It’s not exactly subtle. Appearing in even the first teaser of Top Gun: Maverick—released an astonishing three years ago!—Tom Cruise’s fighter pilot is getting an epic dressing down from the boss. His superior, Radam. Chester “the Hammer” Cain, is sick and tired of Maverick’s hot shot ways and insubordination. And he’s here to put the younger man in his place. It’s a scene we’ve witnessed many times, including to iconic effect in the original Top Gun from 1986, and yet the Hammer’s critique of his fiftysomething naval officer is sharper here. More pointed. He is getting at something existential about the trajectory of a man’s life.
“You can’t get a promotion,” Harris’ rear admiral sneers, “you won’t retire, and despite your best efforts, you refuse to die. You should be at least a two-star admiral by now… or a senator.
“You can’t get a promotion,” Harris’ rear admiral sneers, “you won’t retire, and despite your best efforts, you refuse to die. You should be at least a two-star admiral by now… or a senator.
- 5/28/2022
- by David Crow
- Den of Geek
Brandis Kemp, aka Sally Blankfield, died at her home in the Los Feliz section of Los Angeles on July 4 after a struggle with brain cancer and complications from Covid-19, a friend confirmed. She was 76 and spent five decades as a working actress and comedienne.
She is best known for her TV work in ABC’s late night variety show Fridays, where she appeared along with Larry David, Michael Richards, Rich Hall, Bruce Mahler, Melanie Chartoff and Kemp’s then-husband Mark Blankfield. She next starred as Alma Cox in AfterMASH with Harry Morgan, Jamie Farr, William Christopher and Rosalind Chao. As a member of the comedy group, Low Moan Spectacular, Brandis performed in El Grande de Coca Cola and Bullshot Crummond for HBO.
Brandis’s passion was Native American culture, gardening, and DIY. In November 2019, at age 75, after learning that her home needed to be re-stuccoed, Brandis taught herself to stucco,...
She is best known for her TV work in ABC’s late night variety show Fridays, where she appeared along with Larry David, Michael Richards, Rich Hall, Bruce Mahler, Melanie Chartoff and Kemp’s then-husband Mark Blankfield. She next starred as Alma Cox in AfterMASH with Harry Morgan, Jamie Farr, William Christopher and Rosalind Chao. As a member of the comedy group, Low Moan Spectacular, Brandis performed in El Grande de Coca Cola and Bullshot Crummond for HBO.
Brandis’s passion was Native American culture, gardening, and DIY. In November 2019, at age 75, after learning that her home needed to be re-stuccoed, Brandis taught herself to stucco,...
- 7/10/2020
- by Bruce Haring
- Deadline Film + TV
Brandis Kemp, an actress best known for her appearances on the television shows Fridays and AfterMASH, has died. She was 76.
Kemp died July 4 at her home in Los Feliz after a battle with brain cancer and complications from Covid-19, actress and acting coach Myra Turley told The Hollywood Reporter. She was surrounded by family and friends.
Kemp spent five decades as a working actress and comedian. She appeared on the ABC late-night variety show Fridays, starring alongside Larry David, Michael Richards, Rich Hall and more, and portrayed Alma Cox on the CBS spinoff AfterMASH alongside Jamie Farr, Harry ...
Kemp died July 4 at her home in Los Feliz after a battle with brain cancer and complications from Covid-19, actress and acting coach Myra Turley told The Hollywood Reporter. She was surrounded by family and friends.
Kemp spent five decades as a working actress and comedian. She appeared on the ABC late-night variety show Fridays, starring alongside Larry David, Michael Richards, Rich Hall and more, and portrayed Alma Cox on the CBS spinoff AfterMASH alongside Jamie Farr, Harry ...
- 7/10/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Simon Brew Dec 4, 2017
The summer of 1990 was supposed to be a showdown between Dick Tracy and Days Of Thunder. It was a bit of an odd rivalry...
It would be fair to say that the top five movies at the Us box office in 1990 didn’t follow the rule book. In fact, 1990 saw Hollywood’s blockbuster formula falter, to the point that conversations were rife about whether a sea change was coming. Dramtic changes in blockbuster mentality were certainly on the way, as it happened, but not for a decade or so. Yet the seed was planted in 1990 that sure-fire blockbuster hits weren’t always, well, sure-fire blockbuster hits.
See related Vic and Bob: an appreciation House Of Fools episode 1 review: The Conan Affair House Of Fools: BBC cancels Reeves and Mortimer's sitcom
Not that many people saw it coming, Off the back of 1989’s blockbuster business, Hollywood was bullish.
The summer of 1990 was supposed to be a showdown between Dick Tracy and Days Of Thunder. It was a bit of an odd rivalry...
It would be fair to say that the top five movies at the Us box office in 1990 didn’t follow the rule book. In fact, 1990 saw Hollywood’s blockbuster formula falter, to the point that conversations were rife about whether a sea change was coming. Dramtic changes in blockbuster mentality were certainly on the way, as it happened, but not for a decade or so. Yet the seed was planted in 1990 that sure-fire blockbuster hits weren’t always, well, sure-fire blockbuster hits.
See related Vic and Bob: an appreciation House Of Fools episode 1 review: The Conan Affair House Of Fools: BBC cancels Reeves and Mortimer's sitcom
Not that many people saw it coming, Off the back of 1989’s blockbuster business, Hollywood was bullish.
- 11/30/2017
- Den of Geek
The first stars have been announced for Channel 4's Comedy Gala Live 2015.
Jonathan Ross, Alan Carr and Jack Dee are among the comedians who will appear at the charity event, which returns to London's O2 arena for a sixth year on Friday, May 15.
Aisling Bea, Jason Byrne, Jon Richardson, Josh Widdicombe, Katherine Ryan, Kevin Bridges and Michael McIntyre have also been confirmed for this year's show.
Paul Chowdhry, Rich Hall, Rob Beckett, Romesh Ranganathan, Sara Pascoe, Sean Lock , Seann Walsh, Shappi Khorsandi and Warwick Davis complete the first line-up announcement, with more acts to be confirmed in the coming weeks.
The Comedy Gala will be recorded and aired as a two-hour special on Channel 4 later this year. This year's show is dedicated to the event's founder, talent agent Addison Cresswell, who passed away in December 2013.
The annual event is held to raise money for Great Ormond Street Hospital.
Tim Johnson,...
Jonathan Ross, Alan Carr and Jack Dee are among the comedians who will appear at the charity event, which returns to London's O2 arena for a sixth year on Friday, May 15.
Aisling Bea, Jason Byrne, Jon Richardson, Josh Widdicombe, Katherine Ryan, Kevin Bridges and Michael McIntyre have also been confirmed for this year's show.
Paul Chowdhry, Rich Hall, Rob Beckett, Romesh Ranganathan, Sara Pascoe, Sean Lock , Seann Walsh, Shappi Khorsandi and Warwick Davis complete the first line-up announcement, with more acts to be confirmed in the coming weeks.
The Comedy Gala will be recorded and aired as a two-hour special on Channel 4 later this year. This year's show is dedicated to the event's founder, talent agent Addison Cresswell, who passed away in December 2013.
The annual event is held to raise money for Great Ormond Street Hospital.
Tim Johnson,...
- 3/2/2015
- Digital Spy
Streaming video is a godsend if you want to catch up with recent seasons of TV series. But what's a TV fan to do who wants to stream older shows? Netflix has very little from before the millennium, and Amazon Prime has very little from before 1990.
That's not a knock; the big streaming services know their market. Still, it's worth remembering that Amazon's initial appeal as a bookseller was it's long-tail catalog, the notion that comprehensiveness was worthwhile because somebody somewhere would want that obscure or ancient title, that the markets for all those titles were collectively significant and worth catering to, and that the Internet had at last made it easier to connect those customers with what they wanted.
But until the big streaming services step into the long-tail breach, Shout Factory TV (at shoutfactorytv.com) is ready to make a home there. The boutique streaming service, which is free and requires no subscription,...
That's not a knock; the big streaming services know their market. Still, it's worth remembering that Amazon's initial appeal as a bookseller was it's long-tail catalog, the notion that comprehensiveness was worthwhile because somebody somewhere would want that obscure or ancient title, that the markets for all those titles were collectively significant and worth catering to, and that the Internet had at last made it easier to connect those customers with what they wanted.
But until the big streaming services step into the long-tail breach, Shout Factory TV (at shoutfactorytv.com) is ready to make a home there. The boutique streaming service, which is free and requires no subscription,...
- 2/20/2015
- by Gary Susman
- Moviefone
Rich Hall is set to return to BBC Four with a new documentary.
Titled Rich Hall's California Stars, the show will head out to the West Coast to continue his cultural critique of American people and places.
The 90-minute documentary is set to air in early July.
Hall takes the viewer on a journey "to the place built on a tectonic fault-line that still deigns to call itself the Land of Dreams".
He will also explore Californians' main concerns, from their looks and spirituality, to the government and cars.
The comedian has previously starred in and written five other critically-acclaimed documentaries for the channel focusing on Us popular culture and the Wild West - Rich Hall's Inventing The Indian, Rich Hall's Continental Drifters, Rich Hall's The Dirty South, How The West Was Lost and Rich Hall's You Can Go to Hell, I'm Going to Texas.
Titled Rich Hall's California Stars, the show will head out to the West Coast to continue his cultural critique of American people and places.
The 90-minute documentary is set to air in early July.
Hall takes the viewer on a journey "to the place built on a tectonic fault-line that still deigns to call itself the Land of Dreams".
He will also explore Californians' main concerns, from their looks and spirituality, to the government and cars.
The comedian has previously starred in and written five other critically-acclaimed documentaries for the channel focusing on Us popular culture and the Wild West - Rich Hall's Inventing The Indian, Rich Hall's Continental Drifters, Rich Hall's The Dirty South, How The West Was Lost and Rich Hall's You Can Go to Hell, I'm Going to Texas.
- 6/4/2014
- Digital Spy
Review Ryan Lambie 9 Mar 2014 - 09:28
Aaron Paul stars in the high-octane videogame adaptation, Need For Speed. Here's Ryan's review...
Once upon a time, videogame adaptation Need For Speed could have been a Tom Cruise movie, and not just because its title also happens to be a line from Top Gun. As stand-up comedian Rich Hall once pointed out - brilliantly - in one of his routines, all of Tom Cruise's 80s and 90s movies were broadly the same, and can be summed up thus: “He's a race car driver. A pretty good race car driver, too. Until he has a crisis of confidence and can't race cars anymore. Then he meets a good-looking woman who talks him into being a better race car driver."
Need For Speed’s petrol-head protagonist Tobey Marshall (Breaking Bad’s Aaron Paul) is a hero in the Tom Cruise mould: he’s a race car driver.
Aaron Paul stars in the high-octane videogame adaptation, Need For Speed. Here's Ryan's review...
Once upon a time, videogame adaptation Need For Speed could have been a Tom Cruise movie, and not just because its title also happens to be a line from Top Gun. As stand-up comedian Rich Hall once pointed out - brilliantly - in one of his routines, all of Tom Cruise's 80s and 90s movies were broadly the same, and can be summed up thus: “He's a race car driver. A pretty good race car driver, too. Until he has a crisis of confidence and can't race cars anymore. Then he meets a good-looking woman who talks him into being a better race car driver."
Need For Speed’s petrol-head protagonist Tobey Marshall (Breaking Bad’s Aaron Paul) is a hero in the Tom Cruise mould: he’s a race car driver.
- 3/9/2014
- by ryanlambie
- Den of Geek
BBC One's hugely popular Live at the Apollo returns for a new series next month, and Eddie Izzard and Jack Whitehall are among the comedians headlining the shows.
The BAFTA-nominated series features different hosts performing for 3,500 fans at the Hammersmith Apollo, alongside two special guests.
Izzard will top the bill in the first episode and will be joined by Josh Widdicombe and Trevor Noah.
Later in the series, Whitehall, Sean Lock, Last Leg presenter Adam Hills and Nina Conti will all perform.
The lineup in full for the new series of Live at the Apollo:
Episode 1 - Host Eddie Izzard with special guests Josh Widdicombe and Trevor Noah
Episode 2 - Host Jack Dee with special guests Seann Walsh and Milton Jones
Episode 3 - Host Sean Lock with special guests Romesh Ranaganathan and Marcus Brigstocke
Episode 4 - Host Adam Hills with special guests Andi Osho and Terry Alderton
Episode 5 -...
The BAFTA-nominated series features different hosts performing for 3,500 fans at the Hammersmith Apollo, alongside two special guests.
Izzard will top the bill in the first episode and will be joined by Josh Widdicombe and Trevor Noah.
Later in the series, Whitehall, Sean Lock, Last Leg presenter Adam Hills and Nina Conti will all perform.
The lineup in full for the new series of Live at the Apollo:
Episode 1 - Host Eddie Izzard with special guests Josh Widdicombe and Trevor Noah
Episode 2 - Host Jack Dee with special guests Seann Walsh and Milton Jones
Episode 3 - Host Sean Lock with special guests Romesh Ranaganathan and Marcus Brigstocke
Episode 4 - Host Adam Hills with special guests Andi Osho and Terry Alderton
Episode 5 -...
- 10/24/2013
- Digital Spy
Rating: 3.5/5.0
Chicago – Greg Camalier’s “Muscle Shoals” is a robust, entertaining piece of work that captures the power of a place that has produced some of the most remarkable music in the history of the recorded form. It’s a testament to power of the “Muscle Shoals sound” that so many music legends sat down for Camalier to discuss it but the director wisely doesn’t turn this into cavalcade of stars, keeping the focus as much on the man who built this hotbed of creativity and the musicians who played behind the household names.
The tiny little Alabama town of Muscle Shoals seemed an unlikely place to birth so much amazing music from finding the soul of Aretha Franklin to some of The Rolling Stones best recordings to really the whole sound of Lynyrd Skynyrd. There are only 8,000 residents in this tiny burgh but millions have been impacted by...
Chicago – Greg Camalier’s “Muscle Shoals” is a robust, entertaining piece of work that captures the power of a place that has produced some of the most remarkable music in the history of the recorded form. It’s a testament to power of the “Muscle Shoals sound” that so many music legends sat down for Camalier to discuss it but the director wisely doesn’t turn this into cavalcade of stars, keeping the focus as much on the man who built this hotbed of creativity and the musicians who played behind the household names.
The tiny little Alabama town of Muscle Shoals seemed an unlikely place to birth so much amazing music from finding the soul of Aretha Franklin to some of The Rolling Stones best recordings to really the whole sound of Lynyrd Skynyrd. There are only 8,000 residents in this tiny burgh but millions have been impacted by...
- 10/3/2013
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Sam Bain lifts the lid on 'painful' decision to turn down HBO series, Three Men in a Boat stars enter choppy waters – and Britain's smelliest-looking celebrity
This week's comedy news
Laughing Stock this week brings you news, not of something that's happened in the world of comedy, but something that didn't. According to an interview with Peep Show creator Sam Bain on the Stateside podcast A Bit of a Chat, Bain and his writing partner Jesse Armstrong "were about a week away from flying to La to co-create Flight of the Conchords, and then Peep Show got recommissioned and we couldn't go".
Bain and Armstrong had agreed to make the HBO series with Conchords stars Bret McKenzie and Jemaine Clement – "[although] we didn't know it was gonna be as good as it was," Bain told interviewer Ken Plume. (It turned out – with the Conchords' eventual co-writer James Bobin – to be very good indeed.
This week's comedy news
Laughing Stock this week brings you news, not of something that's happened in the world of comedy, but something that didn't. According to an interview with Peep Show creator Sam Bain on the Stateside podcast A Bit of a Chat, Bain and his writing partner Jesse Armstrong "were about a week away from flying to La to co-create Flight of the Conchords, and then Peep Show got recommissioned and we couldn't go".
Bain and Armstrong had agreed to make the HBO series with Conchords stars Bret McKenzie and Jemaine Clement – "[although] we didn't know it was gonna be as good as it was," Bain told interviewer Ken Plume. (It turned out – with the Conchords' eventual co-writer James Bobin – to be very good indeed.
- 5/22/2013
- by Brian Logan
- The Guardian - Film News
Miranda Hart, Diversity, Warwick Davis and Nina Conti have been added to the Channel 4 Comedy Gala lineup.
The foursome join a bill which already includes Lee Evans, Michael McIntyre, Alan Carr and Rhod Gilbert.
Jack Dee, Adam Hills, Jason Byrne, Jo Brand, Jonathan Ross, Noel Fielding, Rich Hall and Paddy McGuinness are also performing at the event.
Hosted at London's O2 on May 18, the show will air in a two-hour Channel 4 special later in the year.
The event is a fundraiser for the Great Ormond Street Hospital.
Tickets are currently on sale priced £40-£100.
Watch Nina Conti performing stand-up below:...
The foursome join a bill which already includes Lee Evans, Michael McIntyre, Alan Carr and Rhod Gilbert.
Jack Dee, Adam Hills, Jason Byrne, Jo Brand, Jonathan Ross, Noel Fielding, Rich Hall and Paddy McGuinness are also performing at the event.
Hosted at London's O2 on May 18, the show will air in a two-hour Channel 4 special later in the year.
The event is a fundraiser for the Great Ormond Street Hospital.
Tickets are currently on sale priced £40-£100.
Watch Nina Conti performing stand-up below:...
- 4/26/2013
- Digital Spy
Big names will take part in venture with Comedy Central, BBC sketch had over 2,000 complaints, plus Ian McKellen's sitcom
This week's comedy news
Can't get to Edinburgh? Kilkenny just that bit too far away? Never fear. The cable channel Comedy Central is teaming up with Twitter to launch the first 140-character comedy festival. The festival will commence on 29 April and run for five days, featuring a host of comedy names tweeting jokes and posting six second videos using Twitter's new video app Vine. Next Monday, Twitter will stream the only live #ComedyFest event, a panel discussion featuring Mel Brooks and Judd Apatow. The New York Times has more on the story, including the lowdown on a new app Comedy Central is developing to help users discover their favourite new comedians.
Back in the world of real festivals, veteran Anglo-American standup Rich Hall has won the Barry award at the Melbourne comedy festival,...
This week's comedy news
Can't get to Edinburgh? Kilkenny just that bit too far away? Never fear. The cable channel Comedy Central is teaming up with Twitter to launch the first 140-character comedy festival. The festival will commence on 29 April and run for five days, featuring a host of comedy names tweeting jokes and posting six second videos using Twitter's new video app Vine. Next Monday, Twitter will stream the only live #ComedyFest event, a panel discussion featuring Mel Brooks and Judd Apatow. The New York Times has more on the story, including the lowdown on a new app Comedy Central is developing to help users discover their favourite new comedians.
Back in the world of real festivals, veteran Anglo-American standup Rich Hall has won the Barry award at the Melbourne comedy festival,...
- 4/23/2013
- by Brian Logan
- The Guardian - Film News
Revisiting 18 years of pop culture, from Britpop to the Spice Girls, via Father Ted
1994: Mad fer it!
Issue No 1 Previously a broadsheet section in the newspaper, The Guide was expanded into a magazine proper on 27 August 1994. Nobody bothered to archive a copy, though, so the best we can do is show you a Xeroxed reproduction of the cover. At the time we were concerned with the weird state of science shows on TV and had a wander around the Notting Hill Carnival.
Spotted! All Saints From a review of their single Silver Shadow: "Born in the same year and in the same area of London, what else could these girls do but form a swingbeat group? Their debut is a sickly Atlantic Starr cover with an idiotic number of mixes, encompassing every dance style bar Morris. Eternal may rest easy in their Timberlands." Note: swingbeat was a form of...
1994: Mad fer it!
Issue No 1 Previously a broadsheet section in the newspaper, The Guide was expanded into a magazine proper on 27 August 1994. Nobody bothered to archive a copy, though, so the best we can do is show you a Xeroxed reproduction of the cover. At the time we were concerned with the weird state of science shows on TV and had a wander around the Notting Hill Carnival.
Spotted! All Saints From a review of their single Silver Shadow: "Born in the same year and in the same area of London, what else could these girls do but form a swingbeat group? Their debut is a sickly Atlantic Starr cover with an idiotic number of mixes, encompassing every dance style bar Morris. Eternal may rest easy in their Timberlands." Note: swingbeat was a form of...
- 1/5/2013
- by The Guide
- The Guardian - Film News
Since "Saturday Night Live" began airing, only one show made a serious run at unseating its cultural significance as the go-to sketch comedy series: ABC's "Fridays."
Starting in 1980 -- a year that would see Lorne Michaels leave "SNL," hurtling the show toward the brink of cancellation -- "Fridays" ran for two seasons, and would help launch the careers of Michael Richards and Rich Hall. (In the film "Man on the Moon," Jim Carrey, playing Andy Kaufman, reenacts one of the most notorious moments from "Fridays.") But, more important, "Fridays" began the collaboration between Larry David and Larry Charles -- two men who would go on to work on two television shows that you may have heard of: "Seinfeld" and "Curb Your Enthusiasm."
These days, Charles is the director of Sacha Baron Cohen's movies: "Borat," "Bruno," and, now, "The Dictator" -- the first scripted collaboration between Cohen and his director.
Starting in 1980 -- a year that would see Lorne Michaels leave "SNL," hurtling the show toward the brink of cancellation -- "Fridays" ran for two seasons, and would help launch the careers of Michael Richards and Rich Hall. (In the film "Man on the Moon," Jim Carrey, playing Andy Kaufman, reenacts one of the most notorious moments from "Fridays.") But, more important, "Fridays" began the collaboration between Larry David and Larry Charles -- two men who would go on to work on two television shows that you may have heard of: "Seinfeld" and "Curb Your Enthusiasm."
These days, Charles is the director of Sacha Baron Cohen's movies: "Borat," "Bruno," and, now, "The Dictator" -- the first scripted collaboration between Cohen and his director.
- 5/16/2012
- by The Huffington Post
- Huffington Post
Jon Richardson has replaced Kevin Bridges as host of Stand Up for the Week. Channel 4's late-night satirical show will return for a third series of six episodes in November. Seann Walsh, Sara Pascoe, Josh Widdicombe and Paul Chowdrhy will join regular Rich Hall and 8 out of 10 Cats star Richardson on the stand-up team. "Stand Up for the Week continues to be a showcase for some of the country's best comedians and we're thrilled that Jon Richardson will step up to host the new series," announced the broadcaster's commissioning editor Madeleine Knight in a statement. Executive producer Andrew Beint of Open Mike (more)...
- 10/4/2011
- by By Paul Millar
- Digital Spy
A bike fest on the Belfast Waterfront, the Turner Prize exhibition at the Baltic, a film festival on Jersey and hip-hop at Sadler's Wells – here's our pick of cultural events in the coming months
August
Comedy
Camden Fringe London
With an eye for the experimental and the strange, this festival spreads out over venues across the borough, with theatre, stand-up, improv and shadow puppets from the likes of comediennes Morris & Vyse and puppet company Pangolin's Teatime.
1-28 August, camdenfringe.com, tickets from £5
Theatre and dance
Five Truths at the V&A, London
Multi-screen installation brings together five interpretations of Ophelia's madness in Hamlet. Five Truths explores the differences in approach of five of the most influential European theatre directors, including Bertold Brecht and Peter Brook, and how they might have imagined the scene, in a film created by National Theatre associate director Katie Mitchell.
• Until 29 August, vam.ac.uk, admission free
Peter Hall Company,...
August
Comedy
Camden Fringe London
With an eye for the experimental and the strange, this festival spreads out over venues across the borough, with theatre, stand-up, improv and shadow puppets from the likes of comediennes Morris & Vyse and puppet company Pangolin's Teatime.
1-28 August, camdenfringe.com, tickets from £5
Theatre and dance
Five Truths at the V&A, London
Multi-screen installation brings together five interpretations of Ophelia's madness in Hamlet. Five Truths explores the differences in approach of five of the most influential European theatre directors, including Bertold Brecht and Peter Brook, and how they might have imagined the scene, in a film created by National Theatre associate director Katie Mitchell.
• Until 29 August, vam.ac.uk, admission free
Peter Hall Company,...
- 8/5/2011
- by Dale Berning
- The Guardian - Film News
Jimmy Carr and Rich Hall have both been named 'Legends' at this year's Loaded Laftas, in association with Yazoo. Carr was branded the 'Loaded Legend' at the ceremony held at The Cuckoo Club in London and Hall was named the 'Stand-Up Legend'. Andy Sherwood, editor of Loaded, said: "This year's awards just highlight the fantastic calibre of comedic talent we have in the UK across live stand-up, television, radio and film and we're delighted to be celebrating such stellar talent at this year's Loaded Laftas!" The full breakdown of other winners - voted for by the public (more)...
- 2/1/2011
- by By Mayer Nissim
- Digital Spy
Kevin Bridges has signed up to host the new series of Stand Up For The Week. The Channel 4 show, which was originally hosted by Patrick Kielty, will return with new episodes in March. The programme features comedians Jack Whitehall, Rich Hall, Andi Osho and Jon Richardson giving viewers their take on the stories of the week. The regular contributors will be joined each week by a guest stand-up from the comedy scene, who will perform an exclusive set. Bridges said: "I'm chuffed (more)...
- 1/25/2011
- by By Catriona Wightman
- Digital Spy
Barbara Windsor has signed up to appear in Comedy Roast. The Channel 4 show will see a host of celebrities pay tribute to the former EastEnders star with praise and comedic insults. The lineup includes comedians such as Alan Carr, Sean Lock, Rich Hall and Paddy Kielty, while actors including Bernard Cribbins, Cheryl Fergison and Christopher Biggins will also take part. Windsor will (more)...
- 12/2/2010
- by By Catriona Wightman
- Digital Spy
Davina McCall has signed up to appear on Comedy Roast next month. The Channel 4 programme will see the Big Brother host face praise and comedic insults from a wide range of celebrity guests. Comedians who have signed up for the show include Rich Hall, Debra Stephenson, Patrick Kielty, Ed Byrne and Jack Whitehall. Meanwhile, Chris Moyles, Dermot O'Leary, Julian Clary and Fearne Cotton will appear at the event alongside former Big Brother (more)...
- 9/30/2010
- by By Catriona Wightman
- Digital Spy
The It Crowd series 4 ends, Sherlock returns, Doctor Who repeats and The Deep, too. Plus movies. Lots and lots of movies...
If you missed Matt Smith's introduction in Doctor Who, or any of the 13 episode run, the fifth series of New Who is being shown again starting tonight, at 7:00pm on BBC3 with The Eleventh Hour, followed by the Confidential shows you may have skipped the first time around. Strangely, this trip seems to manage identical broadcast times at least two weeks in a row, so you should be able to catch it from the first frames every Friday.
The It Crowd finale of its fourth season airs tonight at 10:00pm on Channel 4 with Reynholm v Reynholm. This latest series was a sweet and sour assortment for our reviewers and this final show may be the deciding factor for its future. It involves another court case,...
If you missed Matt Smith's introduction in Doctor Who, or any of the 13 episode run, the fifth series of New Who is being shown again starting tonight, at 7:00pm on BBC3 with The Eleventh Hour, followed by the Confidential shows you may have skipped the first time around. Strangely, this trip seems to manage identical broadcast times at least two weeks in a row, so you should be able to catch it from the first frames every Friday.
The It Crowd finale of its fourth season airs tonight at 10:00pm on Channel 4 with Reynholm v Reynholm. This latest series was a sweet and sour assortment for our reviewers and this final show may be the deciding factor for its future. It involves another court case,...
- 7/29/2010
- Den of Geek
To Kill A Mockingbird At 50 might just be the TV choice of the week, as we round up the next week's telly. Plus, as usual, there's a lot of films to get through...!
A new comedy show launched last Friday, and its second show airs tonight, July 2nd at 11:05pm on Channel 4. I'm far from Patrick Kielty's biggest fan, but any outlet for comedians of the calibre of the planned guests is a welcome one. Politics, news, and sporting losses are always easier to take when dished out by funny people and Rich Hall, Jack Whitehall, Andi Osho and Kevin Bridges do just that in an appropriate bar setting in Stand Up For The Week.
Family Guy continues its Star Wars specials on Sunday, July 4th, with Something, Something, Something, Dark Side. We think it's as good a pairing as Robot Chicken, Legos, or thumbs can manage.
A new comedy show launched last Friday, and its second show airs tonight, July 2nd at 11:05pm on Channel 4. I'm far from Patrick Kielty's biggest fan, but any outlet for comedians of the calibre of the planned guests is a welcome one. Politics, news, and sporting losses are always easier to take when dished out by funny people and Rich Hall, Jack Whitehall, Andi Osho and Kevin Bridges do just that in an appropriate bar setting in Stand Up For The Week.
Family Guy continues its Star Wars specials on Sunday, July 4th, with Something, Something, Something, Dark Side. We think it's as good a pairing as Robot Chicken, Legos, or thumbs can manage.
- 7/2/2010
- Den of Geek
Patrick Kielty has been confirmed as the host of a new Friday night Channel 4 stand-up show. Kielty will be joined on Stand Up For The Week by famous names such as Rich Hall, Jack Whitehall, Andi Osho and Kevin Bridges. Filmed at Koko in Camden, the programme will look at the week's political, sporting and showbiz events. Celebrities (more)...
- 6/14/2010
- by By Alex Fletcher
- Digital Spy
Milwaukee - Henry Winkler is not the Fonz.
He played the coolest guy on Happy Days for eleven seasons. But he doesn’t wear a leather jacket, ride a motorcycle or fix things by bumping them with his elbow. He’s not even Italian. He’s got a life that has gone beyond the Fonz. There’s probably a generation that knows him better for Adam Sandler movies and Arrested Development. On a May evening at the Quail Ridge bookstore in Raleigh, there is a group of kids under 12 years old that know him as the author of the Hank Zipzer books (along with co-writer Lin Oliver).
Many stars of the ’70s sell their tawdry memoirs of behind the scenes perversions. Winkler created a young adult book series that taps into grade school life instead of the action in Arnold’s bathroom. We’ll have to wait for lurid tales of the Hooper triplets.
He played the coolest guy on Happy Days for eleven seasons. But he doesn’t wear a leather jacket, ride a motorcycle or fix things by bumping them with his elbow. He’s not even Italian. He’s got a life that has gone beyond the Fonz. There’s probably a generation that knows him better for Adam Sandler movies and Arrested Development. On a May evening at the Quail Ridge bookstore in Raleigh, there is a group of kids under 12 years old that know him as the author of the Hank Zipzer books (along with co-writer Lin Oliver).
Many stars of the ’70s sell their tawdry memoirs of behind the scenes perversions. Winkler created a young adult book series that taps into grade school life instead of the action in Arnold’s bathroom. We’ll have to wait for lurid tales of the Hooper triplets.
- 5/28/2010
- by UncaScroogeMcD
While some people are of the belief that the commercials are the best thing about TV, most of us use the ad break as a chance to do something else--murder our mothers-in-law, stitch profanities into our boyfriends' underwear, or search for the Higgs boson down the back of the sofa. On Monday night, however, a British broadcaster is doing something a little bit different that might call a halt to the average power surge caused by viewers flocking to boil the kettle as they are bombarded with information about drain cleaners and hemorrhoid cream.
During one of the commercial breaks of the Channel 4's Comedy Gala, a two-hour-long stand-up fest which includes Bill Bailey, Rich Hall, and Rob Brydon--all of whom you can see here with Apple fanboy Stephen Fry--every single spot will be hijacked by Jimmy Carr. The brands of Guinness, Specsavers, Churchill Insurance, GoCompare, and...
During one of the commercial breaks of the Channel 4's Comedy Gala, a two-hour-long stand-up fest which includes Bill Bailey, Rich Hall, and Rob Brydon--all of whom you can see here with Apple fanboy Stephen Fry--every single spot will be hijacked by Jimmy Carr. The brands of Guinness, Specsavers, Churchill Insurance, GoCompare, and...
- 4/1/2010
- by Addy Dugdale
- Fast Company
Channel 4 has announced that it will televise a comedy gala in aid of charity. The Mirror reports that Channel 4's Comedy Gala will be held in front of 14,000 fans at The O2 arena in London. The concert will feature 20 comedians, including David Mitchell, Jonathan Ross, Rob Brydon, Jack Dee, Alan Carr, Bill Bailey and Michael McIntyre. Rich Hall, Jo Brand, Lee Evans, Mark Watson and Omid Djalili have also signed up to (more)...
- 2/11/2010
- by By Catriona Wightman
- Digital Spy
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