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Trailers

The New 21 Jump Street Trailer Is the Longest Trailer Ever

by | March 6th, 2012

Four minutes and 43 seconds has got to be brushing up against some records for longest movie trailer ever. But while not all comedies might be able to pull it off, this trailer makes 21 Jump Street look worthwhile even after watching five minutes of its best jokes. It's got all the Rob Riggle touching Jonah Hill's tongue of the original trailer, plus more angry Ice Cube, frustrated school principal Jake Johnson (who could easily be playing his New Girl character who's quit bartending), and Channing Tatum telling science to fuck itself while standing in front of a white board full of the number 4. In other words, [...]

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There's Officially Nothing Rob Riggle Can't Do

by | November 14th, 2011

Come ON, Rob Riggle. So you're a Marine and a former SNL cast member and Daily Show correspondent, and you also can just bend metal at will like you're Magneto or something? That's the story? Pffff. Whatever, Riggle. We've seen this all before. Let me guess, you're also a classically-trained chef? You've competed in the US Open in Men's Singles tennis? You speak fluent Japanese? You go to dinner with Madonna? You got a 2400 on your SATs? You designed a line of combat fatigues that Anna Wintour loved? You were Google's first outside investor? You never sunburn? Stop bragging, Riggle. We don't care.

Good News

Rob Riggle Gets HBO Development Deal, Stars In Lifestyle Lemonaid

by | August 2nd, 2011

As part of the excellent Rob Riggle's HBO development deal, he'll star in the upcoming comedy Lifestyle Lemonaid, a show based on a blog of the same name written by Nikki Joel, wife of WME talent agent Brandt Joel. In addition to blogging about fashion and "lifecasting," Joel uses Lifestyle to reveal the painfully intimate details of her husband's life, from his interest in a vasectomy to their "pull and pray" birth control method to his humiliating Christmas gift of adult-size footie pajamas. So, just the kind of thing to send a burly ex-Marine into an enraged fury.

Interviews

Rob Riggle Talks About Improv, the Internet and His Upcoming Projects

by | May 10th, 2011

Rob Riggle is a busy guy. The onetime Daily Show correspondent and SNL castmember has already built up a seriously impressive comedic resume, appearing in movies such as The Hangover, The Other Guys and Stepbrothers and shows such as 30 Rock, Arrested Development and The Office. And he's showing no signs of slowing down; he stars in a new CBS pilot produced by Mark Wahlberg, has a part in both Tom Hanks' upcoming Larry Crowne and Matt Walsh's High Road, and appears as the President of the Navy in Paul Scheer's upcoming NTSF:SD:SUV. I talked to him about everything he's got going on, how he stays in touch with [...]

Things With Potential

Rob Riggle and Robert Smigel Teaming Up for New CBS Comedy

by | November 19th, 2010

Rob Riggle, formerly of The Daily Show and SNL, is attached to a new show for CBS written by legendary SNL and Triumph the Insult Comic Dog writer Robert Smigel. Star/writer combos don't get much more promising than that.

The show, which is still untitled, "centers on a gregarious guy (Riggle) who winds up as a real estate agent working for the nerd he made fun of in high school." If there's anything Riggle plays well, its big, gregarious guys. Here's hoping this one makes it to air and can help counterbalance the Chuck Lorre juggernauts of mediocrity currently dominating the CBS comedy lineup.

Trailers

New Trailer Suggests That High Road May Be the Best Improvised Comedy of the Year

by | January 31st, 2012

Here's the latest trailer for Matt Walsh's improvised UCB movie High Road, featuring Ed Helms, Rob Riggle, Horatio Sanz, Kyle Gass, Abby Elliott, Lizzy Caplan and Zach Woods. It looks quite a bit more put-together this time around, with a plot and everything:

Glenn “Fitz” Fitzgerald (James F. Pumphrey) is a young man whose loyalties are split among his band, his girlfriend Monica (Abby Elliott) and selling weed. After his band breaks up, Fitz finds himself dealing pot out of his garage and bonding with 16-year-old neighborhood kid Jimmy (Dylan O’Brien). As his former band mates (Zach Woods, Matt L. Jones, Lizzy Caplan) begin finding success and [...]

Trailers

The Red-Band Trailer For 21 Jump Street Looks Pretty Great

by | November 2nd, 2011

Let's go ahead and declare this afternoon a high school comedy trailer double feature! Act One was Project X; Act Two is 21 Jump Street. The latter stars Jonah Hill, Channing Tatum, and Ellie Kemper, which we knew about, but there's also Nick Offerman and Rob Riggle. And Ice Cube, and Dave Franco. And a party! Duh, because parties are an essential staple of the high school comedy. As are drugs and pooping oneself. And those aren't even the best part of the trailer. (The best part of the trailer is when Ice Cube says "Twittersphere.")

Rises

Rob Riggle Talks About His Early Days with UCB, His "Oprah Story"

by | July 21st, 2011

Serial Optimist has an excellent interview with Rob Riggle today, in which he talks about his early career and how he transitioned from being a US Marine to one of the most in-demand comedic actors around. In particular, I love this anecdote:

I wrote down in this book, and to me at the time, quitting flight school was so hard for me, again I’d never quit anything in my life, it wasn’t sitting well with me to quit, so if I’m going to quit, it has to count. The first thing I wrote down in this book was that I’m going to get on Saturday Night Live. I [...]

Trailer

The New Trailer for High Road Is Even Darker

by | April 28th, 2011

That is some heavy shit to yes, and. The second High Road trailer is significantly bleaker than the High Road red band trailer. If anything, the new cut makes Matt Walsh's film look a little like an infinitely more realistic Knocked Up: unplanned pregnancy, police intervention and despair abound in the primarily improvised stoner flick. You know, as in actual life. On the flip side, you get to see more Zach Woods! The film premieres tomorrow at the Newport Beach Film Festival. "You're just a couple of liars in love. Maybe that's what makes you guys so perfect for each other," Lizzy Caplan's character opines to Abby [...]

Awesome Things

Riggle, Posehn, and Nanjiani Catapult To Hell and Back Beyond Great and Into Awesome

by | January 24th, 2012

Only January and already there's a lock on R-Rated Stop-Motion Animated Comedy of the Year. To Hell and Back, starring TJ Miller and Nick Swardson, just added Rob Riggle, Brian Posehn, and Kumail Nanjiani to its cast, and their roles sound pretty perfect:

Riggle will voice a 20-year-old who is finally growing up. Posehn will play an aging heavy metal fan trapped in the 80s (naturally). And Nanjiani will play “Sal the Demon, an employee in hell.”

Thought experiment: if every viewing of this heavenly movie required you to spend one year in hell, how many times would you see it? More or less than five?

SNL

Saturday Night's Children: Rob Riggle (2004-2005)

by | October 18th, 2011

Saturday Night Live has been home to over a hundred cast members throughout the past 35 years. In our column Saturday Night’s Children, we present the history, talent, and best sketches of one SNL cast member each week for your viewing, learning, and laughing pleasure.

Some SNL cast members don't find widespread success until after they leave the show, and that's the case for Rob Riggle, who was a featured player from 2004-2005 and left without much of a lasting impact in terms of characters, sketches, or impressions. SNL never figured out what to do with this tall, vaguely menacing, but ultimately hilarious Superman/soldier hybrid who's also a pilot [...]

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Alec Baldwin Is Joining Adam McKay's Ferrell/Wahlberg Football Comedy

by | May 20th, 2011

Looks like Alec Baldwin is joining what was formally known as The Turkey Bowl and is currently known as Three Mississippi as "Wahlberg’s father, a Kennedys-obsessed dive bar owner who pushes his family into an annual Thanksgiving football game with Ferrell’s clan across town, which they always lose." Also on board: Rob Riggle as Wahlberg's gay cousin and, apparently, Jeremy Renner. I am looking forward to all those boston accents!

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Rob Riggle to Star in Mark-Wahlberg-Produced Pilot for CBS

by | February 14th, 2011

CBS has been trying to find a show for Rob Riggle to star in for a while, and it looks like they've found it in Home Game, which they've just ordered to pilot. The project is produced by Mark Wahlberg and Stephen Levinson and will be, unsurprisingly for CBS, a multicam affair. Here's what to expect, story-wise: "The project, loosely based on the experiences of former NFL star Mark Schlereth, centers on Mark (Riggle), a retired NFL player who returns home to his wife Lisa (Constance Zimmer) and daughters."

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