Here's a video made for YouTube's Comedy Week in which Ben Schwartz (Parks and Recreation, House of Lies) plays a movie executive trying to convince Wedding Crashers/The Internship duo Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson to do another movie together despite being a crazy person.
Ben Schwartz, best known for his recurring role as delightful douchebag Jean-Ralphio on Parks and Recreation and for starring on Showtime’s House of Lies, just landed a guest starring role in Arrested Development’s upcoming fourth season. As with most of the previously-announced guest stars, like John Slattery, Isla Fisher, Terry Crews, and Chris Diamantopoulos, there’s no word on who Schwartz will be playing. Despite the constant barrage of leaked set photos, the folks in charge are doing a pretty good job of keeping most of the new seasons' details under wraps.
In other (minor) AD news, Henry Winkler just spoke to Moviefone, sharing his thoughts on the [...]
What an ass Don Cheadle is. What is he even the Don of? Jerks? It's wonderful that Ben Schwartz was brave enough to tell the truth. This is the first of a Hollywood Reporter series in which they're having actors "stump" for their Emmy-nominated costars. Can't wait for the video in which the dog from Modern Family just takes a shit on a photo of the cast.
Ben Schwartz has been cast in the upcoming drama Runner, Runner. Set in the world of online gambling, Justin Timberlake plays a totally realistic looking online poker player who becomes the protégé and then enemy of an off-shore gaming CEO (Ben Affleck). Schwartz plays Timberlake's friend, which would make Tom Haverford obscenely jealous. He was also named as one of the leads in a new animated pilot called Working Class Hero, which co-stars Patton Oswalt. Things are going so well for Schwartz, I doubt he'll have to get run over by a Lexus anytime soon.
Here's a nice long interview with Ben Schwartz about House of Lies and whether he would ever use Jean-Ralphio's flirting techniques in real life:
I think a human being would get slapped for that. I don't think I'd want to go out with a girl who'd want to go out with Jean-Ralphio. I don't think I'd want to date a woman who, when I go up to her and start dancing like a crazy person and licking her neck would be like, "Oh, this is the person I've been looking for!"
He also talks about how the many rejections he's encountered in entertainment have prepared him for [...]
Here's Ben Schwartz, star of House of Lies and Jean-Ralphio on Parks and Recreation, giving a loose and goofy interview on local morning show Good Day LA, a show that heavily relies on audience applause sound effects. Watch 'till the end to see host Steve Edwards steal one of Scott Aukerman's jokes by accidentally calling Ben Schwartz's show "House of Pies." He's doing Aukerman's "getting all of Ben Schwartz's career specifics wrong" bit," but for real.
Is an Instagram worth a thousand words? You bet your smart phone camera it is! With so many ways to stay in touch and be constantly entertained by our favorite comedians every second of every day via Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, YouTube and so on, Instagram gets lost in the mix. You best check yourself (and your apps) to make sure that camera icon is moved to your home screen because top notch entertainment in the form of photos and comments are right there waiting to make you LOL, or whatever it is you do when projecting your approval of something funny. We put together a nice starter pack featuring [...]
It might seem like he's joking but this is exactly how you grill sausages. Watering can? Yep. Not one but two baby hockey sticks? Yep yep. Push-ups with an intense/constipated face. Yep yep yep. This is one time you do want to see how the sausage gets made. (BOOOOOM! Woooo! Dismount: nailed.)
Canadian Elle (or as it's just called down here, ham) has a comedy issue out this month, which includes many fun things like a profile of How I Met Your Mother's Cobie Smulders and a look at Aubrey Plaza's approach to humor. Best of all, they asked Ben Schwartz to do the month's horoscopes. There are gems like:"I say this every month, but I'm hoping you'll listen this time: DO NOT WEAR THE SWEATPANTS THAT SAY 'SUPER BITCH' ON THE BUTT. I will keep repeating that until you listen." Too late Mr. Schwartz – my body, my sweatpants. Read the rest after the jump:
House of Lies is set to premiere this Sunday on Showtime, but they put the pilot onYouTube yesterday. The show is about a not-so-ragtag group of management consultants trying to manage and/or consultant (I don’t know how business works) in this crazy world and features many familiar, well-liked faces. Should you watch it?
Reasons you should watch:
It stars a movie star and that movie star is Don Cheadle
If anything can be learned from New Girl is that it’s an absolute joy to be able to watch a movie star on TV each week (and that school teachers in LA have an endless supply of vintage dresses). [...]
Everyone's favorite Pawnee sleazebag Jean-Ralphio apparently has a twin sister, and she'll be appearing in a future episode of Parks and Recreation, Entertainment Weekly reports. Jean-Ralphio's twin, Mona Lisa, will be played by none other than Jenny Slate, a wildly-funny stand-up who you may recognize from Saturday Night Live, Bored to Death, and her Marcel the Shell with Shoes On short films and books. In an episode set to air later this season, Mona Lisa will get a job as a saleslady at Tom Haverford's Rent-A-Swag store. Just when you thought this show couldn't top having Joe Biden as a guest star, they go and hire Jenny [...]
Everyone's favorite awful person Jean-Ralphio Saperstein will back on Parks and Recreation next season for at least one episode. Mike Schur explained that he's coming back to help his old buddy Tom:
"Tom as the beginning of the season is struggling a bit because he hasn't had any good entrepreneurial ideas in a while and he's running short on cash and he strikes what could be the first ever actually legitimate business idea that he has ever had — and he invites Jean-Ralphio into the mix to be his business partner again."
Schur stressed that this isn't like Tom's other shenanigans:
"It's not like a flash of inspiration [...]
But seriously, what the juice? This is Ben Schwartz in the part he was born to play: an excited teenager. Randy Cunningham: 9th Grade Ninja debuts next month on Disney XD, Disney's animated action-orientated kids network that you probably didn't know existed. The show is about Schwartz's character finding an 800-year-old ninja guide called "NinjaNomicon" (I'm not making this stuff up) and using it to fight bad guys and get through high school. The show also features Jim Rash, Tim Curry, Megan Mullally, and John Oliver, so let's all start making babies fast so we don't look weird watching it. Speaking of weird, watch the clip below that explains [...]
CollegeHumor is branching out from the web videos game into producing a full-length movie, directed by Arrested Development's Brad Copeland and starring Glenn Howerton, Ben Schwartz, and Steve Little. It's called Coffee Town and it's about three freeloadin' friends. (Which, Three Freeloadin' Friends I mean, is also the title of my upcoming country-rap album.) Howerton plays "an underachieving web designer who plans to stage a fake robbery in order to preserve his daily routine at a local coffee shop, which is being converted into a pub." Over-under's at 3 for the amount of times this character pops his shirt off real quick.
