Like the depictions of zombies themselves, zombie films are getting smarter and more complex.Ħ. Case in point, there is a Japanese, English-language zombie mockumentary in the works from Japanese comedian Shinagawa Hiroshi and writing duo Midnight Pizza called Among the Dead ( Variety). The zombie film and TV subgenre is so expansive that it very well could almost be its own genre separate from horror. They cited the reasoning of it “…falling below public expectations,” which makes some sort of sense since Brand never really outdid his performance in Forgetting Sarah Marshall (where he played a sex obsessed rock star, mind you).ĥ. With multiple investigations going into allegations of sexual assault, rape, and emotional abuse by Russell Brand, both the BBC and Channel 4 in the UK have removed all content featuring Brand ( Deadline).

Has Netflix finally gotten closer to the bottom of what seemed like bottomless pockets?Ĥ. Heather McMahan will be the latest beloved, headlining comedian to go the route of self-producing their special and then Netflix buying it as Netflix announced the release of her hour Son I Never Had slated for Oct. Watch our digital cover story with John & his #Hairspray star /Yfzbk3sKi1ģ. John Waters speaks at the unveiling of his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame: 'Here I am, closer to the gutter than ever!' Unsurprisingly, Waters gave what very well be the best Hollywood Walk of Fame acceptance speech ever. As such, it’s about time that he got his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and this week saw that momentous event come to pass. When the word “cult” is being used an appreciative adjective rather than a disturbing noun, there might not be a name more synonymous with that iteration of the word than filmmaker and cultural icon, John Waters. Take your first gander at Dream Scenario here.Ģ. If that’s not the perfect role for Cage, we don’t know what else would be. Simply put, Cage plays a rather ordinary professor who, all of sudden, starts appearing in everyone’s dreams. an entrancing balance of nuance and “going full Cage”) is back in Dream Scenario, a comedy of literal dreams, from rising star Norwegian director Kristoffer Borgli ( Sick of Myself). It seems like the Nicholas Cage from Weather Man (i.e. I'm sure this is an easy way to inflate Jimmy Kimmel's already substantial paycheck and a way for him to keep some of his cronies who he came up with relevant, other than that I have no idea why this is back on the air.Among the dead, dream scenario, heather mcmahan, jena friedman, john waters, nicholas cage, nyc comedy, russell brand, second city, walk of fameġ. Combine that with eating up valuable air time and I have a very hard time justifying this show being on at all.

Look at the names they get for this - Wanda Sykes, Adam Carolla, etc, so, obviously for the cheap recording of the phone calls and the fairly cheap puppet enactment, a major budget is spent on the show's poor script writing and post-production which, for me, I can't imagine how much, but I'm sure whatever the budget for this low-grade entertainment, too much. Not on The man Show not as a night show host and definitely not his production work on this. I don't know I must have been 12 or 14 or something and I found it annoying, even then. At all.īack in the day here in Canada, when South park used to come on Comedy Channel this would come on soon after, and I honestly tried to watch it a few times when I was a kid, while I was supposed to be in bed, staying up late to watch the grown up shows. I don't know there must be an audience for a plot-less prank call show with the plots acted out by puppets with stereotypical acting and clichebackgrounds- I just don't find it funny.

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