How do you follow up an Emmy-winning hit like “Dick in a Box”? With a tribute to mothers everywhere, just in time for Mother’s Day.
Kudos to Susan Sarandon and Patricia Clarkson for signing on to play the “loved” mothers.
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Jim Gaffigan’s new stand-up special, “King Baby,” premieres on Comedy Central on March 29th. Will there be a routine to rival his famous Hot Pockets riff? Well, if this video is any indication, one of those in a lifetime is probably enough for Gaffigan…
Welcome to a new feature here on Premium Hollywood…and, believe me, it’s one I’ve been wanting to premiere for quite some time. I’m someone who enjoys trying new foods and new beverages, and I’ve often thought it would be fun to write a column which gave me the opportunity to write about the experience. Unfortunately, I’m forever buried in DVDs that need to be reviewed. Finally, I had an epiphany: why don’t I figure out a way to combine the two?
And, thus, “Concession Stand” was born.
The beverage: Mountain Dew Voltage.
Last year, over a quarter million votes helped Voltage win the so-called “DEWmocracy” election, with the taste, name and color of the product all developed by the customers themselves…well, y’know, with a little help from the folks at PepsiCo. (What, like they’re gonna give the yokels all the power?) As the bottle proudly trumpets, it’s your standard Dew brew, but charged with raspberry citrus flavor and ginseng. The color of the beverage is a slightly disconcerting shade of blue, but the raspberry mixes with the traditional Dew flavor rather well, making the taste not so far removed from a Sweet Tart. If it’s icy cold, it goes down fast and smooth…which is good, since it’s so sweet that drinking it slowly may result in you taking awhile to finish the bottle, but caffeine fiends with a sweet tooth will have no problem chugging it down to score the inevitable rush.
When I was pitched the opportunity to check out Voltage, they sent me three bottles of the stuff, so I scoured my to-be-reviewed pile to see if I had three DVDs featuring the same person in some role or other. Lo and behold, I did…and that person’s name was Lea Thompson.
A few hundred movie fans got a sneak peek at 22 minutes the upcoming Sacha Baron Cohen comedy “Bruno” at the South by Southwest film festival. Baron Cohen’s Bruno character is a “flamboyantly gay Austrian fashion correspondent hoping to make it big in Hollywood,” and he’s just as crazy and provocative as his now-famous Borat character.
In the first bit of footage, Bruno has decided to achieve celebrity by adopting a black baby, and wants to feature the child in an avant-garde performance art project. (“Ich bin pushing the limits,” he explains in broken German.) He interviews several mothers and fathers to determine whether their children would be suitable to play guest stars, and his questions grow increasingly absurd: Are they afraid of stuffed animals? Reptiles? Hornets? Would they be OK with being dropped off a four-story building, or willing to have liposuction? Regardless of the request, the parents categorically say “yes.”
Part two, which was shot just north of Dallas, finds Bruno appearing on a Jerry Springer-style talk show in leather pants, looking for Mr. Right. Members of the predominantly black studio audience are appalled by his in-your-face homosexuality, and they get even angrier when he brings out his adopted baby and shows them a self-consciously artsy photograph of the child posing as Jesus on a cross. Although it appears there are a few plants in the crowd to ask the right questions, the majority of them seem genuinely disgusted as they storm out.
Finally, Bruno decides to reinvent himself by going hetero and changing his name to “Straight Dave.” Dressed like Ted Nugent in camouflage, long hair and a scruffy beard, he stages a mixed-martial arts contest, which was shot last summer in Arkansas. When Bruno’s ex-boyfriend crawls into the ring and the two start making out, stripping and rubbing all over each other, spectators in the conservative crowd holler, make anti-gay slurs and throw plastic cups of beer at them. They end up storming out, too.
I think he has another smash hit on his hands.
Bullz-Eye was fortunate enough to score an opportunity to speak with Patrick Warburton on the occasion of his CBS series, “Rules of Engagement,” returning to its 9:30 timeslot within the network’s Monday night comedy line-up.
We did not, however, limit ourselves to discussing that particular show.
In addition to conversations about Warburton’s roles on “NewsRadio,” “The Venture Brothers,” in “Get Smart” and “The Emperor’s New Groove,” and, of course, as the title character of the live-action TV version of “The Tick,” we also asked him about his long-running role on “Family Guy” as Joe, the paraplegic cop whose wife, Bonnie, finally gave birth.
“You know, my mother actually thinks my soul is in peril for being on that show, and after I watched last Sunday’s episode, I thought, ‘Geez, maybe she’s right. Joe’s getting his diaper changed…and I am going to hell for being on this show.’ You know my rationalization is that it is just absurd, crazy humor, and…what the fuck. It is a deplorable show. It’s horrible.”
Well, it’s all a matter of opinion.
Check out the rest of Bullz-Eye’s chat with Patrick Warburton by clicking here…or, of course, by clicking the big graphic below:
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