Almost two weeks ago, we reported that comedians Chris Rock and Dave Chappelle were both on stage in New York at the club The Comedy Cellar working out, and because they both were there discussions came up about doing a comedy show together.
Well, our sources have now told us that the comedy show that was looking like a reality might not happen as soon as we believed. The reasons are quite simply time will not permit for both of the comedic stars to make it a possibility soon. BUT we should state that both comedians did discuss the comedy tour and both loved the idea of being able to make it happen, but they both are not able to make it happen now. What we can say for certain is that if they are able to make if work in their schedules in 2012 then it will happen, but as of now, its not moving forward as we would hope.
Oh well. Let’s see what happens as this story continues to develop.
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We just discovered from our sources that Foxxhole Radio founded by Jamie Foxx in partnership with Sirius Radio may close it’s doors for good, despite printed reports stating otherwise.
Our sources have disclosed to us that Foxxhole has told its staff that they were going on hiatus until January and that they would resume its programming then. The fact of the matter is not only is the station currently playing reruns of its programming, we discovered that the entire staff and it’s programming probably will not return at all.
As of this writing, we have discovered that since Jamie Foxx has severed his ties with his former manager Marcus King (who coincidentally is in charge of programming at Foxxhole Radio along with Johnny Mack), Foxx has no plans of bringing it back. In fact, since the fall out, Foxx has yet to appear on the Foxxhole as he normally would. We even discovered that Foxx is currently thinking about bringing in his new management team which is headed by Rick Yorn to take a look at the station and probably take over The Foxxhole. But that decision has not been made, and so far, the plan is to let the station go.
Finally, Foxxhole Radio normally is off for about three weeks and never has the station gone on hiatus for this long. Our sources say that the doors closing for good should be official soon if the new management doesn’t move in. But since the station is going on hiatus this early in the season for th holiday break, our sources claim that the station coming back is hardly likely.
This story is containing to develop, and we will keep you in the loop.
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Last week we were at the Comedy Store, and we conducted an interview with comedian and actor JB Smoove (of HBO’s Curb Your Enthusiasm fame) that you will see this upcoming week where he drops the news that TV Guide released today, and that news is about his new NBC Sitcom that he joined titled Bent.
Here is the news article that we were alerted today via email from TV Guide in an exclusive from them;
Brothers & Sisters alum Matt Letscher and Curb Your Enthusiasm‘s J.B. Smoove have joined the NBC midseason comedy, Bent, TVGuide.com has learned exclusively.
From Scrubs writer Tad Quill, Bent follows Alex (Amanda Peet), a high-strung single mother who hires a laid-back womanizing construction worker, Pete (David Walton), to remodel her home. The romantic comedy began production this week.
Letscher, 41, will play the recurring role of Ben, the confident and wry doctor boyfriend of Alex. However, their romance is quickly put to the test when Alex hires Pete to renovate her house. Smoove, 46, joins the cast as Clem, the electrician in Pete’s oddball construction crew.
Aside from romancing Kitty Walker on Brothers & Sisters, Letscher is known for his roles on The New Adventures of Old Christine and Good Morning, Miami. Smoove has appeared on Curb Your Enthusiasm as Larry’s wise-cracking roommate Leon Black since Season 6.
Stay tuned for our upcoming interview this week!
Here is our weekly edition of The Humor Mill News Break featuring veteran comedian Stevie Mack, as he gives you the latest in all of our comedy and entertainment news. This week’s edition Stevie gives you the latest news from the updated Oscars revolving door of the Host and Producer to the new show that Jamie Foxx and Tony Rock are about to do for Showtime! Check out the video!
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We just discovered that comedian Hope Flood, who many of you know from her stint as a radio show host in Dallas and as a comic on Martin Lawrence Presents, Def Comedy Jam, Comic View, (to just to name a few) has launched the first ever Females In Comedy Convention. The first ever convention of it’s kind will take place in Los Angeles in April 2012. The convention will include several workshops, seminars, luncheons, panel discussions, nightly showcases, comic celebrity basketball game, and more and will be celebrity studded.
If you are interested in finding out more info about the Females In Comedy Convention check out the website on December 1st when it goes live at http://www.femalesincomedyconvention.com. In the meantime you can email info@femalesincomedyconvention.com to answer any questions you may have.
We just discovered that actor Laurence Fishburne, who has been looking around for several projects to develop, is now returing back to television as a producer! We had been hearing for years that while he was on the hit show CSI that he wanted to be more involved in the development side. Here is the story from Deadline;
EXCLUSIVE: Laurence Fishburne, who headlined CBS’ CSI for the past two-and-a-half seasons, is returning to TV series, this time as a producer. Fishburne’s Cinema Gypsy Prods. has signed a two-year first-look development deal with Fox Television Studios for cable projects. Former Paramount Television SVP current programming Tom Russo has been tapped as Head of Television for Cinema Gypsy Prods. He will shepherd the development of cable series under the deal with FtvS and will serve a producer on Cinema Gypsy’s projects. Fishburne and his longtime manager/production partner Helen Sugland will executive produce. “I’m looking forward to expanding our production efforts in television and partnering with Fox Television Studios,” Fishburne said. FtvS president David Madden was far more effusive in his comments about the deal with the Matrix actor. “Laurence Fishburne has won the Tony Award, the Emmy Award, and is an Academy Award nominee, as well as being universally recognized as one of the finest actors working today,” Madden said. “He did sterling work on CSI, and we know he has still much more to offer to the TV series world. We are proud to be in business with Laurence and look forward to bringing more blazing Fishburne-esque performances to the screen. And for God’s sake, he’s Morpheus!” Fishburne’s Cinema Gypsy Prods. first got into TV development 3 years ago when the company signed a first-look deal with CBS TV Studios, which produces CSI. The company recently co-produced the HBO movie Thurgood starring Fishburne, which earned him an Emmy nomination. On the acting side, Paradigm-repped Fishburne most recently co-starred in Contagion and will next be seen in the Hallmark Hall of Fame TV movie Have A Little Faith and Man Of Steel. FtvS’s portfolio of cable series includes USA’s Burn Notice and White Collar, AMC’s The Killing and A&E’s The Glades.
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It’s really official; Eddie Murphy is out and Billy Crystal is in as the new host of the Oscars. How short the Eddie Murphy Oscar host reign was…There were some thoughts that Murphy was going to possibly come back (even though we knew that wasn’t going to happen) when producer Brian Grazer was hired to replace Brett Ratner as the show’s new producer. For those of you who don’t know, Grazer was an Executive Producer of Tower Heist and has an excellent relationship with Murphy. Anyway, In the whirlwind news yesterday of the who would be host of the Oscars once Grazer was hired, speculation was rampant of who the new host would be and some actually thought Murphy was coming back. As we learned last night, that was not to be the case.
Here is the official press release from the Academy;
Producers Brian Grazer and Don Mischer have announced that Billy Crystal will serve as host for the 84th Academy Awards.
“I’m thrilled to welcome Billy back to the Oscar® stage,” said Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences President Tom Sherak. “He’s a comic legend and Oscar icon, and it feels good to have him back where he belongs.”
Commented Grazer: “Like so many others, I’ve been eager to see Billy host again. It’s very gratifying that he agreed to do it with Don and me at the helm.”
Said Mischer: “With Billy, we’re moving forward with one of the greatest hosts in Oscar history. His return to the Oscars is, in a sense, a celebration.”
This will mark Crystal’s ninth time as host. Only Bob Hope has hosted more Academy Awards presentations, with 19 ceremonies between 1940 and 1978. Crystal last hosted the Academy Awards in 2004.
“Some of the best moments of my career have happened on the Oscar stage. I am thrilled to be back there. Actually, I am doing this so that the young woman in my pharmacy will stop asking me my name when I pick up my prescriptions,” said Crystal.
Academy Awards for outstanding film achievements of 2011 will be presented on Sunday, February 26, 2012, at the Kodak Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center®, and televised live by the ABC Television Network. The Oscar presentation also will be televised live in more than 200
countries worldwide.
Last night at the Comedy Store in Los Angeles, we were able to interview comedian Tony Rock who dropped a couple of exclusive news bits on us. Rock told us that he is hosting the new Jamie Foxx Sketch comedy show that is currently in pre-production for Showtime.
If you haven’t heard, Jamie Foxx exited the Affion Crockett show which premiered on FOX titled In The Flow (but he did stay on as Executive Producer) to launch his own sketch comedy show. Our sources told us that his exit from that show was due to creative differences, and that he had an opportunity to have a show on cable which according to our sources, was too good for Foxx to pass up. Foxx immediately went in to production on the show because he would be filming his new film Dejango Unchained around Thanksgiving.
Anyway, because of this, the ramp up happened quickly and Rock told us that Foxx saw him perform and loved him and bought him on board for the new show.
We will have more on this interview in it’s entirety next week! Stay tuned!
NEW YORK, November 9, 2011 — COMEDY CENTRAL, a division of Viacom Media Networks announced today that the second annual “The Comedy Awards” will return to New York City. The multi-platform, annual event dedicated to honoring and celebrating the world of comedy, will be taped at New York City’s Hammerstein Ballroom on Saturday, April 28, 2012 and will premiere on COMEDY CENTRAL on Sunday, May 6, 2012. Don Mischer Productions has signed on again to produce the show with COMEDY CENTRAL and Casey Patterson, EVP, event production, Viacom Entertainment Group. Last year’s inaugural event was attended by the biggest names in comedy including David Letterman, Eddie Murphy, Bill Murray, Tina Fey, Alec Baldwin, Will Ferrell, Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, Louis CK, Kristen Wiig, Ty Burrell, among many other comedy elite.
“As much as I’d like to brag that we rig this in favor of our friends, the truth is probably more gratifying to the winners – they are chosen by a massive voting body of their comedy peers,” said Kent Alterman, head of original programming and production, COMEDY CENTRAL.
“With the combination of the comedic talent, the city of New York and how successfully the show came together earlier this year, we couldn’t be more excited about producing ‘The Comedy Awards’ again in 2012,” said Don Mischer.
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The Oscars will now have a new host as comedian Eddie Murphy has officially stepped down as the host, following the footsteps of Producer Brett Ratner. Ratner officially stepped down as Oscar producer after several dumb public statements that he originally made while on the Howard Stern radio show promoting Tower Heist, statement that we care not to print. (We are sure that you read them elsewhere) Ratner, when hired, convinced the Academy that he wanted to stir things up and bring in a comedian to host the Oscars, and he did; he landed comedic actor Eddie Murphy. He wanted to bring in a younger audience and stir things up. Now with his resignation and the show seeking a new producer to replace Ratner, speculation is that the show may go back to it’s old ways. But who knows?
Anyway, as we stated yesterday, this really should not come to anyone as a big surprise as Ratner who was the one who bought Murphy in, was giving him everything he needed to make a smooth transition to coming back on stage after a 25 year absence. Yes, its not the same thing as a comedy performance, but there are still jokes told and a stage presence that comes with the gig, hence the reason of the Oscars hiring several comics to host.
We hear from our sources that with the new producers coming in Murphy was not comfortable with the new direction or the conversations of who the Producers were planning on bringing in to replace Ratner. Most importantly is the writers and we hear there was no comfortable place there also.
We have more information coming. This story continues to develop!