Funnyman Adam Sandler is preparing to step into drag for a gender-bending new comedy scheduled for release in 2011.
The actor has signed up to play the male and female tittle character in Jack and Jill, a romantic comedy about twins, Variety reported Thursday.
The movie is set to begin filming early next year.
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.
So long, Soupy….
Comedian Sarah Silverman has an idea to end world hunger — just in time for the U.N. World Food Day this Friday.
The Jesus Is Magic star is suggesting selling off the Vatican’s assets as a remedy for the food shortage in some of the most impoverished corners of the world! In a profanity-laced YouTube video, the always raunchy Silverman suggests that the Pope — who she refers to as a “caped crusader” “move out of your house that is a city” and use the wealth to feed the world so that she’ll stop seeing the world’s hungriest and most “emaciated people” on her TV screen.
The Catholic League, America’s leading Catholic civil rights organization, blasted Silverman’s video as an “obscene” and “filthy diatribe,” adding that the “Catholic Church operates more hospitals and feeds more of the poor than any private institution in the world.”
Tracy Morgan is bringing his no-holds barred approach to comedy to the pages of a new autobiography. In his tell-all book I Am the New Black, in stores Oct. 20, the Emmy-nominated 30 Rock star fires off at former Saturday Night Live co-stars Chris Kattan and Cheri Oteri.
SNL’s “Dominican Lou” writes: “I had my finger on the pulse of urban comedy, but when I brought my act to SNL, those motherf***** just felt bad for me…..None of the cast I came up with saw this future for me. No, sir. All I have to say about that is, where’s Chris Kattan now? Where’s Cheri Oteri now? That bitch can’t even get arrested.”
October 13th, 2009 by Castina
Tagged as: Billy Ray Cyrus, Comedy, Jimmy Fallon, Miley Cyrus, Twitter
Gee, Billy Ray Cyrus sure looks a lot like Jimmy Fallon these days! The country crooner wants everyone to know that he “ain’t no Twitter quitter” like his daughter Miley.
The Hannah Montana star left the Tweeners in tears last week when she deleted her Twitter page in a bid to keep her private life more private. Shortly after, she rapped a video explanation to her fans, but you’ve just got to see Billy Ray’s rap response video that aired on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon last night.
It all goes down in another edition of JMZ — The Jay Leno Show’s parody of TMZ on TV! Desperate times for desperate measures for former boybander Lance Bass when he holds up a local liquor store at gunpoint!
After fourteen seasons, comedian Darrell Hammond has announced his retirement from Saturday Night Live.
Madonna and Lady Gaga faced off in a staged catfight on live TV.
The pair of pop divas performed a synchronised dance-off, dressed in matching black lingerie and knee-high boots, as part of a skit on Saturday Night Live this week — hosted by Ryan Reynolds — which was called to a halt when Madonna started pulling Gaga’s wig and throttling her, yelling, “What the hell is a disco stick?” – referring to the younger star’s hit single “Love Game.”
The feuding pair had to be separated by the host of the fictitious MTV show Deep House Dish!
September 30th, 2009 by Castina
Tagged as: Comedy, Jimmy Kimmel, Popular Culture, Sarah Silverman, Sex Tapes
Brain Bleach Alert! Word on the street is former couple Jimmy Kimmel and Sarah Silverman recorded a 15-minute sex romp while on vacation several years ago, but forgot the camera in the resort room — leaving Silverman, the star of The Sarah Silverman Program, and Kimmel, the face of ABC late night in quite a pickle. Scandal!
A sneaky worker at the resort found the video and is reportedly brokering a deal to release footage of the comedians getting their moan on…..I think i just threw up in my mouth a little.
Sarah Silverman & Jimmy Kimmel Sex Tape?
“According to an anonymous ZackTaylor.ca source, the former couple (Sarah is now dating Rob Huebel) recorded a 15-minute tape while on vacation a few years ago, but forgot the camera in the resort room – A worker at the resort is now shopping around the tape (as if anyone would really wanna watch that)!!”
Developing…
One of Saturday Night Live’s newest castmembers has wasted no time making her presence known on the long-running variety show.
On Saturday night’s 35th season premiere, hosted by Megan Fox, newcomer Jenny Slate joined Kristen Wiig for a skit where the pair played biker chicks with a fondness for the word “freakin.’”
Unfortunately, that isn’t the only “F-word” Jenny has a penchant for.
“I fucking love you for that,” Jenny said to Kristen in an f-bomb that went uncensored on the East Coast’s live broadcast.
