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Netflix has unveiled the cast roaster for Home Team, a family comedy loosely inspired by New Orleans Saints coach Sean Payton's experiences during his year-long suspension from the league. It was previously reported that Kevin James would play Payton in the film, which hails from Adam Sandler’s Happy Madison and James…

Pilar Schneider, who appeared in several of her son Rob Schneider’s films, died Monday of natural causes at her Pacifica, Calif. home. She was 91. A longtime teacher in the Pacifica school district, Schneider acted in commercials and appeared in some of Rob Schneider’s films, including Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo, The…

Adam Sandler’s Happy Madison keeps churning out product for Netflix like there is no tomorrow (and some days, the way the world is going right now, there may not be). With its latest, a new comedy called The Wrong Missy, it has taken a somewhat familiar premise to wring some genuine laughs and nice Hawaiian locations…

Funnyman Rob Schneider has been elected to the SAG-AFTRA national board representing San Francisco and northern California, defeating incumbent Katheryn Howell and three other challengers. Howell, however, was re-elected president of the local. Schneider's election is a victory for Membership First, the union's…

Actor Rob Schneider, a former Saturday Night Live cast member, has taken issue with the left-leaning politics of his former television home, saying its overt approach to satire makes things “less interesting.” Speaking to the New York Daily News, Schneider said SNL is less funny because it wears its political heart on…

Seth Rogen got much of Comedy Twitter to rally to his defense today when he alerted them to a strange indignity: He had been blocked by Rob Schneider. “What the f*ck?” read Rogen’s initial tweet. He then followed with a zoomed-in screen grab from Schneider’s account and show Real Rob, showing him sitting with his wife…

Netflix has unveiled the trailer for Real Rob, its new comedy series starring Rob Schneider and his real-life family as they navigate the high roads and the low roads of Hollywood (hint: they often intersect). The trailer shows that the eight-episode scripted comedy also produced and directed by Schneider will also…

Tricon Films & Television will kick off international sales of Rob Schneider's scripted comedy series Real Rob! at the upcoming Mip-TV market in Cannes. The eight-episode independently produced series is co-written by Schneider with his wife, Mexican writer-producer Patricia Azarcoya Schneider, and his friend…

EXCLUSIVE: Rob Schneider is teaming up with comedian pal Max Amini to direct the LA-based stand up’s hourlong special Max Amini: Authentically Absurd. Amini is set to perform two live shows this month at the Wallis Annenberg Theater in Beverly Hills, with filming slated to take place during the sold-out Saturday July…

Rob Schneider is returning to series television, this time on his own terms. In a endeavor he hopes “shakes up Hollywood”, the actor-comedian is self-financing and starring in an eight-episode independently produced comedy series he co-wrote with his wife, Mexican writer-producer Patricia Azarcoya Schneider, who will…

Rob Schneider has signed with New Wave Entertainment for management. Saturday Night Live alum Schneider most recently toplined his own comedy series Rob on CBS. His feature credits include Deuce Bigelow, Hot Chick and Grown Ups. Schneider continues to be represented by Gersh and attorney Howard Fishman, and he will…

EXCLUSIVE: The remaking of Rob Schneider as comic leading man continues! After scoring in the CBS sitcom Rob, Schneider’s teaming with Terminator and The Walking Dead producer Gale Anne Hurd on the feature comedy vehicle Teach Me to Dance. He’ll star and she’ll produce and the film has a script by Patricia Azarcoya…