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they both attended the “SNL” 50th anniversary special.Chase, 81, shared photos with many of the star-studded guests at the party, including Murray, 74. Chase wrapped his arm around Murray’s shoulder as they both smiled for the camera.The original “SNL” cast member also took photos with fellow alums Eddie Murphy, Adam Sandler, Amy Poehler, Rachel Dratch, Jon Lovitz, Martin Short and David Spade, as well as other celebs including Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds, Dave Chappelle, Steven Spielberg, Natasha Lyonne, Josh Gad and more.“Jay and I went The Crane Club downtown to join the celebrations for @chrisrock’s 60th Birthday, hosted by @guyoseary,” Chase wrote, referring to his wife, Jayni Chase.

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Conan O’Brien To Receive Mark Twain Prize For American Humor; Netflix To Air Ceremony

Conan O’Brien is the latest comedian to be feted at the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor.

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Sir Lenny Henry says he is 'jealous' of ex-wife Dawn French for a heart-breaking reason

In his latest Channel 4 passion project, Sir Lenny Henry delves into the craft of comedy, interviewing four iconic British comics on the joys and challenges of tickling the public's funny bone.Throughout this four-part series, 'Legends of Comedy,' we'll see sit-downs with Sally Phillips from 'Smack the Pony' and Romesh Ranganathan from 'The Ranganation'. Lenny confesses that exploring their comedic journeys has rekindled his desire to return to stand-up after a 15-year hiatus.The 66 year old told us, "It made me go, ‘Actually, I really fancy just getting up and doing stand up,’" adding, "It’s made me have lots of thoughts about it.

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How Quincy Jones cheated death and attended his own memorial service 50 years ago

Quincy Jones “Beat It” — as in his own odds of survival — long before he produced that “Thriller” classic for Michael Jackson.Fifty years before his death at 91 on Sunday, the legendary producer was given a 1% chance of living after he suffered a brain aneurysm in 1974.“It was scary,” Jones told GQ in 2018. “Like somebody blew my brains out.

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‘Brewster’s Millions: Christmas’ Sets BET+ Premiere As Production Wraps

EXCLUSIVE: The BET+ Original film Brewster’s Millions: Christmas is set to premiere on December 5, it has been revealed as production wraps.

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Justin Simien’s ‘Hollywood Black’ Is a Fascinating Reexamination of Cinema History Through a Black Lens: TV Review

Aramide Tinubu Diversity in Hollywood exists in cycles of booms and busts. There are moments of abundance when Black people are particularly visible on the big and small screens, with the Blaxploitation era in the 1970s and the reign of Black auteurs in the 1990s as prime examples of this.

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‘Group Therapy’ Review: A Candid Look At Mental Health Through The Lens Of Stand-Up Comedians – Tribeca Festival

Neil Berkley’s Group Therapy is a poignant, hilarious, and moving exploration of the intersections between comedy, grief, and mental illness. Starring a stellar cast of comedians, including Neil Patrick Harris, Gary Gulman, Nicole Byer, Mike Birbiglia, London Hughes, Tig Notaro, and Atsuko Okatsuka, the film delves into the ways these performers use humor as a coping mechanism and a form of catharsis.

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‘Abbott Elementary’ Actor Lisa Ann Walter On Playing A “Tough Cookie” And “Telling The Truth” Her Entire Career

For the last three decades, the multi-hyphenate Lisa Ann Walter, who began her career in stand-up comedy, made her mark as a character actor in films such as Bruce Almighty, Eddie and Shall We Dance? However, for most millennials, Walter is best known for playing Chessy, the beloved nanny in Nancy Meyer’s The Parent Trap. These days, nearly a quarter of a century later, Walter has emerged in the spotlight on ABC’s award-winning mockumentary Abbott Elementary, where she plays the Italian-American spitfire Melissa Schemmenti, a second and third-grade teacher at an underfunded Philadelphia public school. Here, she discusses the joys of playing the elementary school teacher and her own educational upbringing.

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‘Foxy Brown’, AKA Pam Grier, Will See Stage And TV Adaptations Of Her Works

Pam Grier was a guest this week on The Jennifer Hudson Show, and revealed there are big plans afoot for her legendary 1974 Blaxploitation classic, Foxy Brown.

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Kendrick Lamar’s Drake diss track ‘Euphoria’ features sample of reversed Richard Pryor line from ‘The Wiz’

Kendrick Lamar has included a sample of a reversed Richard Pryor line from ‘The Wiz’ on his new Drake diss track ‘Euphoria‘.The six-minute-long diss track sees Lamar call the ‘Hotline Bling’ a “scam artist”, “master manipulator” and question his abilities as a father. It has been revealed that the jumbled audio in the intro of the song samples dialogue from the 1978 film The Wiz.Following its release yesterday (April 30), fans clipped the short sample and played the line backwards to find the first line: “eurt si em tuoba yas yeht gnihtyrevE” happens to be a line from the iconic film in which Richard Pryor – who portrayed The Wiz – says: “Everything they say about me is true.”the reversed audio at the beginning of euphoria played backwards pic.twitter.com/9aNxxTxs57— Dissect Podcast (@dissectpodcast) April 30, 2024Pryor’s line in the film is taken from a scene in which his character is exposed as Herman Smith, a washed-up politician from Atlantic City.

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Billy Gardell Talks Weight Loss Surgery He Received & Current Struggles with Eating

Billy Gardell is opening up about his healthy journey and the current struggles he has with eating.

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Pam Grier, Village Roadshow Developing Project Based on Her Memoir, ‘Foxy: My Life in Three Acts’ (EXCLUSIVE)

Angelique Jackson Film icon Pam Grier has teamed with Village Roadshow Pictures to develop a project based on her bestselling 2010 memoir, “Foxy: My Life in Three Acts.” Known as the queen of 1970s Blaxploitation classics like “Coffy” and “Foxy Brown,” plus Quentin Tarantino’s Oscar-nominated film “Jackie Brown,” Grier is enjoying her latest act thanks to movies like 2023’s “Cinnamon.” That film kicked off her relationship with Village Roadshow Pictures, which produced the title under the company’s Black Noir Cinema banner for Tubi. “Foxy: My Life in Three Acts” details Grier’s legendary screen career; her relationships with Richard Pryor, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Freddie Prinze, among others; her experience as a Black female star in an era with rampant racism and sexism; and her battle with stage-four cervical cancer, diagnosed in 1988, when she was told she had 18 months to live.

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Independent Artist Group Signs Actor & Comedian Eddie Griffin

EXCLUSIVE: Veteran actor and comedian Eddie Griffin has signed with Independent Artist Group across the board, Deadline has learned.

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Patricia Arquette: I was ‘terrified’ of my ‘Lost Highway’ nude scene, but David Lynch had my back

Patricia Arquette built a career by showing up in eclectic, high-profile 1990s flicks like “Ed Wood,” “Bringing Out the Dead” and “Holy Matrimony.”But there was one film that the Oscar winner, 55, appears to have found a little bit too weird — the mysterious 1997 thriller “Lost Highway.”Arquette recently opened up about her experience on the cult-fave David Lynch project — and why filming an iconic nude scene was actually a “terrifying” experience, Variety reported.Arquette portrayed the dual role of Renee Madison/Alice Wakefield in the drama, alongside an ensemble cast that consisted of Bill Pullman, Balthazar Getty, Gary Busey, Giovanni Ribisi and Richard Pryor.During an appearance at the Series Mania Festival in France on Thursday, Arquette noted that at the time, she was “so extremely modest.”“I would take a bath in the dark,” she said. “The scene when my character had to strip was terrifying to me.”The “Boyhood” star added that the cast and crew would say degrading things to her when she had to peel off her clothes.

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Kenya Barris’ Richard Pryor Biopic Is a 10-Episode Series; New ‘Wizard of Oz’ Is Set in Inglewood and ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ Remake Has POC Lead: ‘I’m Still a Believer in IP’

Kenya Barris joined the Variety Studio presented by Audible at the Sundance Film Festival and provided some new updates on three of his most high-profile new projects. It was announced back in 2020 that Barris was set to direct a biopic on Richard Pryor, one of the most influential comedians of all time. The project remains in development, only Barris now confirmed that it’s actually a television series.

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Marc Maron On Why He Won’t Stop Talking About Antisemitism

Marc Maron As a Jew, you are taught early on that you are different and people will hate you for it and maybe kill you. They’ve done it since the beginning of Jews. We watched Holocaust documentaries at Hebrew school to make sure we understood.

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‘The Wiz’ Revival Casts Newcomer Nichelle Lewis For Broadway & National Tour

A newcomer will be easing on down the road next year.

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Mark Normand Sets Netflix Comedy Debut With ‘Soup to Nuts’ Special (EXCLUSIVE)

Charna Flam Comedian Mark Normand has announced his first hourlong special for Netflix, “Soup to Nuts,” which will hit the streaming site on July 25. Since he was a kid, Normand knew he was interested in comedy. But once his mother doled out VHS tapes of the Marx Brothers, it became an integral part of his life. After watching it, he soon discovered comedians, films, shows and specials from the past, all due to his mother’s suggestion. “I thought, ‘This is great. It’s all jokes. This is hilarious. Still holds up.’ Then I went into a deep dive, where you find Jerry Seinfeld, George Carlin, Richard Pryor and Eddie Murphy,” Normand told Variety. “And then it was my whole world.”

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‘No Hard Feelings’ Review: Jennifer Lawrence Leans Into Hard R Comedy

What starts out looking like it wants to be a gross-out comedy in the Porky’s vein eventually, and more gratifyingly, heads closer to The Graduate territory in No Hard Feelings.

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Broadway-Bound ‘The Wiz’ Finds Its Lion, Tinman And Scarecrow

The Broadway-bound revival of The Wiz, which will launch a national tour in Baltimore this fall, has cast Kyle Ramar Freeman (A Strange Loop) as the Lion, Phillip Johnson Richardson (Apple+’s Sharper) as the Tinman, and former The Voice contestant Avery Wilson as the Scarecrow.

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Wanda Sykes slams Dave Chappelle for ‘hurtful and damaging’ trans jokes

the comic’s polarizing comments in his Grammy-winning Netflix stand-up special “The Closer.”In the 2021 special, Chappelle said he “agrees” that “gender is a fact”, as he discussed how J.K. Rowling had been branded a “TERF” (Trans-exclusionary radical feminist).When asked if her new Netflix special in which she defended the transgender community “balanced out” Chappelle’s set, Sykes told Variety, “Um, I don’t know about balancing it out, because I think what he said was so hurtful and damaging to the trans community.“So yeah, the scale is still tipped, I will say, in their favor. But I know I wanted to say something, because so much has been said on that platform.

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