danny mcbride
Flotsam & Jetsam
Family Guy Would Like An Emmy For Best Gratuitous Non Sequiturs
2:16AM Richard Lawson | An annoying TV show would like some recognition, please. Terrible originals and remakes are getting made all over LA. Danny McBride continues his ascendancy. And people get TV deals and I don’t. More »
Flotsam & Jetsam
Bright Lights, Big City, Old Ideas
1:43AM Richard | Movie deals for funny men, a TV deal for a funny woman, AMC branches out, SAG and AFTRA become friends again, and The Simpsons make the mail. More »Does Declaring Danny McBride The Next Big Thing Doom Him To Making Movies Like ‘Semi-Pro?’
8:25AM Seth | A little-known Hollywood antitrust ruling from the early 1900s—passed to prevent Fatty Arbuckle from an abuse of monopoly power—proclaims that every 15 months, a Next Big Funny Thing must be announced. That coronation is immediately followed by the casting of the new cat’s whiskers in every humorous screenplay in existence, where he’ll be called upon to play a variety of subtly tweaked takes on the same buffoonish character. Previous beneficiaries of the Doughy-White-Comedian Competition Law include Adam Sandler, Mike Myers, and Will Ferrell, and now, the star of Sundance breakout hit The Foot Fist Way, of whom an LAT headline demands to know, “Is Danny McBride the next comedy superstar?” More »
