Will Ferrell has been nominated for a Golden Globe award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture (Musical/Comedy), for his role in Stranger Than Fiction.
Ferrell's competition includes Sacha Baron Cohen (Borat), Johnny Depp (Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest), Chiwetel Ejiofor (Kinky Boots), and Aaron Eckhardt (Thank You For Smoking).
The 64th annual Golden Globes will be awarded on January 15th, 2007.
Those of you disappointed with the paltry extras on this week's release of Saturday Night Live: The Complete First Season should be cruising around the web, as everyone seems to be coming out of the woodwork to talk about the show. In print, at least.
Hollywood.com recently spoke with Al Franken about his time on the show with writing partner Tom Davis:
HW: How did you get the SNL gig originally?
AF: I was 24, fresh off the comedy circuit with Tom. An agent saw us and asked us if we’d like to get jobs as writers, because we wrote all our own stuff and he thought it was really good. We needed money, of course, because we weren’t making that much money doing stand up and were actually interested in writing. So we said sure. We put together a portfolio of stuff, which included a news segment, a commercial parody, a sketch, a film thing, and we got hired. We showed up, the first day of Saturday Night Live in July of 1975, and I met Chevy [Chase] and Gilda [Radner]. I turned to Tom and said, “Oh, this is going to be a giant hit!”
Continue reading "Looking Back at SNL's First Year with Al Franken"...
With Jennifer Connelly, from the recent GQ Man of the Year Awards...
While browsing through clips on YouTube recently, I came across a user named pillywright. Pillywright has only five clips uploaded, all of them featuring Dana Carvey. The clips are very recent, and I've never seen them before.
Two of the clips are fake "breaking news segments". The other three are brief political bits featuring Dana doing voices for paper cutouts. Two of the clips are preceeded by a slate that reads "Dana Carvey Presents A Live Riff Production".
So, what exactly are these? Advance clips for an upcoming television show? A new web project? Anyone know?
Nudist Resort Invites Will Ferrell to 5K ‘Streak’
Paradise Lakes, America's premier nudist resort, has extended an invite to actor Will Ferrell to reprise his movie role of "Frank the Tank" from "Old School" and participate in Saturday's "Sneaker Streaker 5K' clothing-optional race around the 72-acre property on Saturday, Nov. 18 at 8 a.m.
Ferrell’s role as Frank “The Tank” Ricard in the 2003 film Old School included a memorable scene in which Ricard ran nude across a college campus shouting, “We’re streaking!” In real life, Ferrell completed the Boston Marathon that same year. Paradise Lakes extended an invitation to Ferrell via his representatives earlier this month and is awaiting a reply.
“We can’t think of anyone more appropriate to lead our 5K streak,” says Sabrina Vizzari, race director for the Sneaker Streaker 5K, which is expected to draw about 150 runners to the nudist resort, located just north of Tampa. “Unlike in “Old School,” he’ll have plenty of people running behind him.”
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Former Saturday Night Live cast member Jim Breuer is taking his stand-up act on the road.
In addition to college appearances at New York's Adelphi University on November 17th and at Rutgers University in New Jersey on November 30th, he'll also be a part of the South Beach Comedy Festival along with Jon Stewart, Hal Sparks, Roseanne, Margaret Cho, Bill Maher and others. Check out the South Beach Comedy Festival website for more details.
Breuer has gained immense popularity as a result of his show “Jim Breuer Unleashed” on Sirius Satellite Radio. The show is the 2nd most popular on the network next to Howard Stern, and this month marks Breuer’s 2nd anniversary with Sirius.
The “Comedy Street” tour which is part of the “Heavy Metal Comedy” tour will also feature Breuer who will be backed by a full band. He will be performing some of his most popular comedic sketches such as “Metallica’s ‘If You’re Happy and You Know It,’” and “AC/DC’s 'Hokey Pokey.'” The location of this tour will be announced soon.
Breuer has another new gig as well. He will be the new host of the VH1 show “Web Junk 20,” replacing Patrice O’Neal. The premiere episode of the show with Breuer at the helm debuts on Nov. 16 at 12 a.m.
Dan Aykroyd, one of the very original "Not Ready for Prime Time Players" on Saturday Night Live, recently visited a Canadian school after the elementary school kids had watched Ghostbusters. He took the opportunity to encourage the students to write.
"My time is past. I'm old, I've done my thing," he told them. "But how do you think movies like that get written? Because I had an idea in my head as a young man. I put it out there ... It became a reality.
"What you dream is what you can become. You have that power."
"The reason I'm here today, the reason I own a brand new Harley-Davidson motorcycle and the reason I have a big log cabin and I got cars and all kinds of stuff is because I'm a writer and writers own everything," he said.
"So you learn how to write. You keep writing and you can write articles, movies, TV screenplays, books, essays."
Continue reading "Dan Aykroyd Thrills Halifax Kids With Inspiring Visit"...
People.com let its readers come up with questions for Will Ferrell recently. Here's a sampling:
You played music a lot on SNL. Do you secretly wish you were a rock star?
I don't have that thing where rock stars want to be comedians and comedians want to be rock stars. If anything, I would love to be a really lame pop star in a foreign country. What David Hasselhoff is to Germany, I would love to be to, like, Poland. I would love to flood Eastern Europe with insipid pop songs.
What kind of things make you laugh?
Inappropriate behavior makes me laugh. Yelling at people for no reason in a public place. Yet I don't think that I am such a fan of the Jackass-brand of inappropriate behavior. I prefer clever inappropriate behavior, where you don't necessarily wound yourself.
Why do you like to run around in your underwear in your movies?
I am not an exhibitionist by any means, but it really seems to bug people. So for that reason alone I am going to keep doing it.
Former Saturday Night Live writer (and Mr. Show co-creator/genius) Bob Odenkirk has directed a new movie called Let's Go To Prison, which opens on November 22nd. Along with an appearance by Odenkirk it also features former SNL alumni David Koechner and Jerry Minor.
Odenkirk is already at work directing his next film called The Brothers Solomon, written by and co-starring SNL's Will Forte. Also appearing with Forte are fellow SNL cast members Kristen Wiig and Bill Hader.
Solomon is currently scheduled for release in August 2007. VH1.com has a feature article about the making of the film which is a highly entertaining read.
Continue reading "SNL, Arrested Development Stars Refine Lewd Humor On Solomon Set"...
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