Showing posts with label saturday night live. Show all posts
Showing posts with label saturday night live. Show all posts

Monday, April 16, 2007

Slow News Day: Reno-ers Down Under, Ferrell or Die, Chasing Chevy, Wet Hot Karaoke

ITEM: In a new interview with Moviehole, Tom Lennon only-half-jokingly explains his vision for a Reno 911!: Miami sequel, which would send the team to Australia to pull a horny koala off Steven Seagal’s face, among other things. He also reveals that he and Ben Garant are now writing the Mike Myers vehicle How to Survive a Robot Uprising, and are in the early stages of development on a Night at the Museum sequel too, but who gives a shit?

ITEM: With a million views so far, you’ve probably already seen Adam McKay and Will Ferrell’s exclusive Internet short The Landlord, but just in case, here it is in all its youthful, foul-mouthed glory. So far, no word on where the hell this thing came from and how start-up video site Funny or Die managed to get a lock on it.

ITEM: Chevy Chase attempts to clear up every rumor he’s ever been attached to in a new Q&A with Time. Among the more interesting revelations: His long-term absence, peppered with phoned-in supporting roles, may be coming to a close now that his daughters have grown up, he only left SNL for a girl, and he claims the damaging gossip about his backstage gay-bashing is 100% fabricated, and that he has the testimony from Will Ferrell to prove it. A far less interesting revelation: he thinks Vegas Vacation was “just OK.”

ITEM: This weekend at a Michael Showalter-hosted magazine premiere party, Paul Rudd and David Wain belted out a no-holds-barred Boston karaoke classic to live accompaniment by champion weirdsters Of Montreal. Fortunately (or maybe not), someone captured it via shitty cell phone camera, and now here it be:

Friday, February 2, 2007

Make It a Bud.TV



Anheuser-Busch has launched a new web channel that will feature a parade of frat-boy-friendly exclusive webisodes. Right now, Bud.TV only has previews up for ridiculous chimp-themed reality shows and hoaky CGI sci-fi soaps, but it will be full-blast right after the Super Bowl this Sunday, with at least two potentially interesting premieres.

One is Finish Our Movie, a new concept from the creators of Project Greenlight, which allows viewers to submit the middle section to an incomplete short film written and directed by veterans of Saturday Night Live, Da Ali G Show, Everybody Hates Chris, The Man Show, and Mad TV.

The other is the insipidly titled Happy Hour, a sketch show from another SNL writer, which has already lined up guest spots from the likes of Chris Parnell and Tim Meadows.

The service will also feature the requisite "fake news" program, as well as various comedy clips, including footage from Vince Vaughn's recent Wild West Comedy Show tour.

Drink up.

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