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Trade Roundup: Paul Feig, Police Academy 2, Bruce Almighty 2, Rob McElhenney

Paul Feig will direct The Better Woman, a comedy "about a powerful young woman whose boyfriend dumps her for an older lady." Ewwww, why would a guy want to date a woman who's OLD? PUKE.

There's gonna be a new Police Academy, directed by Scott Zabielski of Tosh.0. At ease, gents. I don't know what police say.

Fox greenlit two pilots: Living Loaded, a single-camera comedy from Rob McElhenney, about "a loose partying blogger forced to change his career plans when he becomes a radio host," and Dana Fox's Ben Fox Is My Manny, about a male nanny. A manny. Does that count as a [...]

Steve Carell's Magician Movie, CBS Divorce Comedy, And Eddie Murphy's Alien Movie

Steve Carell's new magician comedy Burt Wonderstone "is set in the world of rival Las Vegas magicians." Jim Carrey will play a newfangled illusionist who threatens Carell and leads to a breakup with his partner Steve Buscemi; Olivia Wilde will play Carell's former assistant and present love interest. So…best movie ever?

CBS has bought a show based on a long-running Israeli sitcom in which "a middle-aged, recently divorced couple who was bad at marriage discover they are now really bad at divorce – and can't help but being involved in each others' lives." Hmm. You mean like, for example, they take driving lessons together? My predictions [...]

Jim Carrey Has An Important, Off-Putting Message For Emma Stone

Guys, sometimes we make a joke. We think it's a really dead-on, witty piece of art, and it's only later we stop to consider the fact that we are not making said joke inside a cultural vacuum. That there are, in fact, old men who hit on inappropriately young women in an unsettling manner all the time, or that very few people want to hear about how a complete stranger wants to put his babies inside them. Jim Carrey's Emma Stone message is one such joke. "If I were a lot younger, I would marry you, and we would have chubby little freckle-faced kids," Carrey explains in his [...]

Jim Carrey Gets Everyone's Hopes Up for a Dumb & Dumberer Sequel

I will fight to the death to defend 2003's Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd, so it looks like I should Vaseline up my face now for the rumored Dumb & Dumber sequel. "We're talking about maybe returning to some old characters that everyone has been asking about," Jim Carrey said in an interview about his future cinematic plans, "…There's Bruce Almighty and we're talking about maybe another Dumb and Dumber." Just when Carrey makes Mr. Popper's Penguins, he goes and does something like this…and totally redeems himself!

The Cable Guy's Unfair Stigma

The Cable Guy was one of the funniest movies of the 1990s and few people know it. If you’ve only seen it once, chances are you probably still think it’s a stinker. If you happened to revisit the movie at some point in the last 15 years, you know the real deal — it’s hands-down hilarious.

When it was released in 1996, the movie was supposed to be a hit. Looking back at the people involved, it’s hard to fathom how it wasn’t. The Cable Guy roster reads like a comedy dream team: Jim Carrey, Matthew Broderick, Ben Stiller, Judd Apatow, Jack Black, Andy Dick, Janeane Garofalo, Owen Wilson, [...]

'Twas the Night Before Drunk History, And Jim Carrey Was Santa Claus

Drunk History is back! And this time it comes with a Christmas poem in its jolly sack. Jim Carrey plays Santa Claus, with his cheeks like jelly and a bowl full of …jelly. Ryan Gosling and Eva Mendes also star, as Allan McLeod leads us through a holiday classic despite the fact that he "drank since 2:30 today." [Chewing noise.]

Dumb And Dumber…est Is On The Way From The Farrelly Brothers

Just when I thought they couldn't possibly be any dumber, they go and do something like this… and totally redeem themselves! After they wrap up The Three Stooges, the Farrelly brothers are apparently going ahead with the Dumb And Dumber sequel they've been dreaming about since 1994, complete with original morons Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels. Seeing as how Jim Carrey has talked about the sequel before to the press, and Jeff Daniels…is around, the odds of this actually getting made are pretty good. In the meantime, I will throw down for the series' prequel Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd. It wasn't all that bad! [...]

Taxi Killer Starring Jane Lynch, and Nine Other Less Than Impressive Film Debuts

Not every actor can be as lucky as Jason Schwartzman and have their first film be Wes Anderson’s Rushmore (and first TV appearance, Freaks and Geeks). Below are 10 extremely famous, extremely wealthy, extremely talented comedians whose film (whether full-length or made-for-TV) debuts were anything but memorable.

Jim Carrey Joins The Office Season Finale

EW is reporting Jim Carrey will guest star on The Office final episode as yet another applicant for Michael Scott's vacant position. This makes me hope there are bigger and even more insane cameos we don't know about yet. Man, is everyone going to be so surprised when the job goes to Creed.

The Farrelly Brothers Are Planning a True Sequel to Dumb and Dumber

Sure, Dumb and Dumberer happened for some reason, but a real-deal sequel to the 1994 classic Dumb and Dumber is currently in the works. It would be again written/directed by the Farrelly Brothers and star Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels. You know, I'd be on board with this. Seeing these two characters twenty years older and probably not much wiser has the potential to be awesome. The again, this could just be Bobby Farrelly talking about something that has no chance of ever becoming a reality, so we'll see. [Dumb and Dumber] has run a bunch of times on TV in the states, and kids will come up [...]

Which Comedian Had the Greatest Five-Year Span of Films?

In the days leading up to the release of Tower Heist, one of the many, many stories I read about Eddie Murphy stated that from roughly 1982-1986, the actor had the greatest five-year stretch of any comedian, ever. The writer was including not only his gig as a cast member on Saturday Night Live, but also his stand-up routine and his films. That got me wondering whether, in fact, Murphy did have the best half-decade of all-time, with one exception: to only include movies. So, I looked at the filmography of every lauded, respected, and hilarious comedian (and I chose only people who we’d think of as comedians first, [...]

Jim Carrey Is Literally Magic In Steve Carell's Burt Wonderstone

While he's apparently still in negotiations, Deadline reports that we'll probably be seeing Jim Carrey in Burt Wonderstone, starring alongside Steve Carell as a member of the Las Vegas magician community. As it should be. While it's not entirely clear if Carrey will star as Carell's erstwhile partner or his new "hip street magician rival," Carrey's squirmy, manic energy seems pretty much made for an over-the-top magician role. A Criss Angel who's in on the joke, if you will.

Jim Carrey's Dog Story Reeks of Lies

Whenever I'm caught retelling anecdotes from Tom Hanks' personal life as if they actually happened to me, I usually blame Steven Spielberg, too. The man has too much knowledge not to somehow be involved. During Jim Carrey's Letterman interview last night, the actor finds himself at a loss for why their dog stories are just so damn similar. Hanks squirming through a wormhole to the future just to steal Carrey's bit seems like the most reasonable explanation to me too. Actually, what's the likelihood that every instance of joke thievery in recent memory involved a tesseract? Seems like someone owes Carlos Mencia a wave of apologies.

The Lost Roles of Jim Carrey

Casting is one of the most important processes in movie making. Placing the right actors in the right roles can determine whether or not an entire film rings true. Thus, casting directors and filmmakers consider a variety of possibilities before going into production. Lost Roles is a weekly series that examines the missed opportunities — the roles that could have been — and explores how some casting choices that almost happened could have changed the film industry and the comedy world, at large.

After spending the ‘80s as a standup comedian struggling to make a name for himself as an actor, Jim Carrey finally got his big break [...]

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