MitchRouse-related stories
Posted Jun 28th 2008 2:09PM by Annie Wu
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, Programming, OpEd, In the Limelight, Celebrities, Reality-Free
No, it's not Adrien Brody's snarky older brother. It's
David Pasquesi, one of the stars of Spike TV's first original half-hour comedy,
The Factory.
Looking at
Pasquesi's IMDb page, he's done a fair amount of TV and film work, but the majority of his experience comes from both theater and improv. He currently does shows and occasionally teaches at Chicago's IO (Improv Olympic). Back in the day, he honed his improv chops under the tutelage of the legendary Del Close and was part of the class that developed The Harold. An improv geek's reaction to that would be "Holy crap!" and everyone else should be thinking, "Who's Harold?" Yeah, don't worry about it. If this interests you though, check out
this great interview he did back in '06, all about his work in improv.
Continue reading David Pasquesi: In the Limelight - VIDEOS
Posted May 22nd 2008 10:42AM by Annie Wu
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, OpEd, Video, The Daily Show, Celebrities, TV Squad Lists, Reality-Free
Hardcore Stephen Colbert fans might take one look at this list and scoff. To them I say, "Hey, girls who live on the
Colboards, chill out." This list is meant for the casual fan of
The Colbert Report, who loves the show and, at most, knows Colbert's history through
The Daily Show and maybe a little
Strangers with Candy.
As someone who has been a fan of Colbert for about eight years, I'm here to educate, here to spread the good Word. It is the duty of a good fan -- especially one with too much time on her hands -- to change the minds of people that see Colbert just as the TV blowhard who happens to share his name.
Continue reading Ten Colbert clips you probably haven't seen - VIDEOS
Posted Apr 29th 2008 9:40AM by Jane Boursaw
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, Casting, Reality-Free
Spike TV has
ordered six episodes of Factory, a largely improvised comedy revolving around four small-town factory workers who'd rather do anything than work at their boring jobs, according to a
Hollywood Reporter story. It will be the Guy Network's first original comedy series.
Set to premiere on June 29 at 10 p.m.,
Factory is directed, produced by, and stars Mitch Rouse (pictured), co-creator of
Strangers With Candy, the short-lived TV series that ran from 1999-2000, as well as the 2005 prequel feature film by the same name.
Rouse has an interesting list of credits. In addition to numerous feature films, he played Dr. Ryan Gibson on
According to Jim (come on, there must be someone out there who
watches this show), Fireman #1 on
Reno 911, and was a regular on
Exit 57, a mid-1990s comedy-sketch show.
Continue reading Spike gets its own comedy series
Posted Jun 14th 2007 3:03PM by Adam Finley
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, Celebrities
You might not recognize the name Mitch Rouse, but if you're a fan of Reno 911! and Strangers with Candy, you'd probably recognize his face. He's appeared on Reno 911! as the handsome lead firefighter in a few episodes, and has also shown up on Strangers with Candy playing a cop (he's also a co-creator fo the show along with Amy Sedaris, Paul Dinello and Stephen Colbert). In fact, his character has the first speaking role in the very first Strangers episode. Also, he's written a couple episodes for the series.
Strangers with Candy is one of my top three favorite shows of all time, and Reno 911! ain't too shabby, either, so I'm intrigued about The Factory, a new comedy Rouse is developing for Spike. The series has not been picked up yet, but Variety reports that it's close.
Continue reading Rouse creating new comedy for Spike
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