Posts with tag JimCarrey
Posted Jul 18th 2008 1:26PM by Richard Keller
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, Saturday Night Live, The Simpsons, Video, Retro Squad, TV Squad Lists, Reality-Free
Do not adjust your web browser. You are now entering the Retro Squad, where we are reviewing past episodes of classic TV shows.
The original version of Star Trek has been a show with two faces. On the one face, it was a serious show that dramatized the good and glorious future we humans could have after we screwed everything up (though, with so many wars going on around the galaxy, how good and glorious could it be?). On the other face, at least to some, it was a campy science fiction show that featured poor special effects, bad acting, and tunics that really didn't hold up to space travel too well.
Since the show left the airwaves in 1969, that second face is the one that television shows throughout the decades have parodied. Whether it be the original series itself, or the subsequent movies, or the conventions that sprung up from this show that lasted only 79 episodes. Shows both animated and live-action have found ways to skewer the show's, and its fans', good intentions. After the jump you'll find a few examples of those parodies either to laugh with or be angry at.
Continue reading Star Trek: the television parodies - VIDEOS
Posted Jun 20th 2008 4:21PM by Kristin Sample
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, Programming, OpEd, Celebrities, Casting, Reality-Free
Jim Carrey, Lisa Lampanelli, and Kario Salem are set to produce a half-hour HBO pilot. Lampanelli will star as a woman who inherits a famous comedy club in Los Angeles, presumably one like
Shore's Comedy Store on the Sunset Strip where Carrey himself got his start. According to Variety, "the central character is a
Mitzi Shore type, a woman who unexpectedly becomes the owner of a comedy club and is forced to play a maternal role in the dysfunctional lives of the club's clutch of resident comics." This sounds interesting. I'm looking forward to Lampanelli in a lead role. I know she's can be nasty but she's very quick-witted and has great delivery.
Carrey is currently shooting
I Love You Phillip Morris with co-star Ewan McGregor. He recently finished
Yes Man, a Warner Bros. comedy, and
A Christmas Carol, a Robert Zemekis film for Disney. Lampanelli, who has been a regular guest on
Howard Stern and
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, recently signed a deal with Harper Collins for a book entitled
The World According to Lisa: The Queen of Mean's Guide to the Universe.
Posted Mar 12th 2008 11:00PM by Jason Hughes
Filed under: American Idol, Reviewcaps, Contestants, Episode Reviews
(S07E21) 
For the first in a season full of hour-long
American Idol results show, I'll give
Idol credit for filling it pretty well. It was nice to see past runner-up Katharine McPhee perform on the
Idol stage again, as well as the video footage of the
Idols reacting to their sudden fame. What they need to do is turn the Results show into more of a classic variety show. And keep those past
Idol contestants coming, too.
American Idol has been around long enough now that it has it's own legacy and tradition, so keep honoring that.
As for the results, while the person who left wasn't necessarily the consensus choice, it was someone that I'm perfectly alright with seeing leave at this early stage. In fact, I could have lost the whole "Bottom Three" tonight and not lost any sleep over it.
Continue reading American Idol: Top 11 Revealed
Posted Feb 27th 2008 9:20AM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: TV on the Bigscreen, The Office, Celebrities, Emmys
Last week,
The Office's Steve Carell attended
WonderCon 2008, talking about his new movie
Get Smart. The picture, which is based on the 1965 NBC (and later CBS) TV series of the same name, will be appearing in theaters around the country on June 20, 2008. While saying that he tried not to channel Don Adams's performance so he could bring something different to the role, in an IESB.net
interview with Carell, he said that before he got the part of Maxwell Smart, Agent 86, of CONTROL, both Jim Carrey and Will Ferrell were considered. The film had actually been in development for nearly a decade. Steve recalled going to Warner Brothers for a reading about three years ago. "It was the most surreal moment, because I went in thinking I was just going to audition for a role. I didn't expect them to offer me the part of Maxwell Smart."
Continue reading Get Steve - Carell talks about the new Get Smart movie
Posted Feb 20th 2007 12:42PM by Elizabeth Chan
Filed under: NBC, FOX, CBS, Late Night, American Idol, CSI, CSI: Miami, CSI: New York, The 4400, Talk Show
Jim Carrey has been doing the talk show circuits to promote his new movie The Number 23. I'm always waiting for him to mention Lost's Easter eggs, but it seems that he sure loves himself some David Caruso and CSI.
In his visit to The Late Show With David Letterman, Carrey's exuberant comedic personality came out to play and he paid homage to David Caruso by doing his own impressions of the CSI actor.
If you're Jim Carrey, all you need is a good pair of sunglasses and a line from your favorite cartoon!
And in other Top 5 news, if you're looking for someone to say that they have never seen Paula Abdul drink...
Continue reading TV's Top 5!: Jim Carrey does David Caruso
Posted Dec 21st 2006 5:08PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Programming
At 8, FOX has a new 'Til Death, followed by new episodes of The War At Home and The O.C. - CBS has Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer at 8.
- NBC has a new Identity at 8, then repeats the Xmas eps of The Office and My Name Is Earl.
- ABC Family has Jim Carrey in How The Grinch Stole Christmas at 8.
- ESPN has the Pioneer Purevision Las Vegas Bowl at 8, BYU vs. Oregon.
- Also at 8: VH-1 has the Big In '06 Awards.
- At 9, Lifetime has the movie A Town Without Christmas.
- At 10:30, TV Land has a Christmas episode of The Jeffersons.
- At 11, the History Channel has Christmas Unwrapped: The History of Christmas.
Posted Nov 2nd 2006 5:07PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Programming
At 8, ABC has a new Ugly Betty, followed by new episodes of Grey's Anatomy and Six Degrees. - CBS has a new Survivor, then new episodes of CSI and Shark.
- NBC has new eps of My Name Is Earl, The Office, Deal Or No Deal, and ER.
- FOX has a new 'Til Death at 8, followed by new episodes of Happy Hour and The O.C.
- There's a new Smallville on The CW at 8, then a new Supernatural.
- Also at 8: FX has Jim Carrey in Me, Myself & Irene (excellent soundtrack).
- At 9, Sundance has a new Iconoclasts, with Mikhail Baryshnikov and Alice Waters.
- Food Network has a new Throwdown with Bobby Flay at 10.
- At 10:30, Comedy Central has a new Freak Show.
Posted Feb 10th 2006 2:34PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Programming
The big news tonight is the 2 hour Arrested Development marathon on FOX at 8pm. Final four eps. - ABC has the Dancing With The Stars results, followed by a new In Justice and a repeat
Primetime.
- All repeats on CBS tonight: Ghost Whisperer, Close To Home, Numb3rs.
- Oh, more big news tonight: The Olympics start on NBC at 8.
- UPN has Smackdown! at 8.
- New on the Sci-Fi Channel starting at 8: Stargate SG-1, Stargate Atlantis, and
Battlestar Galactica.
- HGTV has a new Get Color at 8, followed by a new Design Remix, a repeat Double
Take, a new Freestyle, and two repeats of House Hunters.
- 8pm movies: AMC has one of my favs, The Day The Earth Stood Still, A&E has Batman
Returns, FLIX has Blue Sky, and HBO has True Lies.
- FX is running a That 70s Show marathon.
- At 9, Michael W. Smith is the guest on Larry King Live on CNN.
- TBS has Jim Carrey in The Mask at 9, followed by The Cable Guy.
- ESPN2 has new boxing at 9, followed by new soccer.
- Also at 9: SPEED has a new NASCAR Live.
- On IFC at 10: repeats of Hopeless Pictures, Greg The Bunny, then Dinner For Five.
- Also at 10: TMC has Pursued, with Christian Slater and Gil Bellows, followed by Delores
Clairborne.
- Around 10:40 or so, STARZ has Joan Cusack and Michelle Trachtenberg in Ice Princess.
- Just in time for February 4, a repeat Emeril Live shows us a "Chocolate Lover's Valentine's
Day." It's on Food Network at midnight.
Posted Dec 23rd 2005 10:28AM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, NBC, News, Talent, OpEd
I wish I would have seen this so I could have a better perspective on it for you but, alas, I do not watch the
Today show if I can help it. So, I'm just going on an
article and a
slideshow
here. On Tuesday, when Katie Couric was outside interviewing Bonnie Hunt about her new movie,
Cheaper by the Dozen
2, Jim Carrey appeared in the crowd and hijacked the whole segment. Jim had been on the show earlier, promoting
his new movie,
Fun with Dick and Jane. Of course, he's a funny guy and he made everyone laugh. It was probably
pretty darn funny and the crowd looks like they just went nuts when he started interacting with them. He gave crowd
members hugs and dug through the toy box. Luckily, Bonnie Hunt is a true class act. Once she realized the cameras had
all turned to Jim and his mugging, she joined in with him and
started
dancing around the staging area. Oh well, it was probably more interesting than yet another interview about yet
another movie opening over the holidays.
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