WATCH: Ice Cube Answers Questions About His Son & If He Will Land In Any Of His Comedy Franchises!
Here is an interview we here at The Humor Mill conducted with Ice Cube on the red carpet of the American Black Film Festival’s Honors Award Show which will broadcast on BET, and Cube discusses if his son will be in ANY franchise from Friday to possibly Ride Along.
We also ask his son O’Shea Jackson, Jr. if he will be in any of the comedy films.
Check out the reply to the question that everyone has been asking below;
Golden Brooks Joins Damon Wayans Sr. For ‘Lethal Weapon’ Reboot For FOX!
Girlfriends alumna Golden Brooks is set to co-star opposite Damon Wayans Sr. in Lethal Weapon, Fox’s hourlong pilot based on the hit buddy cop action comedy movie franchise.
In the pilot, written by Matt Miller and directed by McG,when Texas cop and former Navy SEAL Martin Riggs suffers the loss of his wife and baby, he moves to Los Angeles to start anew. There, he is partnered with LAPD detective Roger Murtaugh (Wayans), who, having recently suffered a “minor” heart attack, must avoid stress in his life.
Brooks will play Roger’s hardworking, perceptive and loving wife Trish, who worries about him and is not thrilled when she hears about his new adrenaline-crazed partner. In the movies, Trish was played by Darlene Love and Roger by Danny Glover.
Miller, McG, Dan Lin and Jennifer Gwartz executive produce the pilot for Warner Bros. TV and Lin Pictures.
Brooks, who co-starred on Girlfriends for eight seasons and recurred on the CW’s Hart Of Dixie, currently recurs on Starz’s Blunt Talkand filmed a recurring role in Freeform’sNicki Minaj comedy pilot. She is repped by Primary Wave Entertainment and Global Artists Agency.
Source: Deadline
Kevin Hart Joins Dwayne Johnson As Hosts Of The 2016 MTV Movie Awards!
Dwayne Johnson and Kevin Hart will host the 2016 MTV Movie Awards together, Variety has learned. The annual show, which airs on Sunday, April 10 at 8 p.m., will come prior to the duo’s summer film “Central Intelligence.”
This year’s MTV Movie Awards, which marks the 25th anniversary for the award show, will be pre-taped live-style across the Warner Bros. backlot the day before the broadcast on April 9, taking place outdoors across multiple locations, unlike most award shows, which air from a singular theater.
“We want to do a big, brave thing to celebrate movies,” the show’s exec producer Casey Patterson says of filming across the backlot. “We love Kevin and Dwayne for doing big, risky, bold things. Most award shows play it safe. They’re the right guys to take big swings.”
Patterson says Johnson and Hart make the perfect hosts because they engage with their fans. “We could not be in better hands than with these two guys because they really represent what it means to be a movie star right now,” the exec producer tells Variety. “They talk directly to their fans all the time. They are always in a conversation with their fans.”
“It’s an honor to be hosting the ‘MTV Movie Awards’ with a guy who’s not only one of the funniest guys on the planet, but who’s often mistaken as my twin, Kevin Hart,” said Johnson. “We live for our fans and promise to make this an epic, historic unforgettable night for them.”
Hart commented, “I love hosting — it’s my thing. Dwayne and I are the perfect team for the epic 25th anniversary show. It’s going to go down.”
“They understand exactly who MTV’s audience is, and growing up, this was their premiere movie award show,” Patterson says of the hosting duo, adding that the chemistry is “ridiculous” between the two of them. “The energy and the vibe of the show is very loose and anything can happen, and I think they can really be themselves. They organically have so much fun together. It won’t be about what we script. It will be those two just having fun and playing and celebrating movies. They love making movies for this audience, and they know what the fans love about their films so they’re going to be fantastic in that role.”
Marking the first award show to do so, filming across an entire backlot with multiple stages is in the vein of recent live television events, such as Fox’s “Grease Live!” which also taped on the Warner Bros. lot. The reason for the large production, per MTV, is to capture movie magic on the lot.
“We’re just excited to go out onto the streets on a movie lot so that we can celebrate films in a different way,” Patterson explains. “We’re going right where movies are made and we’re making this show right in the heart of that. We want to celebrate all the films of the year in a really theatrical way, and this space really allows us to do that.”
The scope of the show will be huge, Patterson adds: We are taking over. We are doing the show entirely outside so that we get as many fans packed in as possible in a festival way, which will be super exciting and never done before. Having two hosts is very helpful!”
As for being pre-taped, Patterson says its not because production spanning across many locations is too big to be live, but rather to get the right vibe. “We want to take advantage of all the drama of the backlot at night under the stars,” she says, explaining that the show will tape Saturday night and air on Sunday, giving a small window of time in between the televised show, which Patterson says will lend to the live-TV feel. (In order to get the look of the pitch black night on the outdoor set, if broadcast live, the show wouldn’t air until very late on the west coast after the sun sets.)
WATCH: New Red Band Trailer Of Mike Epps, George Lopez, In ‘Meet The Blacks’!
A big move to Beverly Hills, King Bach chasing you with a gun, Mike Tyson in a perm, and an angry mob of neighbors attempting to kill you on the one night crime is legal… this is probably what Carl Black (Mike Epps) and family would describe if you were to ever meet the Blacks. Prepare to be entertained as we witness this family of highly untrained, nonprofessionals do what it takes to get through the purge with their number one rule to surviving the night – doing what white people don’t do in scary movies! Check out the new red band trailer below where misadventure, panic and comedy unravel in this hilarious upcoming spoof, MEET THE BLACKS, starring Mike Epps.
MEET THE BLACKS hits theaters nationwide April 1st!
The Black family is getting out of Chicago in hopes of a better life. After Carl Black (Mike Epps) recently came into some unexpected funds, Carl takes his family and leaves the hustling lifestyle behind for something better. Carl, his wife Lorena (Zulay Henao), son Carl Jr., daughter Allie Black (Bresha Webb) and cousin Cronut (Lil Duval) pack up and move to Beverly Hills. As luck wouldn’t have it, Carl couldn’t have picked a worse time to move. They arrive right around the time of the annual purge, when all crime is legal for twelve hours.
Lisa Bonet Set To Join Showtime’s ‘Ray Donovan’!
According to several reports it looks like actress Lisa Bonet is headed to a dangerous world.
The Cosby Show alumna is joining Ray Donovan‘s upcoming fourth season in a major recurring role, TVLine has learned exclusively.
Bonet, whose more recent TV credits include arcs on SundanceTV’s The Red Roadand ABC’s short-lived Life on Mars, will play Marisol, an unstable woman with a damaging secret.
This marks the Showtime drama’s fourth new Season 4 hire, following the casting of Gabriel Mann (Revenge), Ted Levine (Monk) and Ismael Cruz Cordova (The Good Wife).
Sherri Shepherd And John Lithgow Land In NBC Legal Comedy ‘The Trail’!
John Lithgow is returning to NBC.
The former 3rd Rock From the Sun star, as well as former TheView co-host Sherri Shepherd, have signed on to star in the network’s legal comedy pilot The Trail, The Hollywood Reporterhas learned.
The Trail is described as a serialized single-camera comedy following a young big-city lawyer and his oddball defense team during a high-profile murder trial in a small Southern town.
Lithgow will play the man on trial, Larry Henderson. A smart but slightly clueless poetry professor at a South Carolina community college who is accused of killing his wife, Larry finds the whole notion of being charged with murder absurd, but he has a couple secrets that could really derail his defense.
Source: The Hollywood Reporter
On This Day In Comedy… In 2011 ‘Big Momma’s House 3: Like Father, Like Son’ Was Released!
On this day in comedy on February 18, 2011 Big Momma’s House 3: Like Father, Like Son was released by 20th Century Fox
Martin Lawrence once again plays FBI agent, Malcolm Turner in this sequel to the sequel to the original. This time out Lawrence has to go undercover as an old woman to protect his stepson, who saw a murder. Naturally the step-son (Brandon T. Jackson) has to dress up like a female too and they hide out in an all-girls school. The stepson falls for one of the girls. One of the workers (Faizon Love) falls for Big Momma. They blow their covers. The gang of killers catch up to them and just as they are about to kill the duo somebody (in this case Love) come in just in the nick of time to save the day. Yay!
Big Momma’s House 3 was critically panned. There were more than one Razzie Award nomination. However, on the upside, Faizon Love’s performance was heralded and the film was shot for less than the two previous offerings from the franchise. This was due to being shot in Georgia and Lawrence taking less money.
Budgeted at $32 million, Big Momma’s House 3 grossed $83,915,414 worldwide.
On This Day In Comedy… In 1994 ‘Thea’ Signed Off On ABC!
On This Day In Comedy on February 16, 1994 Thea aired its last episode on ABC
Premiering on September 8, 1993, this sitcom made history because it was the first to star and be named after a Black comedienne. Thea Vidale was that comedienne. On the show she was Thea Turrell, a Houston, Texas supermarket worker / home based cosmetologist. Her porch was her station and there was no booth rent. Besides the two jobs she had four kids. That’s why she needed the two jobs. Ratings were strong out of the box, but declined steadily until by the end of its only season, Thea was #43 in the ratings. ABC pulled the plug after 19 episodes aired.
Besides having the historical significance of its racial first, Thea was like a who’s who of unknown future household names. Grammy Award winning singer, Brandy Norwood was featured on the show. It was her first sitcom. Comedienne, Yvette Wilson was a regular and so was Countess Vaughn. Years later all of them would star (Brandy) and be featured in Moesha for UPN. Comedians, Miguel Nunez, Jr. (Life) and Blake Clark (Community) were also in the cast, along with Jason Weaver (singer J-Weav), Cleavant Derrick (Sliders), Arvie Lowe, Jr. (Lizzie McGuire), Venus Demilo Thomas (Sister, Sister), Dennis Burkley (Sanford), Marcus T. Paulk (Moesha) and the future Miss Regina “Piggy” Grier in the form of Wendy Raquel Robinson (The Steve Harvey Show) playing Thea’s baby sister.
Thea received a Young Artist Awards nomination for Outstanding Youth Ensemble in a Television Series.
On This Day In Comedy… In 2005 Chris Rock’s ‘Never Scared’ Was Released!
On this day in comedy on February 15, 2005 Never Scared was released by DreamWorks / Geffen
This was Chris Rock’s fourth album and fourth HBO special simultaneously. Never Scared was taped at Washington DC’s DAR Constitution Hall March 24-26 in 2004. Once it aired on HBO, the DVD version dropped August 31st. The 25 track album came out six months later offering the jokes and added bonus of recorded music, parodies and skits. Rock intertwines the themes of “Tip Your Hat to Whitey” and “Thug Radio” throughout the CD and collaborates with rapper Lil’ Jon on “Get Lower”. It’s a hilarious roller coaster ride of comedy with the track titles setting you up for the trip:
“Thug Radio Intro” – 0:25
“Off the Pole” – 5:57
“Real People of Ignorance (Rap Star)” – 1:02
“Smack Her With A Dick (Rap Stand Up)” – 9:25
“K-Rock” – 0:12
“Get Lower (featuring” – 2:38
“Jacksons Gone Wild” – 10:05
“Thug News” – 0:34
“Tip Your Hat to Whitey (Hawaii)” – 1:19
“The War” – 3:01
“Black Poet” – 1:48
“Feed Other Countries” – 1:38
“Ballmart” – 0:38
“Drugs, Donuts, & Wealth” – 9:42
“Thug Radio ID” – 0:10
“Tip Your Hat to Whitey (Jamaica)” – 1:33
“Affirmative Action” – 7:50
“Tip Your Hat to Whitey (Mars)” – 1:27
“Don’t Cheat” – 1:29
“The Morning After” – 0:21
“Real People of Ignorance (Tattoo)” – 1:03
“Women Hate Women” – 2:42
“K-Rock ID #2” – 0:05
“Marriage” – 7:42
“Thug Radio Sign Off” – 2:40
Never Scared won the Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album in 2006.
On This Day In Comedy… In 1962 Comedian, Actor, Fred “Snowflake” Toones Passed Away!
On this day in comedy on February 13, 1962 Comedian, Actor, Fred “Snowflake” Toones died in Los Angeles, California
Born January 5, 1906, Toones was one of the most prolific character actors in Hollywood history of any race. He appeared in over 200 motion pictures in a career that spanned from 1928-1951. His specialty were westerns and he worked for acclaimed directors such as Preston Sturges and with noted cinema stars like John Wayne, Bruce Bennett, Laurel and Hardy and the Three Stooges, just to name a few. In most of his appearances his characters often went by Toones’ stage name of “Snowflake”, but many times he went uncredited.
Fred Toones was part of the old studio system which meant Fred Toones was a victim of old Hollywood stereotyping. Toones stereotype was that of the domestic. He played a porter over 50 times. He also played janitors, elevator operators, doormen, bellhops, stable grooms, valets, butlers, cooks and bartenders. In six of his films Toones portrayed a shoeshine man. The irony of this was the fact that not only did Fred Toones play shoe shiners in the movies, he actually ran a shoe shine stand at Republic Studios.
Some would consider Toones a poor man’s Stepin Fetchit, but that characterization would be inaccurate. In the over 200 films Toones made he was only credited in 73 of them. As an uncredited actor those roles were considered bit player work and he was paid as such. Whereas Stepin Fetchit made only 53 films, but he was paid for all of them. So even though they played the exact same roles, Stepin Fetchit became the first Black millionaire movie star and Fred Toones shined shoes on a studio lot.
