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Ian Bagg Returns
Tweet Ian Bagg’s Comedy Central special premiered just seven days after his interview with Trashwire writer Wil Chinchilla in 2007. Since then he has grown from a comedian with not much of a following to inspiring the crowd in Houston to come to three of his shows at the Houston Improv to simply see what he would say differently in each show. As Bagg continues on the road to fame, he advises all up and coming comedians: “Stay outta my way! And try to remember the reasons why you got into comedy.” With dreams set on an animated series and sights focused on working with famed producer Judd Apatow, Bagg is certainly in the fast lane to success. Wil: A whole year has past since I got to talk to you, … Read entire article »
Filed under: Comedy
Was ‘Cloverfield’ shot with Britney-cam?
Tweet It seems like a great idea: a post-9/11 disaster flick with aliens. After watching the emotional footage from Ground Zero, much of it shot by average people, it’s easy to see how that could inspire a new style of cinematography for narrative film. Combine that with America’s love for action movies (as evidenced by Transformers) and you should have the formula for an amazing film. Unfortunately, Matt Reeves‘ Cloverfield begins like an episode of The Hills … Read entire article »
Filed under: Movies
Delightfully awkward ‘Eagle vs Shark’ now on DVD
Tweet [kml_flashembed movie="http://youtube.com/v/-xVMkqaOUS0" width="300" height="225" wmode="transparent" align="right" /] Eagle vs Shark, a brilliant comedy from New Zealand director Taika Waititi, is the story of Lily, played by Loren Horsley, a socially awkward woman who works at a fast food restaurant called Meaty Boy. Lily harbors a major crush on equally awkward Jarrod, played to perfection by Jemaine Clement of Flight of the Conchords. Lily finally becomes a part of Jarrod’s world after proving her skill at a Mortal-Kombat-style video game called Fight Man played at his animal theme party. After the two hook up at the party, Jarrod reveals that he is secretly training to fight a bully who used to pick on him years ago in school. The two travel to Jarrod’s home town for the battle when friction caused by Jarrod’s family … Read entire article »
D-listers unite for ‘The Celebrity Apprentice’ on NBC
Tweet The Celebrity Apprentice made its debut last night on NBC. In the first episode, Donald Trump introduced the cast of famous faces playing for various charities. Among them were Gene Simmons from KISS, boxing champ Lennox Lewis, Taxi‘s Marilu Henner, Vincent Pastore from The Sopranos, Olympic gold medalists and Nadia Comanici and Jennie Finch, former supermodel Carol Alt, country singer Trace Adkins, Ultimate Fighting champion (and Jenna Jameson paramour) Tito Ortiz, former Telemundo exec Nely Galan, Stephen Baldwin, and lesser-known “stars” like Playboy Playmate Tiffany Fallon, and America’s Got Talent judge Piers Morgan AKA the poor man’s Simon Cowell. The biggest shock of the season thus far was the return ego-maniac and perpetual d-lister Omarosa from the first season of The Apprentice. I must admit that, when I saw Omarosa would … Read entire article »
Filed under: Celebrities, Television
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