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Comcast is angry over a slew of Rob Lowe characters that include 'Scrawny Arms Rob Lowe', 'Painfully Awkward Rob Lowe', 'Super Creepy Rob Lowe', 'Far Less Attractive Rob Lowe' and 'Meathead Rob Lowe'. According to Comcast, DirectTV's claims of 99% signal reliability, 1080p HD programming, more sports and better picture and sound quality in the Lowe commercials are completely false. Due to this they recommend DirectTV pulls the ads. Sadly the 'Better Business Bureau' agrees. Read More »
Are you a fan of science? How about comedian Jimmy Pardo? How about Pardo's podcast Never Not Funny? How about CONAN? Well, if you answered yes to them all, we've got great news for you: the famed comedian is gearing up to host a new game show for the Science Channel titled Race to Escape. Much like the now-famed Escape the Room and others like it, which locks a group of people in a room and gives them an hour to get out using several clues inside the room, Pardo's new Science series will pin two teams of strangers against one another. All of whom are trapped in a room and forced to try and get out using hidden clues. Read More »
While the world was busy bashing Jon Stewart's soon-to-be Daily Show replacement Trevor Noah, the current host of the Comedy Central vehicle was busy trying to figure out the right words for viewers and non-viewers alike. And on last night's episode, he seemed to figure it out. Stewart kicked off the episode immediately detailing the "kerfuffle on Twitter" that Noah found himself in the middle of, largely due to some "offensive" and "sexist" tweets he dished out to the public in the past. Read More »
Comedian Tig Notaro is hitting the road, folks. Well… she already did alongside stand up Jon Dore, but the special is now airing on Showtime. Well… it will air on Showtime this coming April 17. Set as a documentary called Knock Knock, It’s Tig Notaro, the Showtime special follows the two comedians as they perform in fans’ homes and backyards. Notaro, of course, is the host of the popular podcast Professor Blastoff, and made headlines some time ago when she was diagnosed with cancer and released her oh, so personal special Tig Notaro LIVE – which detailed exactly what she was going through during her trying time. Read More »
Following word that comedian Ricky Gervais and actor Eric Bana were teaming up for a comedy film title Special Correspondents, it's now being reported that the film will be picked up by the fine folks over at Netflix. The online streaming service is of course no stranger to Gervais, as they are the home for his latest series Derek, which aired its finale special back in Dec. 2014. The Hollywood Reporter notes that Special Correspondents will premiere sometime next year on Netflix. The film follows Gervais as a radio journalist who goes so far as to fake the news stories he reports. Read More »
Netflix is stepping up their game in the comedy department, readers. After releasing the uber successful Tina Fey, Robert Carlock-led Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt – starring the one and only Ellie Kemper – word has it that the streaming service has hired Unviersal's VP of Comedy Andrew Weil to oversee their comedy just under Jane Wiseman. Deadline is reporting on the new Netflix hire, stating that Weil was a mere 27-years-old when he was brought aboard Uni TV. He came to the team back in 2011 and help fine-tune Fox's hit Brooklyn Nine-Nine. Before that, he was a main go-to over at BermanBraun. Read More »
Well, this was very, very (very, very) awkward. Unless, of course, you're like this Jeopardy contestant, Tom, and didn't realize that the legal age of consent in the United States is NOT 12 in girls and 14 in boys. In this below clip of a recent Jeopardy episode, host Alex Trebek is pretty (understandably) stunned when he's given the worst answer possible in the history of his game show. Trebek gave the clue, "In common law, the age of this, signaling adulthood, is presumed to be 14 in boys & 12 in girls." And while the correct answer was puberty, this guy Tom happened to think it was, well, the age of consent. Read More »
The Entourage movie is gearing up to come out this summer, folks. And while we can certainly plan for a number of A-list celebrity cameos, it appears there's one guy creator Doug Ellin really wanted but couldn't get: President Barack Obama. In the below video, Kevin Connolly – who played Eric "E" Murphy in the series and the movie – was approached by none other than TMZ. It's here that he divulges that Ellin was pulling for the Prez. Of course, being that he's a little busy, it just didn't happen. Read More »
If you checked into Saturday Night Live this past weekend with host Michael Keaton then you undoubtedly saw a randomly bizarre parody video for the Church of Neurotology. But if you caught HBO's Going Clear documentary, which details the happenings within L. Ron Hubbard's famed Church of Scientology, then you know it wasn't so random. In the parody video, the iconic sketch show mocked Scientology's oh, so cheesy jingle and accompanying video from decades ago, which was featured in the HBO doc. Read More »
Oh, Easter –– the time of coloring eggs, hunting for eggs (which better have money in them!), eating chocolate (and chocolate money!), and sitting on the lap of a gigantic, and normally terrifying, Easter Bunny. But did you know that's not all of the traditions this oh, so chocolatey holiday holds? Well, don't worry; MStars News is here to fill you into some of the more unknown Easter traditions from around the world that you probably never even heard of: things blessing food and wet t-shirt contests... kind of. Read More »
