Frankly, I'm sort of embarrassed that I didn't pick up on this earlier; it's so beautifully obvious. So painfully money. As the actress explains on Conan last night, Melissa McCarthy's Bridesmaids character is based on The Food Network's Guy Fieri, with a sprinkle of Midwestern lady. The Kangol hat? The short-sleeve button down? The volatile charisma tempered with an inexplicable charm? It's all an homage. "Every scene I would have my glasses on the back of my head," McCarthy explained. "I tried for a long time to convince them to let me wear short, white, spiky hair, and they were like, 'You can't actually be Guy Fieri.'" McCarthy [...]
What we wouldn't give to look over and see Dave Koechner trying desperately to touch Amy Poehler's hands at Denny's. Even being at Denny's sounds pretty good right now, but that, that would really take the cake. In this briefest of interviews with Amy Poehler, Koechner tries to cement their friendship with an embrace even as he demonstrates how to perform dead shark eyes. "That's what a person sees before they die," Amy notes. Meanwhile, Poehler admits she is currently obsessed with chimp attacks. "I think if I had to fight someone I'd have to fight like a chimp and I'd have go for their tender areas," she [...]
The Beastie Boys' Fight For Your Right: Revisited, which aired last night on MTV and Comedy Central, is slow, creepy and downright bizarre. In the best way possible. During the short film, Mike D, MCA and Ad-Rock trash an apartment at Stanley Tucci and Susan Sarandon's place with pie and a sledgehammer, get stabbed by Chloe Sevigny, and drop acid with Maya Rudolph. After destroying ever plate glass window in the city, the Boys' (played by Danny McBride, Seth Rogen and Elijah Wood) encounter themselves from the future (Will Ferrell, John C. Reilly and Jack Black), complete with Delorean. The only option when confronted with such a violation [...]
From Gervais' appearance on Inside the Actors Studio last January: "When you're a working class mum, Jesus is like an unpaid babysitter."
