Last year, online retailer Amazon began developing six comedy pilots to be released streaming a la Netflix's recent push to produce its own original programming, and beloved comedic actor Jeffrey Tambor has just been cast in one of Amazon's new pilots, Deadline reports. Tambor will star in The Onion Presents: The News, a comedy that takes place behind the scenes of The Onion News Network. His character is David Everett, the network's oldest and most respected anchor who fears his job is being threatened by a younger journalist named Cameron, whom he hates. The show is created by Will Graham & Dan Mirk (The Onion News Network, The [...]
Hey, anyone laboring under the impression that Arrested Development was meticulously plotted down to the last chicken dance before the first episode ever aired:
We were fitting a wig for George, for a scene when he'd have hair, and I walked outside, and Mitch [Hurwitz] was way high up in the writers' room and looking down, and he saw me with the wig — it wasn't cut yet, so it came down past my shoulders — and he said, "Hold it right there!" And that's how Oscar was born. That's what was so great about the show, how stuff that happens on set could transform the show.
That's Jeffrey [...]
Here's a fun find by CollegeHumor's Jeff Rubin, from the second season of The Larry Sanders Show, in which Jeffrey Tambor's Hank corrects a coworker for calling one of his illusions a magic trick. If someone can find a third show that Tambor was on that made this joke, we'll really have a pattern.
