We just discovered that comedic actor Kel Mitchell, probably best known for his show Kenan & Kel and his most recent films Dance Fu and Caught On Tape, recently wed Asia Lee on January 8th.
Kel most recently appeared in BET’s hot sitcom The Game, and we hear he has several other films in development. No word yet on what, but as soon as we can say you know we will tell you.
Congratulations to the new and happy couple!
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To know one’s surprise at all, comedian Kevin Hart has managed to continue to capitalize on the social media with his latest DVD, Laugh At My Pain.
We just discovered that Laugh At My Pain has now become the number one stand up performance album sold on Itunes of all time, the number three comedy film and the number nine movie overall. Now that Hart is about to reach three million Twitter followers, is this really surprising?
Anyway, Laugh At My Pain was produced by Codeblack Entertainment late last winter in less than 200 theaters and recorded over seven million dollars during it’s theatrical run. As we said, Hart continues to break new ground.
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Last night the film The Help won big at the Critic Choice Awards. Here is the article from The Loop 21 which covered the event;
“The Help,” the controversial film about maids in 1960s Mississippi, won big at last night’s Critics Choice Awards.
The film took home honors in three categories, including Best Actress (Viola Davis), Best Supporting Actress (Octavia Spencer) and Best Ensemble.
“The two most important days in a person’s life are the day you were born and the day you discover why you were born,” Davis said during her acceptance speech.
“I considered it my honor to pay homage to these women at this time period who were not allowed to dream and not allowed to find their purpose but thank God, praise God they gave birth to me and my mother,” she continued.
And here’s a look at the full list of winners:
Best Picture: “The Artist”
Best Comedy: “Bridesmaids”
Best Animated Feature: “Rango”
Best Action Movie: “Drive”
Best Documentary: “George Harrison: Living in the Material World”
Best Director: Michel Hazanavicius, “The Artist”
Best Actress: Viola Davis, “The Help”
Best Actor: George Clooney, “The Descendants”
Best Supporting Actress: Octavia Spencer, “The Help”
Best Supporting Actor: Christopher Plummer, “Beginners”
Best Ensemble: “The Help”
Best Young Actor: Thomas Horn, “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close”
Best Adapted Screenplay: Aaron Sorkin and Steve Zaillian, “Moneyball”
Best Original Screenplay: Woody Allen, “Midnight in Paris”
Best Foreign Language Film: “A Separation”
Best Cinematography: Janusz Kaminski, “War Horse”
Best Art Direction: “Hugo”
Best Editing: “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo”
Best Costume: “The Artist”
Best Score: “The Artist”
Best Song: “The Muppets,” “Life’s a Happy Song”
Best Visual Effects: “Rise of the Planet of the Apes”
Best Make-Up: “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2”
Best Sound: “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2”
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We have just discovered that comedian, writer, and impersonator James Davis (probably best known for his Barak Obama impersonations and his Baracka Flacka Flames video titled “Head of the State” that has taken over the internet and has been viewed over 1 million times, and is a spoof of the bombastic “Hard in Da Paint,” the hit by the Atlanta rapper Waka Flocka Flame ) has just joined the new show In Living Color as one of the writers for the show.
We hear that the new show that will air on the FOX network, with Keenen Ivory Wayans on board and will begin pre-production this week as all of the writers will assemble to begin working on the show. We will know who the rest of the writers and the cast will be shortly.
We will also have information on when the show will actually air as the show dates have moved several times.
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One of our sources who was present yesterday at the Winter 2012 Television Critics Association Press Tour, heard some interesting news from Showtime’s President Of Entertainment David Nevins. He stated that they were going to invest heavily in documentaries and that one of them was going to be a doc about the late great comedian Richard Pryor. He also stated that its in the works and that the contract and minor details are being worked out with the family.
After doing some of our own research, we discovered that the network is dealing with Jenifer Pryor, who, at the moment, has the rights to Pryor’s estate as she was married to the late comedian twice over the years and had won a legal battle with his children over the estate.
Where does all of this fit in with the film that is supposed to star Marlon Wayans? As of this writing, no one knows, but we do know that the Richard Pryor biopic has stalled momentaririly and is supposed to pick up some steam in April. We will see.
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We just discovered that Michael Anthony Snowden, whose credits include being a writer for In Living Color, The Keenen Ivory Wayans Show, White Chicks, Scary Movie 2 and South Park has officially agreed to launch a new sketch series with The Comedy Shaq Network on YouTube, produced by CodeBlack Entertainment (Laugh At My Pain)
We hear that the new series will be filmed in Orlando during the NBA All Star Weekend and that Codeblack Entertainment is in pre-production stages, planning to shoot 25 episodes.
No word yet on who will be starring in the new series.
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Several days ago we discovered a new animated project was launched on the website Funnyordie.com that featured comedic actor Kel Mitchell with a very funny premise. We heard that the new project was about President Barack Obama with an alter ego!
We heard that Producer Wayne Stamps (of Moesha, The Proud Family, Phil of the Future, Just Jordan, Love That Girl fame) is ready to rock the world of politics – and comedy – with a highly imaginative and piercingly poignant animated series, B-Rock The First Term. Created to focus on the current state of our great country and capture the once-in-a-lifetime historic events unfolding under the leadership of our nation’s first black President, Wayne’s new series of webisodes is a no-holds-barred rendering of history in the making.
Produced by BRP Productions, Wayne is working with Producer Tyree Dillihay (of Pink Panther & Pals, Read A Book fame), Director Lionel Ordaz (Pink Panther & Pals) and Composer Kurt Farquhar (Lincoln Heights, King of Queens, The Parkers, The Proud Family, Moesha) on a total of 12 3-minute episodes.
When Obama made history in 2008 by being elected the first black president in the history of America, he single-handedly took on the toughest job and the biggest responsibility in the world. But what most people, even the woman closest to President Obama, his wife Michelle, don’t know is that Barack has a secret… weapon. Beneath the relaxed, charismatic, mocha skin created from a collision of Kansas and Kenya, is an alter ego that, unless regulated by the mentholated, nicotine fix of a COOL cigarette, which secretly helps Barack keep his… well… Cool… explodes into the thugged out, street hardened, ass kickin’, sh#% talkin’, take no prisoners, gangsta ass American Patriot from the streets… of Hawaii… better known as B-Rock (voiced by Kel Mitchell). So while the country struggles to come to a second term with Barack Obama as the most powerful man on the planet, there is no doubt that few are ready for the iron fist bump of B-Rock.
B-Rock is the animated series that blows the roof off the White House and exposes the twisted behind-the-scenes shenanigans of the 44th President of the United States of America as he and his gangsta alter ego, B-Rock, encounter an endless array of nutty characters including: Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Michael Vick, Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter, Osama bin Laden, Sarah Palin, Sean Hannity, Tea Partiers, Clarence Thomas, Dick Cheney, Marian Robinson, Joe Biden, Illegal Immigrants, Michael Steele, William Taft, Jack Johnson, John McCain, and the most ominous figure of them all… Ronald Reagan.
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The LaffMobb group, which is spearheaded by Bob Sumner, Arthur Spivak and Daniel Paul has landed one of Hollywood’s newest urban comedy series titled The LaffMobb Presents, which is scheduled to be broadcast on the Showtime Network.
We hear that the new urban comedy one hour series will specialize in discovering the next up and coming talent in the urban comedy world as HBO’s Russell Simmons Presents Def Comedy Jam did when Sumner was producing and discovering the new and raw talent for them.
This new series will kick off with comedians Red Grant, Rudy Rush and Roz G up first with a stable of comedians to follow as Sumner has recruited talent from across the country to showcase them on this new series, and will showcase one hour specials for the selected comics.
Stay tuned here for more into on the new specials here!
Check out the links for the show times and the dates of Red Grant here;
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Check out the links for the show times and the dates of Rudy Rush here;
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Check out the links for the show times and the dates of Roz G here;
http://www.sho.com/site/
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For several months we have been reporting that comedian Tony Roberts was in the lab and about to drop his new one hour special, which would be a follow up to his Showtime special titled Wired.
Well, since that last special aired Roberts did a comedy tour for the relief effort in Haiti, filmed several music videos, and even is behind a bigger project that he won’t tell us about. But what we can say is that we got a sneak peek at what the special may look like and some behind- the-scenes things from his past year, so we decided to pass it along to you. Take a peek here;
We just discovered that comedians Earthquake and Rodney Perry are just about set to film their one hour specials with Codeblack Entertainment during the NBA All Star Weekend In Orlando next month at the Hard Rock Cafe.
We hear that the specials will be filmed on Friday February 24th, and both deals are just about finalized.
Codeblack Entertainment, the production company behind Kevin Hart’s Laugh At My Pain and DeRay Davis’ Power Play, plus the upcoming special from comedian Gary Owen, has several other specials planned with a couple of other comedians that we hear will all be launched in 2012. More on that soon.
We did discover that Codeblack plans on producing another Shaq All Star Comedy Jam as a taped special on Saturday with comedians Capone, Gary Owen, and Jay Pharaoh (of Saturday Night Live fame) already booked, with a couple of other comics to be booked this week.
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