Another week, and another edition of the Humor Mill News Break with our host comedian Stevie Mack! Check out this past week’s news that includes Chris Tucker, Cocoa Brown, Tony Rock, JB Smoove, and more!
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Late last week we told you about the interview that we had with comedian Tony Rock, where he told us EXCLUSIVELY that he had a project with Jamie Foxx. We reported that the project was going to be on Showtime, but as you will see we stand corrected. The project was Showtime at The Apollo which Jamie Foxx is producing, and Tony Rock will be the featured Host of the show. Can’t wait to see that, as Rock follows in the footsteps of Steve Harvey and Mo’Nique to name a few.
Also Rock tells us about a couple of the tours that he is on and where we can catch up with the rising star!
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Here is this week’s edition of our movie reviews, and this week we take a look at Happy Feet Two! Our host Taylor Holder tells you her thoughts about the film!
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As we reported several weeks ago, comedian Cedric The Entertainer is the star of a new spin off series that TV Land is developing of the network’s hit comedy Hot in Cleveland that’ll star the comedian as a minister. Cedric will play the role of a preacher who just moves to St. Louis to make peace with his wild past. But his challenge will be made public as he dukes it out with his old ways in front of his congregation and family.
We also reported that comedic actress Niecy Nash may have a new permanent role in the show. We heard that she’ll play the wife of “Reverend Boyce”.
We now discovered that comedian Cocoa Brown has landed in the new spin off series! No word as of yet of what her new character will be, but we will let you know as soon as we find out! Stay tuned!
Production for the new show is set to begin Dec. 2nd.
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We just discovered actor Forest Whitaker has just landed in a new film, as he will play the role of “Will” in the new feature film titled Pawn to be directed by David A. Armstrong, who has worked on more than 40 films as a Cinematographer. For those of you unfamiliar with the work, David was the Cinematographer for the first 6 Saw films.
The cast currently include Ray Liotta as “Lt. Boone”, Michael Chiklis as “Derrick”, Wentworth Miller as “Nick” , Common “Porter”, Tamer Hassan as “Billy”, and Jonathan Bennett as “Aaron”.
The film’s Cinematographer is Keith Dunkerly who just filmed Janusz Kaminski’s 2nd feature film.
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As we told you last week, we had a chance to interview comedian JB Smoove at the Comedy Store, and here it is. In this interview our new host Juliannah Richmond interviews Smoove as he opened up about his upcoming stint as the new host of the new season of Comedy Central’s Russell Simmons Presents, and he also spoke about his new campaign to bring back Larry David and a new season of Curb Your Enthusiasm, which would be the ninth one on HBO. The question is will he be successful? Find out about that plus Smoove’s new ventures with a new website that he is building around his character Leon Black, his new stint on the NFL, a new stand up special coming, and more!
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Comedic actors Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele present “Key & Peele,” an original sketch-comedy show coming to Comedy Central in 2012.
In this new series these fresh, relevant comedic actor-writers, used to being on the outside looking in, will examine life in a provocative and irreverent way, through a combination of filmed sketches and live stage segments. Whether it’s satirizing the President, spoofing Nazis, or ordering up some soul food, “Key & Peele” will showcase their chemistry, camaraderie and unique point of view, born from their shared background and experiences growing up biracial in a not quite post-racial world.
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Key & Peele
Quite simply, the answer is yes. Word has been going around Hollywood for years that Ice Cube and his production partner Matt Alverez (of Cube Vision) have been trying to land Chris Tucker for the new film with Mike Epps. So far, according to the video interview captured by TMZ, it looks like Tucker is on board. Leave a comment below!
According to Deadline, actor Michael K. Williams (of The Wire fame and Boardwalk Empire) just landed in a new role in a new film with Dwayne Johnson in a new film titled Snitch. This new role, and his current schedule made it unable for him to land that role in Dejango Unchained that everyone reported that he was in. Here is the report from Deadline;
UPDATE: Insiders on Django Unchained said that the talks with Michael Kenneth Williams just won’t work out because of his schedule on Boardwalk Empire. They are scrapping that role completely.
EXCLUSIVE: Michael Kenneth Williams, best known for his work drug dealer-robber Omar in The Wire and bootlegger Chalky White in Boardwalk Empire, will play a supporting role in Snitch, and is looking at another shot at joining Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained. In the Ric Roman Waugh-directed Snitch, he’ll play a narcotics kingpin with a short temper who becomes involved with a man (Dwayne Johnson) who is turning DEA snitch to get his son a reduced prison stretch. The film shoots early next month. Django Unchained is also in the works. Williams was under consideration by Tarantino to play the title role, but Jamie Foxx got that job. Now, Williams’ reps at The Collective are trying to work out dates with the third season of HBO’s Boardwalk Empire so that Williams can play another role in the film that Tarantino is working out creatively. I’m told that it’s likely he’ll play muscle for ranch owner Calvin Candie (Leonardo DiCaprio).
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We just heard the TLC network has commenced production on its new docu-series starring actress/comedienne Niecy Nash, her husband and their new life together as a blended family. We hear that Shed Media US is producing the yet-to-be-titled half-hour series with eight episodes set to premiere in early 2012. If you recall, in June, Nash married her husband Jay Tucker as 5 million viewers watched the two-hour special Niecy Nash’s Wedding Bash on TLC.
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