The World Famous Comedy Store to host Hands and Hearts of Hope Foundation for an evening of fun and fundraising Featuring Tommy Davidsons, Craig Robinson and Paul Rodriguez.
On Wednesday, June 19th, 2019 some of the most influential comics will come together for an unforgettable night of comedy and charity at the world famous Comedy Store. This very special evening will benefit the Hands and Hearts of Hope Foundation, The Comedians Assistance Fund and the Cancer Support Community Los Angeles.
The evening will be hosted by Tommy Davidson and feature appearances and performances by Paul Rodriguez, Craig Robinson, Bobby Lee, Chris Spencer, Kirk Fox (Showtime Special) and Benji Brown.
The Hearts and Hands of Hope Foundation was started by Patti Raynor and Michael Hubbard. Patti’s 35 years of service in the charity space and Michaels experience as an entertainment executive bring heart resources and a committed board and team to help provide immediate responsive outreach to people in critical need regardless or age or circumstance. They will work to create and provide programs to help transform the life’s of others and seek to mentor and support the less fortunate. Red carpet arrivals start at 7pm with the door to the show at 8pm.
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Following the success of Live in Front of a Studio Audience, Jimmy Kimmel’s live staging on Norman Lear’s All in the Family and The Jeffersons last month, ABC is looking to turn it into an event franchise.
The network’s President of Entertainment Karey Burke revealed that 22M had watched the special since its May 25 premiere.
“It is something that we looked at as a franchise if it worked, and we didn’t know if it would work,” she said. “We didn’t know if people would still care and it was nice they did. With something like that we would look to return it, not on a weekly basis, I think these things are tentpoles around which we can build sustaining weekly scripted programming, to use as a big circulation play.
Kimmel’s passion project handed ABC a win on the final night of the 2018-19 season by strong margins. From 8-9:30 PM ET, ABC’s live, star-strewn Lear sitcoms reboot averaged 10.36 million viewers and a 1.7 demo rating in Live+Same Day to outstrip all broadcast primetime competition. It also totalled 15 million combined viewers when including Live+3 and a Saturday repeat. This was above the point six that Kimmel joked to Burke that it might receive.
Speaking at the HRTS The Network Chiefs lunch, Burke added, “We’ve been leaning really hard into live event programming. It introduced a whole new generation of people to those shows and those themes in a way that hadn’t been done before and I don’t know if that’s something that would have been as relevant on streaming.”
Live in Front of a Studio Audience: Norman Lear’s All in the Family and The Jeffersons starred Woody Harrelson, Marisa Tomei, Jamie Foxx, Wanda Sykes among many others including Jennifer Hudson’s belting out of The Jefferson’s “Movin On Up” theme song and Marla Gibbs’ surprise appearance reprising her role as George and Louise Jefferson’s maid Florence Johnston.
All in the Family originally ran on CBS from 1971 through 1979, starring Carol O’Connor and Jean Stapleton as Archie and Edith Bunker, and tackling then-controversial subjects such as women’s rights, racism and homosexuality. Its ratings success launched a spinoff, The Jeffersons, which ran on CBS from ’75 to ’85.
Source: Deadline
Colson Baker aka rapper Machine Gun Kelly will be working with Saturday Night Live cast member Pete Davidson again on the big screen in the latter’s Untitled Judd Apatow/Pete Davidson Comedy at Universal.
Earlier this year, Baker and Davidson starred in Jason Orley’s indie comedy Big Time Adolescence which made its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival. The Apatow/Davidson movie rounds out a busy summer for Baker. As Machine Gun Kelly, he’ll be releasing his fourth studio album “Hotel Diablo” later this month and will be starting a worldwide tour. Next up, Baker can be seen in Netflix’s Untitled Henry & Rel Sci-Fi Project opposite Jamie Foxx and Joseph Gordon-Levitt. He’ll also soon begin production on Punk with Cara Delevigne, a title that was announced at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. Recent credits include Focus Features’ Captive State and the Netflix Motley Crue movie The Dirt as drummer Tommy Lee.
Machine Gun Kelly’s 2012 album “Lace Up” debuted at No. 4 on the U.S. Billboard 200 chart selling north of 180K copies. His second studio album “General Admission” debuted at No. 4 stateside in 2015. Kelly’s single “Bad Things” with Camia Cabello peaked at No. 4 on the Billboard Hot 100, making it his highest charting single.
In the Apatow/Davidson movie, Baker joins the growing cast of Marisa Tomei, Bill Burr, Bel Powley, Maude Apatow and Pamela Adlon. Baker is repped by Paradigm, Ashleigh Veverka and Byron Kirkland.
Universal Senior Executive Vice President of Production Erik Baiers is overseeing the Apatow/Davidson project at the studio. Cameras roll this summer for a release date of June 19, 2020. In addition to directing, Apatow is producing under his Apatow Productions alongside Barry Mendel.
Source: Deadline
Have you ever thought what it would be like if the iconic 2000s character, Raven Baxter (Raven-Symoné), was in Jordan Peele’s game-changing horror film, Get Out.
It’s an unlikely combination, but it is one that is an absolute hoot in this recent viral video on Twitter. The impersonation is spot-on as Raven visits Chelsea’s house and finds out things may not be as they seem.
The mastermind of the video is Jaylin Eaves, an LA-based actress and comedian. She came up with the video while working on an upcoming audition. “I’ve been working on my characters for an upcoming audition and I love Raven. She inspired me to act. I used to keep track of how many times I watched her show as a kid because I just loved it so much,” she told Shadow And Act. “I could recite almost every word from any That’s So Raven episode, so I knew I wanted to do an impression of her, and I just thought her in Get Out would be funny. I wrote the script in about 3 minutes and just went for it on my couch. It didn’t get passed to submit for my audition, so I decided to post it.”
Eaves said she didn’t expect the response on Twitter and wasn’t even going to post it to the social media platform at first. She told us, “Initially, I only posted it on Instagram because I’m not very active on Twitter, so it wasn’t my first thought. But I wanted it on all my social media accounts, so I changed my mind and thankfully so. I posted it and went to work so I wasn’t paying attention. I checked back later and my notifications were blowing up so fast. I had no idea this would happen. Everyone is so supportive of tagging Raven on the post too, so I”m hoping she sees it.”
Eaves hopes to get involved with everything — including sketches, touring, writing and directing, with hopes that she can make all of this a reality for her soon.
If “Raven Baxter” from That’s So Raven was in the movie Get Out pic.twitter.com/mf43PsyIrD
— Jaylin Eaves (@_jayeav) June 2, 2019
Source: Shadow & Act
Earlier today website Shadow and Act debuted the new trailer for the upcoming film, Skin in The Game. Set for a theatrical release soon, it premiered at Urbanworld Film Festival last September.
The description: Abducted off the sidewalk of suburban America, fifteen-year-old Dani finds herself trapped in the horrific underground world of human trafficking. With no initial assistance from the police, Dani’s mother and an ex-prostitute take to the streets in an effort to find her before it is too late.
Directed by Adisa in his feature directorial debut, the film stars Erica Ash, Elisabeth Harnois, Angélica Celaya, Sammi Hanratty.
Watch the trailer below:
Source: Shadow & Act
“The 2019 ESPYS Presented by Capital One” will be hosted by acclaimed actor and comedian Tracy Morgan. Morgan, who currently stars on the critically acclaimed “The Last O.G.,” will be joined by top celebrities from sports and entertainment to commemorate the past year in sports by recognizing major sports achievements, reliving unforgettable moments, and saluting the leading performers and performances. “The ESPYS” will be broadcast live on ABC, WEDNESDAY, JULY 10 (8:00–11:00 p.m. EDT), from Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles.
“I am very excited to be hosting ‘The ESPYS,’” said Morgan. “I hope my Uncle Sidney Poitier is there with my biological father Tony Dorsett and my second cousin Herschel Walker. And Bo Jackson, I want my $2 back!”
Morgan is one of the most notable and respected comedy actors of our time. He received an Emmy® nomination for his work on “30 Rock” and is a nine-time NAACP Image Award nominee. Morgan also received an Emmy nomination for his triumphant return to “Saturday Night Live,” where he had previously starred for seven seasons.
“Tracy is effortlessly funny and deeply passionate about sports,” said “ESPYS” executive producer Maura Mandt. “He’s a natural choice to host ‘The ESPYS’ and we’re thrilled to have him. Few people can own a room like Tracy Morgan, and I can’t wait to see what he has in store for the show.”
“The ESPYS” helps to raise awareness and funds for the V Foundation for Cancer Research, the charity founded by ESPN and the late basketball coach Jim Valvano at the first “ESPYS” back in 1993. ESPN has helped raise close to $97 million for the V Foundation over the past 26 years. Tickets are available for public purchase at AXS.com. “The ESPYS” are executive produced by Maura Mandt and co-produced by Maggievision Productions.
Though the absence of a mainline Fast and Furious film has left us with a car-shaped hole in the summer blockbuster schedule, it definitely looks like the upcoming spinoff, Hobbs & Shaw, will provide more than enough high-octane action and crazy car chases to fill the gap.
For those unfamiliar with the project, it’ll focus on Dwayne Johnson’s Luke Hobbs and Jason Statham’s Deckard Shaw as they team up alongside new players like Vanessa Kirby, Eiza Gonzalez, Eddie Marsan, Stephanie Vogt and, of course, Idris Elba, who’s going to be the villain of the piece. It’s an incredible cast, to be sure, but it seems that there’s one person who Universal’s been hiding in the shadows, hoping to keep his involvement a secret until the film hits theaters.
As you likely surmised by the title, we’re talking about none other than Kevin Hart. Yes, the beloved comedian/actor has apparently boarded The Fast and the Furious franchise and will appear in Hobbs & Shaw as an Air Marshall who gets caught up in the adventure somehow. Sources close to We Got This Covered have informed us that it’s unknown whether he’ll also be showing up in future installments in the franchise following this one, but given that he’s a pretty big name, we imagine he might be.
Unfortunately, we don’t have any further details on Hart’s role at the moment, but as with Keanu Reeves and Ryan Reynolds, who are also in the film, it sounds like Hobbs & Shaw may just give him a small part in order to set up a larger presence for him in another movie down the road. Or, it could just be a fun cameo and this might be Hart’s only appearance in the franchise. Time will tell.
Regardless, it’s exciting to learn that the always enjoyable actor will be showing up in the spinoff and his incredible energy and comedic timing will no doubt be a welcome addition to the film. Coupled with the rest of the cast, it looks like Hobbs & Shaw has all the makings of a huge summer hit and will likely prove to be another exhilarating outing for The Fast and the Furious franchise when it zooms into theaters on August 2nd.
Source: WeGotThisCOvered.Com
Pete Davidson: Saturday Night Live cast member, comedian, actor — and model!
Davidson, 25, made his runway debut walking in designer Alexander Wang‘s Collection1 2020 show at New York City’s Rockefeller Center on Friday night, garnering loud cheers from spectators.
Davidson wore a plain white tank, showing off his tattoos, as well as two-tone jeans. His look was topped off with a black baseball hat, placed backward on his head, a logo belt and sneakers.
The outdoor show was special for more than just Davidson’s surprise appearance.
Wang, 35, made the event open to the public, inviting New Yorkers to watch from the Rockefeller Center’s upper plaza. Fashion industry invitees sat on the lower level, closer to the rink where the models walked the runway.
“Part of the coup of winning this location is that the company has a really organized location for industry types to sit and see the show in a very controlled manner on the lower level,” an Alexander Wang spokesperson told WWD earlier this week.
“Then, we invite essentially New York City to come to experience the show on the upper plaza. As an American brand that is rooted in New York, Rockefeller Center represented the energy and the epicenter of New York City.”
The brand has also been promoting the event on its Twitter and Instagram pages, saying “all are welcome.”
“We thought of this as a public moment as well, so that anyone who comes to see the show will also experience something beyond seeing it from the upper plaza,” the spokesperson said. Fans who couldn’t make the show in person were invited to watch online via livestream.
Kendall Jenner, Kaia Gerber, and Binx Walton also walked in the show Friday, per Vogue.
The SNL star wore the designer on the cover of Variety last year, and has been known to wear Wang pieces as streetwear — contributing to his specific aesthetic that has become known as “scumbro.”
Wang himself has been busy in addition to the Collection1; he designed Hailey Bieber‘s custom “camp“-themed dress at the Met Gala earlier this month.
Source: People, Vogue