A lazy idiot’s motto? Perhaps. But in the cruel world of mass market comedy, where we celebrate the laziest of the idiots, sometimes old faithful is better than cutting edge. This is especially true for celebrities with established brands and followings, celebrities like, well, Danny McBride, Jack Black, and Kyle Gass. (Maybe Dane Cook? Come on…maybe?). No matter what your comedic sensibilities, it’s hard to deny “The Roadie with Danny McBride” packs a special sort of power in its anticipatory appeal, its “I already know and love these guys” punch.
Assuming you haven’t started watching already (you definitely should have; what I have [...]
Danny McBride and Todd Phillips have just signed on to remake the popular Danish comedy Klovn (Clown in English). Klovn, which grossed over $12 million in the Scandinavian box office, was based on the TV show of the same name by Danish comedians Casper Christensen and Frank Hvam, who will be producers on the remake. Laura Turner Garrison took an in-depth look at the Danish comedy scene, including Klovn, in December. Here's what she had to say about the film:
The film Klovn picks up where the series left off, with the two man-boys planning a boys-only canoe trip that will end at a brothel. Casper labels the trip [...]
Oh fame, you are fickle temptress! While the Bill Hickses of the world receive your clammy embrace only after death, you mount yourself on a Dane Cook like a teenager after her first taste of Peach Schnapps! But there are no guarantees in this life. And there are no sure paths to becoming famous. Hundreds of top-notch stand-ups and sketch/improv performers are toiling away in obscurity at this very second (okay, maybe not this very second, but you get the gist).
So, how the hell do you become the next comedy sensation?
While most of our most renowned comedy performers have come up either through stand-up or sketch/improv (the two [...]
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 [...]
The fine, gooey line between homoeroticism and bromance blurs even more when James Franco and Danny McBride haze MTV's Josh Horowitz while promoting Your Highness. I guess you're setting them up by titling the show Male Bondage, but that can go so many different ways. Subjecting Horowitz to audible Academy-Award-winner farts, commanding him to "get his dick off the ground" while doing The Worm and pretending to jerk off in his face is just enough male camaraderie to distract me from McBride's conspicuously missing mustache. What had happened to it? Josh Horowitz never had any friends later on like the ones he had when James Franco grabbed him [...]
Emma Watson, Jason Segel, and David Krumholtz are going to play themselves in Seth Rogan and Evan Goldberg's End of the World, which used to be know as The Apocolypse and before that Jay and Seth vs. the Apocalypse. The three, along with the already announced crew of Jay Baruchel, Jonah Hill, Danny McBride, Craig Robinson, and Aziz Ansari, are all guests at James Franco's house party when the apocalypse comes, which stinks because that means they aren't coming to my apocalypse party. The bright side is some of them are supposed to die, which I read to mean that ALL OF THEM WILL DIE but in a [...]
Matt Maiellaro, one of the co-creators of Aqua Teen Hunger Force, is developing a new animated comedy for FX, and Eastbound & Down's Danny McBride has signed on to voice a character. The show's about "a man recently released from prison," which, yeah, is incredibly open-ended (was he released from prison a changed man who's devoted his life to cooking free burritos for the homeless? Is he vengeful and determined to set his former cellmates free? Was he in prison for decades and now is terrified of the outside world like Brooks in The Shawshank Redemption?). But the track record of the people involved, plus FX's animation hot [...]
Eastbound and Down doesn't really feel like a normal TV show. And there's good reason for that! Danny McBride and Jody Hill write the show as if it's a long movie, and from the get-go they knew they wanted three seasons, with each representing an act with its own arc. Their process sounds pretty unique and is definitely fascinating. Here's McBride from a new GQ interview:
From the get go we knew no one was going to greenlight me and Jody to make a fuckin' four-hour movie. So we thought: let's make a TV show and stretch it out. We'd done The Foot Fist Way together, and we [...]
Who knew there was something that could make me happier than a photo of Danny McBride brandishing a cross-bow? Turns out, add Nick Swardson to the photo, the whole thing jumps to another level. Really though, I'd laugh watching Swardson take out his recycling (though I'd be screaming at him to do it on roller-skates the entire time), so it's exciting to see him bringing the evil in Jesse Eisenberg and Aziz Ansari's 30 Minutes Or Less. While we've already seen Eisenberg and Ansari's bank robbing style, new images give a better picture of McBride and Swardson's nefarious duo, who kidnap and force the hapless Aziz [...]
Sure, to be fair, Danny McBride is just playing Kenny Powers with a British accent. But oh, how it satisfies. "Are you going to just sit here and ruin all of my jerkings?" McBride's Thadeous queries Franco's Fabious. It's like what your mama said about foul-mouth medieval stoner knight comedies: if it ain't broke, don't fix it. TheYour Highness red band trailer pretty much guarantees that just because some gags are predictable (falling down, bare-chested nymphs, probably more falling down), that doesn't mean they won't feel as fresh and renewing as a cold spring against an Academy Award-winners bare ass when you're watching them. "Doesn't Courtney's new [...]
It’s a rare phenomenon that a film so completely decimates an audience’s understanding of civility that it forces them to recalibrate their entire moral compass. Before Danny McBride swindled us into liking Kenny Powers, the bullying, ultra-arrogant former major league pitcher in Eastbound & Down, he forced on us a protagonist far more brutal and amoral. Fred Simmons, strip mall Taekwondo instructor and small town psychopath, intruded upon the public consciousness in 2006 with Jody Hill’s The Foot Fist Way, leaving audiences stunned and struggling to regain their internal equilibrium, as if they had been suddenly dropped into higher altitudes.
Fred Simmons’s savage presence loomed so large over the [...]
What was once calledJay & Seth vs. the Apocalypse is now called The Apocalypse, and its cast of Jay Baruchel and Seth Rogen has ballooned out to include James Franco, Jonah Hill, Danny McBride and Craig Robinson – still all trapped in an apartment during the apocalypse. There's always room for those guys in an end-of-days fallout-shelter-type gathering, as I always say (it's a very clumsy motto, and almost never applicable to the situation). Seth Rogen will direct the movie, which will likely start shooting in the fall.
I don't know if Kenny Power's K-Swiss cologne commercials are really the best testament to the scent actually smelling good, unless there's a niche market of men hoping to smell like LA Looks hair gel, Gold Bond powder and fresh ball sweat. Having a tag line like "Let her smell your dick on your neck" seems a little TOO REAL, if you're picking up what I'm putting down. In addition to the three excellent Adam McKay-directed spots, Kenny Powers serves as K-Swiss's CEO in an ad with a little behind-the-scenes with actual athletes, who's clothes will be promptly wrung out into a bucket, mixed into [...]
Here's the movie Danny McBride want's to make next, which would be based on a true story: "These rednecks robbed Loomis Fargo for over $17 million. And they would have gotten away with it, except they stayed in the town they were living in. They literally moved from trailers into the richest neighborhoods in town, lived like kings, bought their wives tit jobs. Jody wants to make it like a southern Godfather." Yep, I'm sold. [via]
