found out that our demo is 90-year-olds and babies. So we’re going to try to [...]
"We love Mitchell and Webb and I love Fry and Laurie. We thought it’d be cool if it was called our last names, like a comedy team, and we had bounced around Keegan and Jordan, and Jordan and Keegan. It felt like Keenan and Kel, or felt like Malcolm and Eddie… It felt like, 'Oh, these two guys are going to be oddballs, and one’s probably really fastidious, and the other one’s probably a slacker.' It felt like that instead of a sketch show."
- Keegan-Michael Key shares how the name Key & Peele came to be in an in-depth interview he and comedy partner Jordan Peele gave to [...]
