Tag: Comedy

Jennifer Aniston to play homosexual president in upcoming White House comedy

LOS ANGELES: Jennifer Aniston will portray the first female - and first gay - US president in a comedy film for Netflix, the streaming...

Rohit Shetty entitled Govinda as one of the finest comedy actors

Filmmaker Rohit Shetty says comedy is the most difficult genre to pull as an actor, and praised actor Govinda for becoming a master in it. Rohit,...

Russia threatens cinemas for screening banned Stalin film

MOSCOW: The Russian Culture Ministry has warned cinemas in the country that they will face legal ramifications if they continue to show The Death...

Shahrukh and Salman have an easy understanding and chemistry: Ali Abbas...

Bollywood director Ali Abbas Zafar, the man behind some of Bollywood's most successful films, including Tiger Zinda Hai, Sultan and Gunday said that he would...

Eddie Izzard to star in Australian comedy film ‘The Call Back’

LONDON: British actor and comedian Eddie Izzard has signed on to star in The Call Back, the feature debut of producer turned writer/director Marion Pilowsky, reports...

Shehzad Ghias mixes comedy and chicken to create magic

Shaikh. Chicken. Action. Nandos Lahore was host to a different kind of evening on Monday as comedian Shehzad Ghias Shaikh dived into some much-needed localised...

Saad Haroon, first runner up in Funniest Person in the World...

Pakistani Comedian Saad Haroon was the first runner up with  59,213 votes in the Funniest Person in the World competition won by  stand-up comic from...

Pakistani comedian Saad Haroon among 10 semifinalists for World’s Funniest Person...

  Pakistani standup comedian Saad Haroon has made it to the list of 10 semifinalists for the World's Funniest Person competition being organised by the...

Sandra Bullock strips off for comedy scene

Sandra Bullock welcomed US comedienne Chelsea Handler to her new talk show studio on Monday by stripping off for a comedy shower scene. The...

Comedy play on Romeo Juliet continues at PNCA

The week-long show of comedy play featuring parody of romantic hit Romeo Juliet is continued here at Pakistan National Council of the Arts (PNCA)...

Get set for comedy, thrillers in 2012

So, we are into 2012. Get ready for a dose of Bollywood comedy and thrillers with an interesting mix of movies like ‘Players’, ‘Agneepath’,...

Yahoo! launches online comedy channel

Yahoo! is adding a comedy channel to its online line-up, kicking it off with a "CrazyStupidPolitics" show starring Bill Maher live in Silicon Valley...

‘Tower Heist’: Comedy of comeuppance

Forty-five minutes or so into ‘Tower Heist’ the question arises: Is this movie with the title of purest generica — was ‘Stealing Money’ taken?...

Australian PM subject of new TV comedy

Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard is to be the subject of a television comedy parodying her life, and said she expects it to be...

Russian theatre ‘bans Putin comedy’

A Russian theatre has banned an irreverent new play about the tandem of President Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin that also features...

Eddie Murphy to receive Comedy Icon award

LOS ANGELES - Eddie Murphy will receive the Comedy Icon Award at the first annual The Comedy Awards, scheduled to air Sunday, April 10 on multiple MTV Networks channels. The honor will be given yearly to a modern icon, an individual who has contributed to comedy and whose impact has changed the landscape and inspired future generations of entertainers.
Murphy will be recognized for his stand-up, sketch, film and TV work. Among the presenters and attendees at The Comedy Awards

Barrymore to direct romantic comedy

Drew Barrymore plans to direct her second movie, 'How to Be Single,' a romantic comedy based on a 2008 novel of the same name.
'Single' explores the loves lives and break-ups of a group of New Yorkers over the course of ten years. Marc Silverstein and Abby Kohn wrote the adaptation of Liz Tuccillo's book.
The New Line project will be in the vein of the studio's successful multi-story pictures such as 'He's Just Not That Into You' and 'Valentine's Day.' ('Single' actually