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Yesterday we brought you Part I of our 20 favorite coming-of-age characters from movies and TV, spanning from 1985's Claire "The Princess" Standish to 2007's Seth from Superbad. Here are our ten remaining picks to further rouse your high school nostalgia and embarrassment, featuring everyone from the uptight best friend to the popular girl-turned-murderer.
There's your typical car buying experience – and then there's the MINI USA buying experience. As part of their NOT NORMAL SALES EVENT, MINI USA set up hidden cameras in a MINI dealership, and then sprung a few surprises on customers to see if they shared MINI’s love of all things Not Normal. Watch the video below to see their reactions and just how Not Normal it can get at MINI dealerships throughout the US this month. Can you say "breakdancing bear?"
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The advertising industry is inherently aspirational. Commercials create a fantasy that elicit both desire for a possibility and disappointment in the reality. We don’t buy the product, we buy into the idea the product promises us. Depending how you look at it, life is either nothing but anticlimax, or rife with opportunity. By making a purchase, we are refusing to settle for the former. Happiness is that thing before [...]
The ANA Alliance for Family Entertainment, a group of some of the country’s largest national advertisers, is looking for the freshest take on what’s real — and really funny — about today’s American family.
We helped bring Gilmore Girls, Everybody Hates Chris, Friday Night Lights and 20 other shows you love to TV, and we’ve awarded more than 50 scholarships to young screenwriters at leading universities across the country.
Now we’re looking for the next great story featuring the modern American family.
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Ryan Quincy has been working in animation for well over a decade. He spent 12 years on South Park (he's featured in the behind-the-scenes documentary 6 Days to Air) and now he's taking his original characters to IFC in his new animated series Out There (which premieres tonight at 10:30/9:30c on IFC). I had a chance to chat with Quincy about the show, his "out there" character designs, and fainting in sex ed class.
Tell us what Out There is all about, and how it came to IFC.
Out There is about two best [...]
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It’s a cliché at this point, the idea that comedians are damaged individuals who only perform comedy so that they can score enough laughs to keep their inner demons at bay, but that doesn’t mean it’s false. While there are plenty of well-adjusted, functional people who perform and write comedy, there are just as many who use their mental health issues as fuel and motivation. But can baring one’s soul onstage serve as a substitute for therapy, or is laughter just a temporary salve on permanent psychological wounds?
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We all share the common problem of finding ourselves with multiple consecutive weeks of vacation time, unlimited access to a free car, and a pocketful of disposable income every summer, right? Because June is here, and there’s no better time of year to kick-off a comedy pilgrimage to some of the greatest clubs in America! U-S-A, U-S-A! All you need is a couple of free weeks and a license to laugh.
Have we got a four-city tour for you of some of the best comedy clubs our fine [...]
Doritos' Crash The Super Bowl program is back, and this year we're taking on Hollywood. The basic premise of the Crash The Super Bowl remains the same — Doritos challenges consumers to step up and create an Ad Meter-topping Super Bowl spot. Then, America votes on their pick of which spot makes it into the big game. The twist this year: the lucky finalist is going head-to-head with some of the funniest dudes in Hollywood. If THEY take the top spot, Doritos will donate $1 million to the charity of their choice. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for aspiring filmmakers to get their spot in the most-watched [...]
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While the fringe jackets and bell bottoms may have changed to purple leather, poofy hair, and shoulder pads and the soundtracks have evolved from The Partridge Family to Tom Petty to Simple Minds, transitioning from adolescence to adulthood is a universal experience, and you can learn a lot about someone (more specifically, which decade they grew up) based on their favorite coming-of-age films and television shows. In anticipation of IFC's new series Out There, here's a two-part look at 20 memorable characters who came of age onscreen, in no particular order.
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Building an effective stage persona is the key to becoming a great stand-up comedian, and it’s a process that can take years — even decades — to complete. While some stand-ups act pretty close to how they behave off-stage, others create vastly different identities for their acts. Some even go as far as treating their stage persona as a character — an entirely separate entity. Despite the many differences between comedians who act like their real selves onstage and those who don’t, both groups typically use their real selves as [...]
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