Hannibal Buress Mic Cut While On Stage Over Priest Child Molestation Joke
Hannibal Buress had his mic cut off recently while performing at a university. Saturday night, the 35-year-old comedian was only on stage performing for a few minutes when officials at Catholic University abruptly cut his set short. Apparently, he was making a joke about the church’s history of child molestation.
Buress began his set by explaining that he received an email from the university with content that he could include in his set. Restrictions included the use of foul language and topics regarding rape, sexual assault, race and sexual orientation.
Minutes into his set he referenced molestation of children, and his microphone was cut off. The crowd booed at first, then quieted so he could be heard without a mic. But the background music volume raised until he stepped off the stage.
Loyola’s Department of Programming (DOP) assistant director, Leslie Watland, told the university’s newspaper,
“DOP students did not make any day-of decisions for Hannibal Buress’ show. Student Development Administrators made the decisions.”
Buress embarked on a comedy career in late 2009, gaining recognition after being featured in Comedy Central’s The Awkward Comedy Show. This enabled him to release his first comedy album, My Name is Hannibal. He has co-starred on Adult Swim’s The Eric Andre Show since 2012 and featured on Comedy Central’s Broad City since 2014.
Some suggest he is responsible for bringing Bill Cosby’s rape allegations to the public’s attention. On October 16, 2014, at the Philadelphia club The Trocadero, Buress was video recorded doing an extended bit about existing rape allegations against Cosby. Buress addressed Cosby’s legacy of “talk[ing] down” to young black men about their mode of dress and lifestyle. Buress criticized the actor’s public moralizing by saying,
“Yeah, but you raped women, Bill Cosby, so that kind of brings you down a couple notches.”
The audience appeared to respond to Buress’s accusation as an incredulous joke before he encouraged everyone to “Google ‘Bill Cosby rape’” when they got home. Buress had been using the same Cosby routine for the previous six months with little response, but the October performance went viral after being posted on Philadelphia magazine’s website. A media firestorm ensued, with numerous publications tackling the question of how Cosby had managed to maintain, as Buress called it in his set, a “teflon image” despite more than a decade of public sex abuse accusations.
Source: The Jasmine Brand
Chadwick Boseman To Jump In Comedy And Host ‘Saturday Night Live’!
We just discovered the news that actor Chadwick Boseman, star of Black Panther and Thurgood Marshall, has signed on to host NBC’s ‘Saturday Night Live‘!
Boseman is set to appear on the show on April 7th, when he’ll be joined by musical guest Cardi B. Our sources told us that we should expect at least 2 Black Panther sketches as they are already in the early stages of pre-planning.
Meanwhile, the Disney/Marvel film Black Panther recently continued to make history as Black Panther’s $1.182.5 billion global total makes it the 14th highest-grossing movie ever. And it’s clearly not finished, with perhaps another $100m or so left in the tank (it made $57m worldwide just this past weekend).
James Davis To Star In New NBC Comedy Pilot Titled ‘Friends-In-Law’!
Actor-comedian James Davis, star, creator and executive producer of Comedy Central’s series Hood Adjacent With James Davis, has been cast as the co-lead of NBC’s comedy pilot Friends-In-Law, from The McCarthys creator Brian Gallivan and Warner Bros TV.
Written by Gallivan, Friends-In-Law centers on Brian (Devere Rogers) and Jake (Davis) who are polar opposites and must quickly figure out how to coexist when their respective best friends, Margaret (Nicole Parker) and Randy (John Gemberling), decide to get married. Gallivan and Tom Werner executive produce.
Davis’ Jake is described as handsome and a little too arrogant.
Davis’ Hood Adjacent had a run as a limited series on Comedy Central earlier this year, receiving solid reviews. He has written for Late Late Show With James Corden and was recurring on Kevin Hart’s Real Husbands of Hollywood. He can be seen performing on Kevin Hart Presents: The Next Level on Comedy Central.
Source: Deadline
Wanda Sykes Set To Host The 29th Annual GLAAD Media Awards!
According to reports, we hear news that actor and comedian Wanda Sykes (of ABC’s black-ish fame) is set to host the 29th Annual GLAAD Media Awards in Los Angeles on Thursday, April 12 at the Beverly Hilton.
“Wanda Sykes’ humor, wit and status as one of the most visible out women in Hollywood make her the perfect host for the 29th Annual GLAAD Media Awards,” said Sarah Kate Ellis, GLAAD President and CEO.
More details soon.
Tichina Arnold Lands New Role In CBS’ Comedy Pilot Titled ‘Welcome to the Neighborhood’
Former House of Lies co-star Josh Lawson is set as the lead in CBS’ multi-camera comedy pilot Welcome to the Neighborhood. Survivor’s Remorse alumna Tichina Arnold also has been cast in a major series regular role in the project from Aaron Kaplan’s Kapital Entertainment and CBS TV Studios.
Written by Jim Reynolds and directed by James Burrows, Welcome to the Neighborhood centers on Dave (Lawson), the nicest guy in the Midwest who moves his family into a tough neighborhood in L.A. where not everyone appreciates his extreme neighborliness.
Lawson’s Dave is the most polite Midwestern guy you’ll ever meet who works as a conflict resolution expert, a job that calls for a friendly nature, and excellent diplomatic skills. He and his wife and son have moved from Michigan to live in their dream home, a vintage Craftsman house, in Pasadena. He realizes when they arrive that connecting with their new community is a more complex and delicate endeavor than he expected.
Courtesy of CBS
Arnold will play Loretta, Calvin’s (Cedric the Entertainer) wife. She’s the mother of Malcolm and Marty, and is very devoted to her faith. She judges the newcomers to her neighborhood by their knowledge of Scripture (nonexistent) and their Sunday service attendance record (shockingly poor!).
In addition to Cedric, Lawson and Arnold join previously cast Sheaun McKinney and Marcel Spears.
Reynolds executive produces with Kapital’s Kaplan and Dana Honor as well as Kapital-based producer Wendi Trilling via her TrillTV and Cedric and Eric Rhone of A Bird And A Bear Entertainment.
Lawson was nominated for an Academy Award this year for The Eleven O’Clock, a short film he wrote and starred in. He can recently be seen starring in Josh Greenbaum’s docu-film Becoming Bond for Hulu that won the Audience Award last year at SXSW. He previously starred as Doug Guggenheim on the Showtime comedy series House of Lies and can be seen recurring on NBC comedy Superstore. Lawson is repped by UTA, Silver Lining Entertainment and Jackoway Tyerman.
Arnold previously starred in Everybody Loves Chris and Martin and most recently played Cassie Calloway in Starz’s Survivor’s Remorse. She’s repped by APA and Tize & Company.
Ava DuVernay To Direct ‘The New Gods’ For Warner Brothers And DC!
After making history as the first woman of color to helm a $100 million-plus live-action film in A Wrinkle In Time, Ava DuVernay will continue to play in the event film sandbox. She’s closing a deal with Warner Bros and DC to direct a big-budget screen adaptation of The New Gods, the creation of revered comic book impresario Jack Kirby. The studio will quickly set a screenwriter who’ll craft the narrative and work closely with DuVernay.
This will be another $100M-plus film for DuVernay, who has taken quite a leap in scale since her breakout film Selma. She unveiled a New Gods connection late last year when she responded to a question on social media on who her favorite superhero is. “Big Barda. Many reasons” was her reply. Big Barda is one of the New Gods and the wife of Mister Miracle, also a Kirby creation.
This is a bold move for Warner Bros/DC and not just because this is the second superhero franchise they’ve handed to a female director after Patty Jenkins turned Wonder Woman into a crowd-pleasing blockbuster and is working on the sequel with Gal Gadot. Unlike recent DC fare, this is a freestanding world created and designed by Kirby back in 1971, not long after the prolific comic legend had exited Marvel.
There is no connection to the other DC worlds being exploited for film right now by Warner Bros, where studio boss Toby Emmerich and his newly installed DC production president Walter Hamada are moving forward with new approach to filmmakers on their DC-based fare.
The New Gods was the Genesis of the uber-villain Darkseid. Also called “Fourth World,” the Kirby creation debuted in a trilogy of related comics written and drawn by Kirby that were published in the very early 1970s: New Gods, Forever People and Mister Miracle. The New Gods came into existence after the world of the gods of classic mythology were destroyed during Ragnarok. The deities inhabit two planets: one is New Genesis, a lush paradise, and the other Apokolips, which sounds like Dante’s version of hell. War ensues. There is a rich universe of extraordinary characters for DuVernay to play with here. This will be a fun one to follow.
Source: Deadline
Bill Cosby Loses Latest Appeal In Defamation Case
Janice Dickinson can proceed with her defamation suit against Bill Cosby. In the last round of the ongoing legal battle, the California Supreme Court has rejected Cosby’s request to overturn an appeals court decision that favored Dickinson.
“That means our case against him, on behalf of our brave client Janice Dickinson, moves forward,” Dickinson’s attorney Lisa Bloom tweeted today. She said the state’s Supreme Court denied review of the lower court’s Dickinson-favored rulings on three out of three issues. (See her tweet below.)
The California Supreme Court posted the March 14 disposition – “Petitions for review denied” – on its website this morning.
Former model Dickinson sought — and last November was granted — court permission to make use of certain documents (including a Team Cosby press release and letter to press outlets) that she claims support her contention that Cosby defamed her as a liar. Dickinson has alleged that she was raped and drugged by Cosby in 1982, and that Cosby and members of his legal team accused her of lying when she later made the accusation.
Last November, California’s Second Appellate District court ruled that Dickinson could use the documents to prove her case. Dickinson also is seeking to include Cosby’s former lawyer Marty Singer as a defendant, which yesterday’s Supreme Court decision now allows.
At a hearing in October, the Court of Appeals rejected an earlier ruling by Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Debre Weintraub that dropped Singer from the case. At that time, Singer’s lawyer Jeremy B. Rosen told Deadline that Singer’s statements about Dickinson “are absolutely protected by the First Amendment as they simply set forth his opinions regarding the allegations plaintiff made about Mr. Singer’s then client.” Rosen vowed to take the issue to the California Supreme Court.
Source: Deadline
‘Young & Hungry’ Starring Kym Whitley Set To Return For Its Final Season On Freeform!
Freeform announced today fan-favorite comedy series “Young & Hungry” will return for its final season on Wednesday, June 20 at 8:00 PM EDT/PDT.
The final season (5B) sees Gabi and Josh finally together and in love, but now navigating their new status as a full-fledged couple. Meanwhile, the rest of Josh’s staff, Yolanda and Elliot, are grappling with the change in work dynamic with Gabi as the “woman of the house.” Sofia, Gabi’s best friend, who begins to feel like a third wheel with the new couple, sets out on her own path to find love.
Additionally, Freeform has ordered into development a “Young & Hungry” movie, from the same series creative team including David Holden, Caryn Lucas, Ashley Tisdale, and Eric and Kim Tannenbaum, that will further the adventures of Gabi, Josh and their circle of friends.
“Young & Hungry” is produced by Holden, Lucas, Tisdale, Jessica Rhoades and Eric and Kim Tannenbaum in association with CBS Television Studios. Gabi Moskowitz, of BrokeAssGourmet.com, is a San Francisco-based food blogger and contributed to the development of this project. The series stars Emily Osment, Jonathan Sadowski, Aimee Carrero, Kym Whitley and Rex Lee.
Freeform’s robust slate of original scripted series includes smash hit comedy “grown-ish,” and breakout series “The Bold Type;” along with buddy comedy “Alone Together;” supernatural thriller “Beyond;” “Famous In Love” starring Bella Thorne; critically acclaimed “The Fosters;” sci-fi phenomenon “Shadowhunters;” fan favorite “Young & Hungry;” the upcoming mermaid drama “Siren”, and the eagerly awaited series “Marvel’s Cloak & Dagger,” coming in June 2018.
Jordan Peele And Keegan-Michael Key Teaming Up For New Netflix Stop-Motion Film!
It’s a Key and Peele reunion!
Jordan Peele and Keegan-Michael Key are reuniting for an upcoming project at Netflix.
It is a stop-motion film, Wendell and Wild. Peele and Key will stars as the titular brothers, who are demons, “forced to face-off against their arch-enemy in order to earn their way out of hell.”
Peele, who won an Oscar for the script for Get Out, is writing with Henry Selick and Clay McLeod Chapman, based on an original script by Selick.
Peele is producing through his Monkeypaw Productions along with Selick and Ellen Goldsmith-Vein. Sarah Serata is co-producing and executive producers are Win Rosenfeld for Monkeypaw, Peter Principato and Joel Zadak for Principato-Young, Lindsay Williams and Eddie Gamarra for The Gotham Group.
Key and Peele won two Emmy awards for their show, Key and Peele.
SOurce: Shadow & Act
Watch The Trailer For Idris Elba’s Comedy Series Titled ‘In The Long Run’
Sky has debuted the first trailer for the Idris Elba comedy series, In The Long Run.
The series, which will air on Sky in the UK, is loosely based on his childhood. The cast stars Elba and also includes Bill Bailey, Kellie Shirley, Jimmy Akingbola and Mattie Boys.
Set in London 1985, In the Long Run is about the Easmon family. Amid the tower blocks and shell suits, life for Walter (Elba) and Evelyn Easmon is all about quiet routine. They arrived from Sierra Leone 13 years ago and are happy earning enough to pay the bills with a bit left over to send back home. Walter works hard alongside his mate and neighbor Bagpipes (Bill Bailey) at the local factory while Evelyn patrols the estate selling make-up door-to-door. Their British born son Akuna and his best mate Scott hang out on the estate playing football and doing their best to dodge the local thugs.
But when Walter’s brother Valentine arrives to the UK, his energy and lust for life changes everything. He crashes into their lives bringing laughter and chaos and igniting a passion for music in Akuna. And though he frustrates Evelyn and tests Walter’s patience, Akuna adores his ‘funcle’ Valentine because after all, he is family.
Exec Producers are Idris Elba and Gina Carter, Charlie Hanson is producing, Declan Lowney and Cecile Emeke direct and writers are Claire Downes, Ian Jarvis, Stuart Lane and Grace Ofori-Attah.
In the Long Run is a co-production between Green Door and Sprout Pictures.
