david alan grier-related stories
Posted Apr 8th 2009 12:19AM by Michael Pascua
Filed under: OpEd, Dancing With The Stars, Episode Reviews
(S08E09) I was jarred by the beginning of the show. I flip the channels and realize that right after the credits, the show started off with Lil Kim and Derek's performance. Wait, what? Gilles and Cheryl scored better by three points. No matter.
I'll admit that I skipped the performance in favor of
Adam Lambert. His performance on
American Idol was more interesting than five minutes of a dance I saw before. In the recap, we learned that last night Melissa ripped her dress, which is one of the reasons why she was thrown off.
Continue reading Dancing with the Stars: Week 5 Results
Posted Mar 11th 2009 6:02PM by Danny Gallagher
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, Cancellations, Reality-Free
This show went off the radar awhile back and left less traces of its existence than Amelia Earhart. But earlier today it came back, only to be blown out of the water.
David Alan Grier's African-American news satire
Chocolate News officially got the big ugly axe from Comedy Central. This has been their third attempt to create a specialty fake news
Daily Show such as
David Spade's Showbiz Show and the lesser-known
Sports Central that never made it past the pilot stage. And it certainly won't be the last.
So Comedy Central, have you lost your damn mind?
Continue reading Comedy Central cancels Chocolate News in their ongoing effort to clone The Daily Show
Posted Mar 10th 2009 12:30AM by Michael Pascua
Filed under: Celebrities, Dancing With The Stars, Episode Recaps
(S08E01) After hearing the lineup of "celebrities" that were performing, I was definitely on the fence. Then Jewel and Nancy O'Dell dropped out, and I was excited to see how Holly Madison and Melissa Rycroft would perform with less time than everyone else.
It floors me that these two looked better than several of the men. There was the most evil of glares coming from Jewel during the whole show. After the jump, a quick rundown of all the performances.
Continue reading Dancing With the Stars: Week 1
Posted Apr 18th 2007 11:31AM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, Video, Celebrities
Harland Williams was the only funny thing about Monday night's episode of
Thank God You're Here. And he was so damn funny that my abs got a workout as I laughed my way through his entire improved scene. Unlike the other players, who waited to see what the stage actors had planned for them, Harland walked into the scene and took control.
Harland got a little dirty near the end (improv ain't funny 'less it's dirty, folks) and NBC censored him several times. In fact, the very end of his scene had a joke completely edited out because the censors apparently couldn't make it fly by just bleeping him. Did anyone else find it interesting that the censors left in references to drugs, but edited out the sexual references?
The edited portion of his scene is
in this video. And the uncensored version of another part of his scene
is here. Both videos are also after the jump.
Continue reading Harland Williams uncensored - VIDEO
Posted Mar 10th 2007 7:07PM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, Celebrities, Comedy Central
Fake news must be Comedy Central's bread-and-butter these days. The network has no fewer than three fake news shows:
The Daily Show,
The Colbert Report, and
The Showbiz Show with David Spade. Now it's considering a fourth faux news program for its lineup. This time, it's
The Chocolate News, starring David Alan Grier.
David Alan Grier is one of the funniest comedians out there right now, but nothing ever seems to stick for him. He was hilarious on Bonnie Hunt's short-lived show,
Life With Bonnie, and on
In Living Color back in the early 1990s. Mostly, though, he just plays great supporting roles or guest stars on current television shows.
Grier is currently rounding up writers and other talent to appear in the pilot he's pitching to Comedy Central. He has also agreed to host a new improv show on NBC this spring called
Thank God You're Here.
[Via
TV Tattle]
Posted Jan 20th 2007 2:03PM by Julia Ward
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, NBC, Programming, Game Show, Pickups and Renewals
NBC has ordered six episodes of celebrity improv competition
Thank God You're Here. The series, which was originally produced in Australia, is being described as
Whose Line is it Anyway? meets
Let's Make a Deal. Celebrity guests will choose one of several doors to open. Behind each door, a comedy sketch they know nothing about is being performed. Whether they stumble into an operating room, a motorcycle race or an undersea adventure, they'll be greeted by the line, "Thank God you're here!" From that point, the celeb is on his or her own. Their performances will be judged by
Kids in the Hall alum Dave Foley and host David Alan Grier.
Continue reading NBC orders Thank God You're Here
Posted Jan 17th 2007 1:20PM by Joel Keller
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Other Comedy Shows, NBC, Industry, Law and Order, My Name Is Earl, The Office, Heroes, Pickups and Renewals, TCA Press Tour
NBC Entertainment president Kevin Reilly started his network's portion of the TCA press tour by announcing full-season renewals for four shows:
My Name Is Earl, Heroes, Law & Order: SVU, and The Office. This means all four shows will be back for new seasons in the fall. Reilly called those shows, and a number of others, "tent posts" that he thinks will bring the network back to a much stronger position than it has been in recent years.
In other news, Reilly announced the pickup of a new improv pilot called
Thank God You're Here, where improv comics will don a costume unknown to them, enter a scene, and attempt to improvise through it. It will be hosted by David Alan Grier, and the improv comic's skills will be "judged" by Dave Foley. Where does the name of the show come from? Well, when the comic enters with his costume on, the other comics in the scene will say, "Thank God You're Here!" Clever, ain't it?
More on the executive session later today.
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