Living comedy legend Martin Short is set to star in his first movie in several years, and it's a pretty prestigious one. The Wrap reports that Short has been cast in Paul Thomas Anderson's new movie Inherent Vice, an adaptation of the 2009 Thomas Pynchon novel of the same name. The film stars Joaquin Phoenix as pothead private eye Doc Sportello, who's investigating the disappearance of an ex-girlfriend. Short joins a supporting cast that also includes Owen Wilson, Benicio Del Toro, and Reese Witherspoon. Short's small role in the movie is being kept under wraps. He recently starred in Mulaney, SNL writer/stand-up John Mulaney's Lorne Michaels-produced sitcom that [...]
Here's Martin Short being as funny as ever on Letterman last night, singing a song about Carnival Cruise Lines to kick off his stint as the company's new singing and dancing spokesperson. This new John Mulaney/Martin Short sitcom can't come soon enough.
David Letterman became the second person this week to ask Tina Fey if she and Amy Poehler would ever host the Oscars. Her response: "Oh, I don't think so. I'll tell you what – for a woman, just the amount of dresses that you would have to try on, that's a dealbreaker. I'm out." Fey told a reporter "No way" when asked the same question two days ago. So, her going from "No way" to "I don't think so" in just a couple days should at least give fans some hope. I have a feeling this is a question she's going to get asked a lot, so hopefully, she'll [...]
TV legend Bill Cosby was a guest on Late Night Friday and took the opportunity to pick on Jimmy Fallon the entire time. He even ended up singing with the Roots. Cosby's old TV daughter Tempestt Bledsoe (who, full disclosure, acts on the Fallon-produced NBC sitcom Guys with Kids) was the second guest, and Cosby hung around to continue to bust Fallon's balls, hog the stage, and be really funny. Hit the jump for the rest of the episode.
Judd Apatow sat down last month at the Museum of Moden Art for a public chat with beloved filmmaker Mike Nichols (The Graduate, The Birdcage), entitled "Judd Apatow Asks Mike Nichols for Advice." It's a nice and thoughtful discussion about the duo's similar philosophies and filmmaking styles and it seems like the only advice Nichols gives Apatow is to just keep doing what he's doing.
On his guest appearance on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon last night, Steve Martin took his time to walk on stage and even got a little lost in this "little skit," as David Letterman calls it (in the skit). Try to find anything half as fun as this that's ever happened on Jay Leno's Tonight Show (Dancing Itos don't count).
Check out the rest of Steve Martin's Fallon appearance below:
Enjoy this 13-minute clip of Bill Cosby on Letterman, which includes a tight five minutes of sit-down stand-up and the legendary comedian proving he's still got his Cosby Show opening credits moves by dancing for half his allotted time to the Harlem Globetrotters theme.
Comedy legend Martin Short paid a visit to Conan O'Brien's TBS talk show last night. Amongst other things, Short shared how he came up with his Ed Grimley character, which he used to do while getting out of the shower nude to weird out his wife. I'm sure a lot of classic comedy characters were created the same way. Hit the jump for the other half of the interview, in which Short tells stories about his run-ins with Paul McCartney, George W. Bush, and Irish people.
Bill Murray has made a lot of really great movies in the past decade, but none of them are comedies in the traditional sense — at least not like his early work in movies like Stripes, Ghostbusters, and Groundhog Day. In the new GQ profile on Murray, he ponders this: "It's really a question I have. I think there's something that I can bring to a comedy today, but I don't know where to bring it," he says. "I've actually thought about having a manager again. Just to clear my head and have a plan." He pauses, as if working it out in his mind. "Eh, it's not [...]
Last week, comedy icon Albert Brooks dropped by Letterman and delivered one of his amazing talk show appearances. Now, here he is on Leno last night, being really funny once again. His Letterman material, however, is still significantly funnier because why would you use your best material on Leno?
Bill Cosby's appearances on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon are alwaysmemorable, and last night's was no exception. Fallon needs to bring this guy back for a whole week, Timberlake style.
Hit the jump for the rest of Cosby's Late Night appearance, which includes plenty of dancing:
Here's Parks and Recreation's Nick Offerman reliving his youth to Jay Leno last night. Don't worry, Nick Offerman talks way, way more than Jay Leno in this clip.
This is a comedy site, but rock God and androgynous British spaceman David Bowie is enough of a pop cultural icon with legitimate comedy chops — Extras, Zoolander, that video for “Dancing in the Streets” with Mick Jagger — for us to give him some recognition on his 66th birthday. (May we all be that cool when we are pensioners — because British.) Here then are 6 of the funniest Fake Bowies of all time, encompassing a number of Bowie’s many eras and alter egos.
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