In honor of Eddie Murphy's Oscar hosting gig this coming spring, Steve Martin has penned "An Open Letter to Eddie Murphy," a letter filled to the brim with helpful hints based on his turn as host in 2001, 2003 and 2010. Regrets? Steve Martin has a few. Then again, they all seem to be Alec Baldwin related.
Just for the record, Thomas Lennon and Ben Garant understand that you loathed Herbie: Fully Loaded. They embrace that reality, they take it into themselves, and they release it back out into the universe before diving into a giant pool of gold doubloons ala Scrooge McDuck. Scott Wampler over at Collider interviewed the former members of The State about their new book Writing Movies For Fun and Profit: How We Made a Billion Dollars at The Box Office and You Can, Too!, and they have excellent advice for those among us who'd rather sell The Pacifier than starve to death in a Starbucks bathroom trying to sell our [...]
Guys, I gotta tell you, I love all the jokes about David Letterman's jihadists death threats. That bullet-proof vest that says "Not Dave" is really hitting the spot for some reason. If you happened to watch Dave last night, in addition to a little fatwa humor you got to see how Ashton Kutcher's Two And A Half Men role was indirectly predestined by an off-hand remark from Robin Williams. To That '70s Show dad Kurtwood Smith. In 1998. "He said, I only wish I could back and do a sitcom again," Kutcher explains. "And I never forgot that when I was on That ‘70s Show because I [...]
Leveraging the web to launch your comedy brand hasn't been a secret since Dane Cook rode the MySpace meteorite all the way to next-lev stand-up rockstardom. And if you're keeping an eye on the Social Media Stratosphere, you know that all the real deals are happening on Twitter these days. Showbiz Execs are now spending upwards of 97% of their working hours scouring the micro-blogging platform to find nuggets of cleverness that can be turned into big Hollywood comedy deal memos. So if you're looking to expand your stand-up brand 140 characters at a time, here are 7 tips to help you become the Dane Cook of Twitter.
As Ed Helms tells the GQ Comedy Issue, Stephen Colbert has always been a bubbling font of comedic wisdom. Steven Tip #1: Give yourself over to the dark side. Explains Helms, "When I started on The Daily Show, I was so nervous that I asked him if he had any pointers. He said, 'You’re gonna be great. Oh, and don’t forget to hang your soul up in the closet and come back for it later.'"
Not that Colbert was only concerned with surrendering to the ravenous maw of show business. He also played some mean invisible brass. "Whenever we were backstage before a taping, Steve would do this [...]
