cheri oteri-related stories
Posted Oct 26th 2009 11:00AM by Joel Keller
Filed under: Saturday Night Live, Interviews, Celebrities, 30 Rock, Reality-Free
As my Thursday afternoon time slot to interview
Tracy Morgan came closer, I knew I was in for an interesting twenty minutes. As most people have seen and heard over the years, interviewing Tracy is an amusement park ride that even Busch Gardens couldn't conceive. He's blunt. His emotions rise and fall quicker than a roller coaster. And you never know what he's going to say.
When I got to talk to him, he had been interviewing all day in support of his surprisingly emotional and inspirational memoir
I Am The New Black, and he was tired. But there was a lot of stuff I wanted to ask him about, only some of which involved his well-publicized
smackdowns of SNL co-stars Cheri Oteri and Chris Kattan. There was also his criticism of David Israel and Jim O'Doherty, the creators of
The Tracy Morgan Show, and just the general details about his rough upbringing in the Bronx and Brooklyn in the '70s and '80s.
Tracy didn't disappoint.
So, buckle up folks, and get ready for a fun ride. Audio and a transcript is after the jump.
Continue reading Tracy Morgan: The TV Squad Interview
Posted Oct 14th 2009 7:25PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Celebrities, 30 Rock, Reality-Free
Tracy Morgan has a new tell-all book,
I Am The New Black, coming out next week (and he's doing some crazy stuff on
his new Twitter page), and one of the things that fans will find out are his true feelings for some of his old
Saturday Night Live castmates.
He talks about what he could have brought to the NBC late night show, but that they didn't really listen to him. Instead, he says they... "felt bad for me. None of the cast I came up with saw this future for me. No sir. All I have to say about that is, where's Chris Kattan now? Where's Cheri Oteri now? That bitch can't get arrested."
Continue reading Tracy Morgan talks about old SNL castmates in his new book
Posted Apr 19th 2009 9:31PM by Kona Gallagher
Filed under: Animation, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free
(S01E01) I still stand behind the
early look of Sit Down, Shut Up I did a few days ago: the pilot was underwhelming. For everything that works about it, there seem to be at least two things that don't. However, before I did this review, I decided to watch the pilot again, so it would be fresh in my mind. What I found is that the show definitely grows on you.
While I didn't really laugh at all the first time through, re-watching it allowed me to pick up on some of the more subtle things that I missed. That, combined with the fact that I've seen the second episode, which is much better, really made me appreciate this episode more.
Continue reading Sit Down, Shut Up: Pilot (series premiere)
Posted Apr 17th 2009 5:02PM by Kona Gallagher
Filed under: Animation, Early Looks, Reality-Free
I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one who has been breathlessly anticipating
Sit Down, Shut Up (premiering on FOX Sunday at 8:30 PM ET), the newest series from
Arrested Development creator
Mitch Hurwitz.
SDSU is an animated series based on a live-action Australian show by the same name. It follows a group of under-performing teachers at a Florida high school.
The teachers are all flaky, disinterested in their students, and with the exception of Larry Littlejunk (
Jason Bateman), highly under-qualified for their positions. An example? Miracle Grohe (
Kristen Chenoweth), the science teacher, beat Larry out of the job by stripping off all her clothes and yelling, "I ain't come from no monkey!"
The humor manages to be both broad and subtle at the same time, much in the way
Arrested Development managed to be. However, though Bateman himself calls this show an animated version of
AD, that's overstating it a bit.
Sit Down, Shut Up, is more like
Arrested Development's annoying younger brother.
Continue reading Sit Down, Shut Up -- An early look
Posted Jun 25th 2006 10:32AM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: TV Royalty, Talent, Industry, Programming, Celebrities
On the cover: race car driver Dale Earnhardt, Jr. has a "revved-up attitude."- An interview with The Dead Zone's Sean Patrick Flannery.
- Michael Ausiello talks with Cheri Oteri and finds out what happened to that show she was going to do with J.J. Abrams.
- Matt Roush isn't too thrilled with the TV version of Blade.
- In the print edition only: a Q and A with House star Lisa Edelstein; a diary from the set of The 4400; everything you wanted to know about So You Think You Can Dance; a guide to all the crazy plots on the soaps this summer; and a guest column from Garrison Keillor.
Posted Feb 24th 2006 8:38AM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, NBC, Talent, TV on DVD, Saturday Night Live
It's
Cheri Oteri, the actress who spent five years on
Saturday Night Live playing different variations of the same
character. She always played it wide-eyed and hyper. Want examples? Sure! There's Ariana the cheerleader, prescription
drug lady, old lady on the porch (was that Rita Delvecchio?), and even Mickey the Dyke. Although, I did enjoy her in
the morning news spoof she did with Will Ferrell when the teleprompter went out and they resorted to cannibalism. And,
I know the women haven't received a fair shake on the show, but she's downright annoying. Give me a
Best of
Jane Curtin or Jan Hooks or Nora Dunn!
I've already got the Christopher Walken (just for the cowbell)
and Will Ferrell 'best of's and if I were to add a DVD to my collection, it would have to be Phil Hartman. Best
character actor. Ever.
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