On Dave Holstein's Kidding, production designer Maxwell Orgell faced a classic artistic challenge, crafting sets for a show-within-a-show. Following the downward spiral of a Mr. Rogers type, the dark comedy centered on Mr. Pickles' Puppet Time, a nostalgia-inducing kids' program with touches of the surreal.
Conceived…
Paramount continued the rollout of stars with Jim Carrey appearing after the studio showed off the first trailer for its November 8 release Sonic the Hedgehog.
Carrey arrived eating popcorn sloppily and dropping it on stage before throwing it at the audience. He then hugged Par’s domestic distribution boss Kyle…
“Alte kakers rule!” said The Kominsky Method‘s Michael Douglas after winning the 2019 Golden Globe Award for best actor in a TV musical or comedy, a double-duty reference to both his role as the aging acting coach Sandy Kominsky and to his 102-year-old Kirk Douglas, name-checked in the tonight’s first acceptance…
Jim Carrey is using his artistry and political platform on Twitter to not only alert people to “the demon that’s controlling us” he said at Vulture Festival in Los Angeles on Sunday, but also he wants people to know he “would love” to see Beto O’Rourke and Kamala Harris in the presidential race, although he has no…
“For one night let’s make America great Britain again,” said BAFTA -LA CEO Chantal Rickards in coming closest to any political statement in the opening to Friday night’s annual Britannia Awards, put on by the
British Academy of Arts & Sciences , Los Angeles branch. That is until Jim Carrey was awarded the Charlie…
It's no joke and not much of a surprise, but Kidding is bringing its dark and puppeted humor for a second season on Showtime.
"Kidding has established itself as one of the most endearing and inventive shows on television," declared the premium cabler's President of Programming, Gary Levine today of the Jim Carrey and…
Jim Carrey will receive the Charlie Chaplin Britannia Award for Excellence in Comedy and Game of Thrones star Emilia Clarke the Britannia Award for British Artist of the Year at BAFTA Los Angeles’ annual Britannia Awards gala October 26 at the Beverly Hilton.
The pair join fellow honorees Steve McQueen, Cate…
UPDATE with videoJim Carrey wore a new pair of Nike sneakers and Bill Maher implored Al Franken to rejoin the political game, as HBO’s Real Time With Bill Maher capped yet another very bad week for President Donald Trump.
“Check this out,” Carrey said, joining the episode as the mid-point guest and propping his…
2ND UPDATE, 6:50 PM: Never one to mince words, Steve Bannon has fired back in his battle with The New Yorker. After being scheduled as a headliner of the October 5-7 event, the former White House Chief Strategist was disinvited after a slew of people including Judd Apatow, Jim Carrey and John Mulaney said they…
Last year Kenan Thompson officially became the longest-running Saturday Night Livecast member, with 15 seasons under his belt. And, when he started on the show in 2003, he was the show's youngest performer—a situation that seems worthy of some sort of SNL careerist medal.
Instead, this year he got his first Emmy nom…
There’s no question about it: What worked on screen in regards to comedy a few years ago, isn’t clicking anymore as the genre makes its way to the exits for a place on streaming or cable.
A majority of major studio comedies over the last two years, with the exception of Girls Trip, Bad Moms, and Sausage Party, haven’t…
“There’s a spark of greatness inside each and every one of us. In you, in me, there’s a lovely light, that can never go out.”
So begins the new trailer for Showtime’s Kidding released today at TCA. The premium cabler also unveiled the official posters for the half-hour comedy series starring Jim Carrey.
In his first…
