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5 Seasonal Classics to Help Stephen Colbert Craft a Hit Holiday Special
6:55AM STV | Stephen Colbert brought a preview of his upcoming Comedy Central holiday special to Good Morning America today, revealing a glimpse at a stirring interfaith celebration uniting Catholics, Jews, unsightly turtleneck devotees and a raft of other persuasions. But the brief sample of Colbert prying Hanukkah secrets from Jon Stewart isn’t quite enough to make anyone forget how far a holiday show really needs to go to achieve immortality. From the head-exploding ambition of the Star Wars Christmas Special to the suave, sweatered croonings of Solid Gold, there’s a golden era of genre excellence that even a talent like Colbert will find himself stretching awfully far to approximate. Follow the jump for five seasonal landmarks worth the effort, and godspeed outdoing any one of them. More »
Get Ready For ‘Leah Remini: The Show’
5:40AM Seth | · Leah Remini is in talks to join the daytime TV circuit with a new series “not necessarily thinking along the lines of a traditional talk show.” Details are tight, but rumours of a home-shopping/variety hour—in which you can call in your orders for Pea-Org Vitamin-Enriched Pureed Baby Delight™ while delighting to the musical comedy stylings of Martin Short—sound promising. [THR] · The Slate’s Michael Ian Black and Michael Showalter will star in Comedy Central’s Michael and Michael Have Issues, a comedy sketch show. [THR] · Savor that LAT hard-edition. Tribune reports a…*spittake*…$4.5 billion dollar loss. [Variety] · E! has hired former New Line TV exec Beth Greenwald as their VP of original programming and series development, where she’ll oversee a whole new slate of reality shows about the lives of fame-hungry hydras, including the exciting Living Jackie Stallone. [Variety] · Sid Ganis has been re-elected president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, ensuring you a lengthy and satisfying pee-break at this year’s Oscars. [Variety] More »
Intimate Bob Saget/Olsen Twins Relationship Explained by Gilbert Gottfried
2:55AM STV | The recent taping of Bob Saget’s Comedy Central Roast was bound to take a wrong turn sooner or later — sooner, in fact, if the comic’s filthy inner circle evinced in The Aristocrats and other blue rooms over the years had anything to do with it. In fact, we’d bet dollars to donuts that the Gilbert Gottfried riff below was merely a mild, early pacesetter for an even more sordid night to come, which should roughly result in a seven-minute broadcast on Aug. 17 after the censors get a hold of it. We’re told this clip is among those slashed, but really, aren’t the Olsen Twin molestation gags we’ve been hearing about almost too easy under the circumstances? Would Candace Cameron jokes just be too on the nose? You tell us after the jump, and come on, Gil — don’t get soft on us now. More »
Defamer Matchmaking: Who Will Sarah Silverman And Jimmy Kimmel Be F*cking Next?
8:20AM Molly Friedman | Whenever a long-standing couple like Sarah Silverman and Jimmy Kimmel hit the skids, we feel the need to play Emma and set the lovelorn kids up with someone new ASAP. And since we were the ones who debunked the news that Jimmy had already rebounded with one of his writers, we feel like we should continue our tradition of suggesting a few paramours for the pair of funny people. See our suggestions after the jump.
Katt Williams Gets His ‘Motherfucking Feelings’ Hurt Over Comedy Central’s ‘Crispity Crackity Coon Hour’
3:00AM Defamer Hollywood | It didn’t take a tendency toward political correctness or what roastmaster Katt Williams called his “n****r Spidey sense” to perceive the more over-the-top racism in last year’s Comedy Central Roast of Flavor Flav. From the blacks-only mandatory dress rehearsal to the “flying monkey” gags to the $11 worth of damage wreaked during Williams’s reputed plastic-plate-and-utensil tantrum, we’re pointed today to an epic tale of outrage and, ultimately, handsome compensation for the evening that set American race relations back roughly five days. We’ve come back since then, however, thanks to the equal time of this recent Williams tirade live from Las Vegas. Still, the network brass got off pretty easy; Jesse Jackson clearly would have cut their nuts off. More »
‘South Park’ Enacts The Worst Britney Case Scenario
2:34AM Seth | After a touching season premiere in which Cartman learns he’s been accidentally infected with HIV, South Park decided to lighten things up in the second episode of their 12th season by having Britney Spears put a shotgun in her mouth and blow off 70% of her head. (Don’t worry–she lives!) More »
Tina Fey Shoots Higher Than Choir-Preacher Jon Stewart
8:50AM Seth | Tina Fey, arguably the most powerful vagina-having joke force in the universe, has rarely minced words in the past when it comes to some of her lesser-abled collaborators, whether describing Paula Abdul as a “disaster” or Paris Hilton as “a disease-ridden fucktard” [Ed.note: Could we have an intern verify that?] But we never expected the 30 Rock star and showrunner to run off so freely at the mouth about her comedy giant equals, such as in the case of her surprisingly harsh assessment of Jon Stewart’s more politically solicitous material: COMEDY queen Tina Fey says that while she makes people laugh, political pundit Jon Stewart only makes them uncomfortable. More »
Trade Roundup: David Spade Has Torn Hollywood Its Last New One
5:30AM Defamer Hollywood | Comedy Central decides not to renew The Showbiz Show for a fourth season, officially freeing David Spade from the conflict-inviting hosting duties that sometimes put him in the uncomfortable position of having to use puppets to explain how Heather Locklear’s marriage was already over by the time he was banging her. [Variety] Ehren Kruger joins Alex Kurtzman and Robert Orci in writing the screenplay that director Michael Bay will use as a rough guide for where to place his giant fucking robots on Transformers 2. [THR] DreamWorks is wisely trying to keep their Norbit dream team of Eddie Murphy and critic-proof producer Brain Robbins intact, entering final negotiations to reunite them for the comedy A Thousand Words, the story of a guy who “only has 1,000 words left to speak before he dies.” [Variety] More »
