Ben Stiller will star in, direct, and executive produce a comedy pilot for HBO called All Talk. Written by Jonathan Safran Foer, it's about "the daily and life-altering dramas of a Jewish family in Washington, DC" and is being called “politically, religiously, culturally, intellectually and sexually irreverent.” That is a lot of ways to be irreverent. Let's see if I can be irreverent in all those ways in one sentence: "Hey Obama, Jesus, Broadway and Noam Chomsky: wanna fuck?" NAILED IT.
Paul Feig is on board to direct and executive produce an HBO pilot of his own, from Darren Star, the creator of Sex and the City. The [...]
Bridesmaids director Paul Feig was in the audience for Melissa McCarthy's SNL hosting gig, and here's how he remembers it:
I’d say the flash point moment for me was, you know, that Hidden Valley Ranch sketch which she'd done at the Groundlings for years. And always, one of the big gags was with that big bottle, picking it up and squirting it into her mouth like kind of emptying the whole thing in this kind of stream that she does. She just drags it and it’s always worked in the dress rehearsal. On air she picked it up, squeezed it and it explodes in her face. [That] never happened [...]
You know you’re in Canada when a shmuck like me is allowed into a star-studded comedy awards ceremony and the security guard actually apologizes for making me wait in line.
One of the premiere events at this year’s Just For Laughs Festival is the Awards Luncheon, which honored Modern Family Creators Steve Levitan and Christopher Lloyd for Comedy Writers of the Year, Ken Jeong for Breakout Comedy Star of the Year, Paul Feig for Comedy Director of the Year, Garry Shandling for the Lifetime Achievement Award, and Louis C.K. for Comedy Person of the Year.
Maybe “premiere event” is a little too strong. As MC and Comedy Central Roast [...]
We can all agree that success means nothing without a statuette of some kind to display prominently in your temperature-controlled Awards Nook. Luckily Ken Jeong and Paul Feig will be honored at the Just for Laughs festival in Montreal this month. Feig will be pulling down an award for comedy director of the year for Bridesmaids, while Jeong will be crowned with the breakout comedy start of the year tiara* for his fine work on Community.
*Note: is actually a trophy.
Here's director Paul Feig on the possibility of a sequel to Bridesmaids: "Who knows? I mean, it depends how we do in the next couple weeks, but I know there's definitely… it's already been brought up. So, um, you know, when you get a group that's this deep and this good, it's a crime to not use them again. You just want to make sure that you do it as well as you did the first one and try to make it better, even. So, we're up for the challenge."
