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Tina Fey and Robert Carlock Are Developing a New Show for NBC Together

by | January 9th, 2013

In a delightful interview with her Golden Globes co-host Amy Poehler for The Hollywood Reporter, Tina Fey revealed that she's currently developing a new show with her 30 Rock executive producer/co-showruner Robert Carlock and her husband, 30 Rock executive producer and composer Jeff Richmond. Fey signed a new four-year deal with Universal last year to develop new shows for NBC, but this is the first we've heard of her re-teaming with Carlock on the project, which is still in its very early stages. In fact, Fey, Carlock, and Richmond haven't even settled on an idea yet. Says Fey, "Right now, we're moving out of our old office, just [...]

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Colbert Report Expands To An Hour For Very Special Radiohead Episode

by | September 19th, 2011

For one beautiful moment, I thought the upcoming hour-long Colbert Report Radiohead episode meant that the Report was permanently moving to a 60-minute format, and I was filled with such a violent happiness that I hurled my table through the front window of this coffee shop. Happi-sadly, the expansion is only in effect for Monday, September 26, when Thom Yorke & Co. will stop by the show for interviews and performances off of their recent album King of Limbs. "I look forward to meeting the Radioheads and leveraging their anti-corporate indie cred to raise brand awareness for my sponsors," Colbert explains. Let me know how it goes; [...]

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Louis C.K. Advocates For Roving Lion Squads on Letterman

by | July 29th, 2011

After the government implements the suggestions from Louis C.K. Letterman appearance last night, we're all going to have to learn how to stuff our faces at Carl Jr.'s…smarter. "Every mall should have four lions, and you don't know where there are," C.K. explains. "They might be in Victoria's Secret, they might be in Cold Stone Creamery." No doubt wild ravenous beasts would be effective in weeding out the incredibly useless, but how fast would society get tired of all those lion stories? "Oh Steve, your mom got torn apart by lions? So did everyone's mom. Do you want a Like It, Love It or Gotta Have It?"

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Funny or Die Is Expanding into Movies

by | January 9th, 2013

Funny or Die, the web video and TV enterprise created by Will Ferrell, Adam McKay, and Chris Henchy, will begin producing movies, according to The Hollywood Reporter. With the goal of making two to three low-budget movies a year, Funny or Die has partnered with producer Scott Steindorff (Love in the Times of Cholera, The Lincoln Lawyer) to produce films written by, starring, and directed by its usual stable of comedians. This is great news for the website and for fans of amazing comedy, in general, because over the last few years, Funny or Die has amassed a talented and eclectic stable of comedic filmmakers and writers [...]

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Beavis And Butt-Head Have Some Things To Say About Human Centipede

by | August 4th, 2011

Doing what they can to fill the gaping MST3K-shaped hole in your heart, Mike Judge's Beavis and Butt-Head reboot will have the duo branching out from music video commentary to riff on feature films. For example, Human Centipede. "When I saw it, in fact that gave me the idea, I've got to have Beavis and Butt-Head review this," Judge explained to Screen Junkies. "One of the things I have them do after they show a clip of the movie is I have them talking about how there's going to be a Sex and the City 3, why don’t they combine it with a Human Centipede sequel and [...]

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Meatwad Hot Air Balloon Priced to Sell at $70,000

by | September 17th, 2010

Got $70,000? Happen to be both an Aqua Teen Hunger Force fan and a hot air balloon enthusiast? Have I got a deal for you! The Adult Swim shop is now selling a customized Meatwad hot air balloon for a cool $70k. For that price it also includes a piloted, one-hour ride anywhere in the continental U.S., just in case you don't know how to operate a hot air balloon. Get them credit cards out! [via]

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Zombieland TV Show Slowly Shambles Around Fox

by | October 18th, 2011

If anything would get Bill Murray out of his opulent solid gold mansion for a day, it's the chance to slip into some prosthetic rotting flesh for Fox's new Zombieland TV show. In addition to leveraging our collective love of the teeming undead masses, the 2009 film's writers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick would also be penning the show, which is rumored for the 2012-2013 season. Over at Vulture, Zombieland producer Gavin Polone reveals that CBS had originally ordered a Zombieland pilot script back in 2005, as "[t]he original plan for this was to make it as a TV show." As to be expected, hopes were high [...]

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Up All Night Wisely Gives Us More Maya Rudolph

by | August 1st, 2011

After realizing that they were sitting on a comedic goldmine (or having watched Bridesmaids blow up all over the world), Maya Rudolph's character on this fall's Up All Night has been changed from Christina Applegate's publicist buddy to her diva boss. According to TVLine, Rudolph will now be “a larger-than-life talk show host, and Christina will play her producer,” in a move that seems particularly evocative of TGS With Tracy Jordan. Explained NBC's Robert Greenblatt, “We decided to change the workplace all together, to give Maya a better platform to do her thing.” If her thing is a pitch-perfect mix of Oprah, Donatella Versace and Nuni [...]

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