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Filming in September, The Angriest Man in Brooklyn is about a jerk patient who is mistakenly informed by his doctor that he only has 90 minutes to live. The patient tries to right a life's worth of wrongs, while the doctor tries to track him down and reveal his or her error. Sounds intense, right? Well, it's apparently supposed to be quite funny. Maybe the patient is also secretly a Genie, who besides thinking he's dying also does hilarious madcap impressions. Mila Kunis and Peter Dinklage will star alongside Williams. James Earl Jones and Melissa Leo will be in the film as well. They have yet to reveal [...]

Back in the summer of 2002, when Jimmy Fallon released his first and only album The Bathroom Wall, I was at the peak of mix CD-making phase. The albums weren’t for my friends or girlfriend (ha), but rather, for me, myself, and Josh. Mp3 players were still a few years away from becoming ubiquitous, so if I wanted to listen to multiple songs by a variety of artists, and not carry around my cumbersome, carefully alphabetized booklet of CDs, I had to make a mix for the 20-minute bus ride to school, and for the 40 it took to get back. (Don’t ask.) Rather than include anything cool, like [...]

Weddings! We wants them! Must have the weddings. Oh, sorry, just LOST MY DAMN GOLLUM MIND there for a minute thinking about Katherine Heigl's The Big Wedding, due out October 19, 2012. Robert De Niro and Diane Keaton co-star as "a long-divorced couple forced to pretend that they are still happily married at their son’s wedding." Because if those tricksy movie stars mess up our fantasy rom-com wedding, we will throw them into the Sammath Naur, we will.

Robin Williams will guest star in the season premiere of Wilfred on June 28. Which brings your reasons to watch FX on June 28 up to three million and one.

Guys, I gotta tell you, I love all the jokes about David Letterman's jihadists death threats. That bullet-proof vest that says "Not Dave" is really hitting the spot for some reason. If you happened to watch Dave last night, in addition to a little fatwa humor you got to see how Ashton Kutcher's Two And A Half Men role was indirectly predestined by an off-hand remark from Robin Williams. To That '70s Show dad Kurtwood Smith. In 1998. "He said, I only wish I could back and do a sitcom again," Kutcher explains. "And I never forgot that when I was on That ‘70s Show because I [...]

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.

Stand-up. Sitcom star. Oscar-winner. Few find the success that Robin Williams has achieved in so many different realms of show business. With a knack for [...]

Oscar frenzy has begun with the first official Academy Awards trailer from Funny or Die, starring Megan Fox and Josh Duhamel, with appearances by Billy Crystal, Robin Williams, and Robin Williams' Fu Manchu moustache. It's a departure from the usual clip-based trailer and looks like an effort to get people excited for a fresh, new, relevant Oscars. (By showing us that the host has been living in a stone-walled cave growing his hair out since 2003.)

The Hangover, Pt. II has grossed over $254 million since it was released on May 26, making it the third-highest grossing (domestic only) film of the year to date, wedged in-between Transformers: Dark of the Moon ($348 million) and Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides ($240 million). (Bridesmaids is #7, with $167 million.) As you can probably guess, the Hangover sequel is a rare R-rated comedy swimming in an unoriginal pool of children’s movies and big-budget action films, making 2011 not unlike pretty much every other year. In fact, over the past three decades plus, only 11 movies that someone under 17 would need a parent or adult [...]

Terry Jones, Monty Python member and director of Life of Brian and co-director (with Terry Gilliam) of Monty Python and the Holy Grail, is returning to work behind the camera in a new movie called Absolutely Anything.

He wrote the script with Gavin Scott, and it's set to star John Oliver from The Daily Show. Apparently he's also trying to get Robin Williams to voice a talking dog so, you know, that's something.

He's also reportedly reached out to fellow Pythons John Cleese, Michael Palin, Eric Idle and Terry Gilliam, which would be kind of amazing if he got them all on board. We'll see!