Tag: Comedy

NEW YORK - CBS has renewed the comedy 'How I Met Your Mother' for two more years, bringing a degree of certainty to at least one show in its Monday-night lineup.
The deal announced Monday between CBS and producer Twentieth Century Fox Television keeps the show on through the 2012-2013 season. The five central actors - Josh Radnor, Jason Segel, Alyson Hannigan, Neil Patrick Harris and Cobie Smulders - are each signed for two more years.
If the current troubles between CBS and

Larry King is getting his turn to do the talking. The veteran TV interviewer, who left his "Larry King Live" CNN show after 25 years in December, is launching a series of one man comedy shows in April about his life and work called "Larry King: Standing Up," producers said on Tuesday. King, 77, will give fans "a hilarious and insightful look" at his life both behind and in front of the cameras. The one-night-only shows will cover his life growing up as a street-smart kid in Brooklyn

BERLIN - An Austrian "Nazi satire" about a Jewish art dealer who dons the uniform of an SS officer to save himself and his mother from the Holocaust was surprisingly well-received Wednesday at the Berlin film festival.
"My Best Enemy" stars one of Germany's most popular actors, Moritz Bleibtreu, in a comedy that takes daring risks with the harrowing material but was applauded at a packed press screening. Director Wolfgang Murnberger, 50, said he was aware of walking a thin line

NEW YORK - Actor Josh Gad has created a new scripted comedy series that's going to be distributed exclusively online. In Gigi: Almost American, a foreigner played by Gad immigrates to the US with dreams of obtaining the American dream - and not letting his lack of street smarts, fashion sense, or mastery of English stand in his way.
The Borat-like series is from BBC Worldwide Productions (the company's first digital series, in fact), My Damn Channel and comedy troupe The Lost

The life of troubled actress Lindsay Lohan has inspired the plot of a new comedy movie starring Joan Collins and Lydia Hearst. "Dogs in Pocketbooks" is based on the star's colourful past which has seen her in and out of jail and rehab over the last few years. The actress will take on the lead role of a young star making her way in Hollywood, while Collins will play a high-powered agent in the picture which begins filming in February. Collins has said the script is a satire on the

'Tees Maar Khan' is more of a no-brainer than a rib tickling comedy as it lacks the effervescence and the charm of Farah Khan's two earlier flicks. In 'Tees Maar Khan', Akshay plays the role of Tabrez Mirza Khan aka Tees Maar Khan, a master con artist, whose art of stealing parodies Abhimanyu's war craft skills from Mahabharata.
In Tees Maar Khan, Tabrez learns to steal even before he is born because his mother, who is glued to crime flicks during her pregnancy.
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