UsMagazine has some exciting news for those of us who grew up cracking our sides at the National Lampoon’s Vacation franchise. Series stars Chevy Chase and Beverly D’Angelo will reprise their roles as Clark and Ellen Griswold for a TV ad premiering at next year’s Super Bowl.
The duo, who played the disaster-prone pair in four Vacation hits in the ’80s & ’90s, will star as The Griswolds again in a new commercial for HomeAway vacation rentals. Read the rest of this entry »
Tracy Morgan’s stand-up gig at New York’s Carnegie Hall on Friday night left some audience members disgusted and running for the nearest exit. Jokes about Obama sex, defecation, and homosexuality caused several audience members to walk out of the Emmy-nominated star’s controversial performance, an insider dished to The NY Daily News on Tuesday.
“I’m an aspiring standup and I went to the show cause I love Tracy on ‘SNL,’ ‘30 Rock,’ etc. To call it a disappointment would be THE understatement of the century…This was his joke, I kid you not, ‘I bought my wife a glass coffee table so she could shit on it and I could watch from beneath it.’ Um, is that funny? No. It was bad and kinda sad,” one of the walkouts blabbed. Read the rest of this entry »
Shakira isn’t seeing red after being poked fun at by country-pop rocker Taylor Swift on last weekend’s Saturday Night Live.
The Colombian with the most famous hips in music celebrated the release of her new album, She Wolf, at a Rolling Stone party in New York Monday and couldn’t stop laughing after Access Hollywood played her the clip of Taylor impersonating the Latin pop tart’s signature moves for SNL’s “Bunny Business” skit.
“That’s crazy,” Shakira said. “I feel flattered. I love Taylor,” the “Hips Don’t Lie” singer added. “I think she’s awesome. She’s beautiful and a great talent and that is just really, really funny.”
Is self-professed pimp Katt Williams beginning to remind anyone else of an old-school crack addict?
The pint-sized comic — who was arrested on burglary charges after looting a friend’s suburban Atlanta home of $3,500 in cash and rare coins early Monday — was the subject of a 911 call just last month, when Williams, 38, was accused of holding a 17-year-old boy hostage in the same Georgia residence.
Chelsea Handler has never been one to mince words, and she isn’t starting now. It appears the razor-tongued comedienne has no sympathy for celebrities she routinely mocks on her late night E! series, Chelsea Lately.
“I think the people I talk about are generally so stupid [that] they don’t even know I’m saying bad things about them,”Chelsea told Philadelphia Style Magazine this week. “I’ve run into Paris Hilton and she’s like, ‘Oh, I love your show.’ And I’m like, ‘You can’t love my show if you can hear,’” she added.
Taylor Swift is the host and musical guest on this weekend’s Saturday Night Live — and she hasn’t forgotten the infamous mic-snitching that left her publicly humiliated at the MTV Video Music Awards last summer.
In a promo that began airing Tuesday, the global music sensation and SNL cast member Bill Hader poke fun at the notorious incident and controversial rap star Kanye West. Taylor announces she will be on the sketch show this weekend while Hader stands by her side on the phone. He gets off his cell and says, “Whoops, Kanye West just called. He thinks Beyoncé should host instead.”
As part of The TODAY Show’s “TODAY Gets A Laugh” series, host Ann Curry (”Good Mornin’, Good Mornin’”) took place in a spontaneous musical with New York-based pranksters, Improv Everywhere.
Emmy-winning comedienne Kathy Griffin has been tapped to host on new celebrity dance competition on ABC.
Griffin, 48, has signed on to helm Let’s Dance, a new series which while premiere immediately after the Nov. 23 finale of Dancing With The Stars, TheWrap.com has learned. The new series will feature celebrity contestants reenacting their famous routines from past music videos, movies, and musicals on a live weekly dance-off that will run for just five episodes. “The competition will be hot — and hilarious — as teams of celebrities pay comedic homage to famous dances while competing for a $250,000 grand prize for their favorite charity,” according to a statement from ABC Tuesday. “The show will include single dancers, duos and groups, all competing against each other to wow a panel of judges and viewers across America who will be voting each week leading up to the series finale.”
The panel of judges and celebrity participants will be announced sometime in the next few weeks.
Soupy Sales, the comedian who took more 20,000 pies to the face in front more than 5,000 live TV appearances for half a century, died in the Bronx on Thursday. He was 83.
Soupy — beloved by the Baby Boom Generation — died at Calvary Hospice in the Bronx, New York overnight, his former manager and longtime friend, Dave Usher, confirmed. The comedy legend many health problems and entered the hospice last week.
At the peak of his fame in the 1950s and ‘60s, Sales was one of the best-known faces in the nation.
“If President Eisenhower would have walked down the street, no one would have recognized him as much as Soupy,” Usher said.
