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Seth Green to Star in Seth MacFarlane's New Show 'Dads'

by | March 26th, 2013

Seth Green and Seth MacFarlane are making a live action show together. Green has been cast in the lead role in Dads, a Fox sitcom from MacFarlane that has been given an early six-episode order for the fall. The multi-camera comedy follows two successful guys in their 30s (Green and Mindy Project's Tommy Dewey) whose dads (Martin Mull and Animal House's Peter Riegert) show up uninvited and move in with them. MacFarlane is serving as executive producer, and his Ted co-writers Wellesley Wild and Alec Sulkin wrote the script. This will be Seth Green's first regular role in a live action TV show since the short-lived NBC sitcom Four [...]

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Zosia Mamet Tells Conan that David Mamet Was Exactly the Dad You'd Expect

by | May 11th, 2012

Nepotism shmepotism. People have complained about how the stars of Girls have famous parents, which is a dumb thing to complain about, but regardless the upside is these actresses tell hilarious stories about their dads. Like how David Mamet's only acting advice was that "acting school was bullshit." Apparently, school in general was bullshit, as he pushed his daughters to drop out of high school. Zosia seems like she's doing OK and she also curses a ton (as can be seen in the clip below) – David must be super proud.

Podcasts

Left Handed Radio: 'Margot Sullivan-Chesterfield's African Drum Explosion'

by | January 24th, 2013

On this episode: Dealbreaker!, a commercial for the all-new Latteatto, the WLHR Telethon, Frasier sings other theme songs, a man makes a bit of a flub when dialing 911, a man tries to buy a gun, "FriendZone!" the cool game for nice guys, an ad for Weekend Dad Beer, and two people profess their love to its limit.

Left Handed Radio is written and performed by Adam Bozarth, Dan Chamberlain, Matt Little, and Anna Rubanova, with Joe Stanton

See the next Sequel Machine show live: Die Hard 6. UCB Theater East, 3rd Street & Avenue A. Thursday, February 7th, 11:00 PM.

Trailers

That's My Boy Trailer: "You Puked On My Dress and Then Fucked It!"

by | March 1st, 2012

Waaaazzzzaaaap. Just when we least expected it, there's a movie coming out on June 15 in which Adam Sandler plays Andy Samberg's deadbeat dad. And judging by the trailer, it's not pulling any punches when it comes to gross-out humor. This Father's Day, thank your dad for teaching you how to be a real man! A bong-hitting, ear-piercing, hair-growing, Jacuzzi-sunglassing, no-shit-taking, woman-hating MAN. Burp.

History

Lenny Bruce Didn't Have the Best Relationship with His Dad

by | August 13th, 2012

Eesh. Here's a letter that Lenny Bruce wrote to his father upon facing jail time for a drug conviction in 1964. It's…dark. Dear Father,

This is the story of a boy and his father who spoiled him. He would want a bike, and his father would bring him one home: and if it wasn't to the boy's liking, he would throw it down on the ground and say, "I don't want that cheap old bike." And he would kick its spokes and jump on it: and the poor father would say, "Alright, my son, I'll work 24 hours a day and get you a nicer one." The [...]

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Happy 9/02/10!

by | September 2nd, 2010

It's 9/02/10, or 90210 day. The internet is littered with crap about the show today, but this story by comedian Dave Holmes about a very serious 90210 fan is truly great: "Three weeks later, I brought a dish and had dinner with Nicki, her roommate and a couple of the roommate’s friends from work. We watched 9-0, and then Nicki retreated to her room and we listened outside. 'Dad, I have to disagree with you. I think that Kelly was absolutely justified in reacting that way. You know how she was raised.'"

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