Posts with tag ben stein
Posted Mar 29th 2008 10:06AM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Industry, Programming, Web, Celebrities
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Posted Mar 19th 2008 12:03PM by Joel Keller
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, The Daily Show, Interviews
In the last twelve years,
Lewis Black has gone from being "that angry guy on
The Daily Show" to a comedy icon. Now, he finally has his own show.
In
Lewis Black's Root of All Evil, which airs on Wednesdays at 10:30 PM ET on Comedy Central, two comedians argue why the pop culture item they represent is "the root of all evil." Last week's premiere episode, for instance, pitted Oprah against the Catholic church. Black plays the judge who controls the proceedings and makes the ultimate verdict. Sounds corny, but the first episode, which featured Paul F. Tompkins and Greg Giraldo, was wickedly funny and just a tiny bit subversive, everything you want in a good comedy.
I spoke to Black by phone last week; he was in Atlantic City on his stand-up tour. We discussed everything from the 2008 election to being on a cable news show with Ben Stein to sharing a jail cell with
Jim Norton. The interview is after the jump.
Continue reading Lewis Black: The TV Squad interview
Posted Jun 21st 2007 3:01PM by Adam Finley
Filed under: Other Reality Shows, Music and Variety, Celebrities, Game Show, Pickups and Renewals
Do you miss Ben Stein? Of course you do. Well, the former Nixon speech writer, former host of Win Ben Stein's Money, and former guy who said "Bueller?" is returning to television as the host of America's Most Smartest Model, a series that will determine if being beautiful also means you have the cognitive ability of a lump of Play-Doh. The competition series, co-hosted by Mary Alice Stephenson, pits seven male models and seven female models against one another to determine who's the most intelligent. The winner gets $100,000.
Continue reading Baio, Bonaduce, Stein and models with brains heading to VH1
Posted Mar 13th 2007 12:02PM by Adam Finley
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, Celebrities
The lackluster response to FOX News' Half Hour News Hour and the continued popularity of The Daily Show and The Colbert Report have led many to conclude that liberals are funny, and conservatives are not.
I say that's a load of hogwash. It's not about being liberal, conservative, libertarian, or whatever else you happen to be. It's about being funny, or not being funny. To paraphrase something comic Doug Stanhope once told me during an interview: 'if you're good, and you're funny, you can find work.'
That's it. You want to be a stand up comic? Be funny. You want to make a funny TV show people will love? Then make a funny TV show people will love.
All that being said, here are three funny conservatives I admire, not because they're conservative, but because they make me laugh:
Continue reading Funny conservatives - VIDEO
Posted Sep 7th 2006 11:01AM by Joel Keller
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, ABC, Late Night, Talent, Interviews, Celebrities, The Daily Best, Talk Show
At the end of my conversation with Jimmy Kimmel, I fired off a question that's
been bugging me since my first days at TV Squad: "Why did you start wearing a tie?"
Unfortunately, Jimmy had a meeting to attend, so all he could say before politely kicking me off the phone was "It's a long story." But it's understandable that he might not have time to go over his sartorial choices. His late-night talk show,
Jimmy Kimmel Live!, has just been picked up for
a fifth season, and his first prime-time special,
Jimmy Kimmel Live's All-Star Salute to Jimmy Kimmel Live!, will air on ABC on September 13 at 10 PM. In addition, he has just been named host of a new ABC game show called
Set for Life. Oh, and he's also planning his football-watching activities for this coming Sunday (as you'll see, it's quite involved).
I spoke to the 38-year-old host on Tuesday about his football parties, his flirtatious relationship with Ben Stein, and other topics, all of which you can find after the jump.
Continue reading Jimmy Kimmel: The TV Squad Interview
Posted Mar 25th 2006 9:18PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Talent, Industry, Site Announcements, Celebrities
Posted Jan 24th 2006 10:34AM by Adam Finley
Filed under: Cable, Late Night, OpEd, Short-Lived Shows
Ben Stein was not the first person to try and
reinvent the celebrity talk show, and he's also not the first to have failed. Whoopi Goldberg and Chevy Chase each had
spectacular failures in the world of late night gab fests before Ben Stein followed his successful game show
Win
Ben Stein's Money with
Turn Ben Stein On in 1999.
Continue reading Short-Lived Shows: Turn Ben Stein On
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