Tag: comedian
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Despicable Me fun in 3D
In the tradition of Shrek, Universal’s Despicable Me is a film for kids, that’s also fun for adults. The Pixar-like 3D animation wows children and the cast list alone is enough to get adults excited. When I saw the first trailer for the film, seeing Steve Carell, Jason Segel, Russell Brand, Julie Andrews, Will Arnett, and Kristen…
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Forget ‘Sarah Marshall’! Russell Brand rocks it in ‘Get Him to the Greek’
Get Him to the Greek isn’t exactly a sequel to Forgetting Sarah Marshall, but it brings back that film’s most memorable character, Aldous Snow, played brilliantly by Russell Brand.
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Bradley Cooper on ‘The Hangover’ and evolving comedy
Bradley Cooper has fittingly described his new film The Hangover as “Bachelor Party meets Memento” because the comedy takes the familiar storyline of inebriated pre-matrimony adventures and flips it around with the complexity of Christopher Nolan’s acclaimed mystery. Instead of showing the drunken debauchery, the story focuses on the three main characters waking up to…
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Wil interviews Team Tiger Awesome
Team Tiger Awesome is generating a following that can be closely compared to many other greats of the internet like The Lonely Island, The Whitest Kids U Know, and Dax Flame. I recently got the chance to sit down with one of the members of the 13th most popular sketch comedy group, Team Tiger Awesome,…
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Playing “Rock Paper Scissors” with Ian Bagg
Ian Bagg, a Vancouver native, has had a prestigious career. He has risen through the ranks and earned the coveted Comedy Central Presents half-hour special. Bagg recently sat down with Wil to talk about blast engineering, Canada, and Carlos Mencia.
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One Night Standup with Nick Swardson
Nick Swardson has been doing standup since the age of 19. Since then Swardson has had two half-hour specials on Comedy Central, been a spokesperson for a soft drink, written/co-written three major motion picture scripts, and is currently on a “big standup tour” throughout all improv comedy clubs.
