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The 'Blue Collar' Comedy Guys Are Opening a $200 Million Theme Park

by | May 1st, 2013

Jeff Foxworthy, Bill Engvall, and Larry the Cable Guy are opening a theme park. THR reports that the Blue Collar guys are preparing to open a 500-acre theme park called Blue Collar Country in Foley, Alabama. The theme park is set to "hotels, retail, an RV resort, rides, a 100,000-square-foot events center (for concerts, sporting events and conventions) and restaurants including a Foxworthy-themed steak house, an Engvall fish spot and a Larry the Cable Guy rib joint." The plan is to open the thing in the next two to three years and, if it's successful to expand to up to six locations. Now, comedy nerds finally have something [...]

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Network TV's Internet Problem, Summed Up in a Tweet

by | August 30th, 2010

Thanks @Mediaite!! Full Emmy opening. http://bit.ly/a5CwST #Emmys #gleeless than a minute ago via Twitter for iPhonejimmy fallon jimmyfallon

How crazy is this Tweet? Jimmy Fallon had to link to a presumably-illegal copy of his own Emmy opening number because NBC, his network, didn't put it online.

The video was internet catnip, just begging to be passed around the next morning. And as a piece of content never to be offered up on DVD or sold into syndication, featuring NBC [...]

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Trey Parker and Matt Stone Are Starting Their Own Production Company

by | January 14th, 2013

South Park and Book of Mormon masterminds Trey Parker and Matt Stone announced today that they're forming their own production company, with the power and money to approve movie, TV, and stage projects. The new company is called Important Studios and has $300 million in revenue built from South Park and Mormon. Parker and Stone joked in their company's press release that "Having worked with several different studios over the years, we came to realize that our favorite people in the world are ourselves." Stone told The NY Times, "Ten years ago, you needed that studio machinery to start cranking its marketing muscle. Now we could market a [...]

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How Your Comedy Sausage Gets Made

by | January 3rd, 2011

In this weekend's New York Times Magazine, there's a lengthy profile of Peter Principato, manager and discoverer of such people as Jonah Hill, Rob Riggle, David Wain, Will Arnett and Rob Corddry. It's a fascinating look into the deal-making side of the comedy business in Hollywood, including a peek inside a pitch meeting with the three guys from UCB LA improv favorites Convoy.

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