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You know it's a damn good episode of Saturday Night Live when there's so much worthy material, that even some truly funny sketches can't even make it past the dress rehearsals. Case in point: Zach Galifianakis' stellar episode from this weekend, which had top-notch sketches like "Game of Game of Thrones", the fake New Balance commercial, and the brilliant "Darrell's House".
NBC has since released the "Kanish" sketch, which didn't make it to air on Saturday night. While a little too long and tapping into a very specific sense of humor for people who get a kick out of dead-on Judd Hirsch imitations, fictitious '70s detective shows, and poorly-timed freeze frames (freeze!), it's pretty universally accepted that anything Galifianakis and Bill Hader do – especially together – is comedy gold. Plus, there's some sweet hair, a near-break from Taram Killam, and hilariously-named fake episode titles like "Junkie See, Junkie Do" and "Dope Re Mi."
Watch the cut segment here:
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Pierce Brosnan hasn't stepped into James Bond's shoes for over a decade, but you wouldn't know it when you meet him. The Irish actor — who turns 60 this month, but doesn't seem to age — seems to be carrying on the suave legacy of Bond. Especially when it comes to his affinity and appreciation for women.
Hollywood.com caught up with Brosnan to discuss his latest film Love Is All You Need and when it came to the subject of his co-star, Danish actress Trine Dyrholm (whom Brosnan says has "the Meryl Streep touch" to her craft), he put it simply: "I've been blessed with all the leading ladies I've been with, they've all been rather gorgeous and beautiful and I love women." When it came to the subject of his Oscar-winning director Susanne Bier, he put it simply: "I've worked with some great directors from Barbra Streisand to Susanne Bier to when I did Remington Steele, there were some fine lady directors on that show. I love working with women. I love women. There's just an ease and a grace." Brosnan. Pierce Brosnan.
But, it wasn't just his fondness for working with talented females like Dyrholm and Bier that drew him to a project like Love Is All You Need. The film a glossy but heartfelt romantic drama about a hairdresser named Ida (played by the vivacious Dyrholm who gets naked, literally and metaphorically), a cancer survivor whose husband has been cheating on her, and Philip (Brosnan, in what Bier describes as "one of his most touching performances"), a hard-working businessman and widower. Philip and Ida meet at their respective children's nuptials at a picturesque French villa and the two begin fall in love. "It goes right up there on the shelf with, dare I say, Mamma Mia," Brosnan says of the film, which taps into similar theme of finding yourself — and, of course, love —at any age.
Another one of the film's emotional cores — dealing with a devastating loss — is one that hits especially close for Brosnan. In 1991, Brosnan lost his first wife Cassandra Harris to ovarian cancer. They had one son together, Sean, as well as her children from a previous marriage Charlotte and Christopher. (Brosnan remarried in 2001 to his wife Keely Shaye Smith, with whom he has two sons with, Dylan and Paris). "All of that life pain that I went through — somewhat publicly, somewhat privately — is in the past but I can certainly identify and draw upon it," he says of playing a part like Love Is All You Need's Philip, a man who is still dealing with his pain.
"This character and this movie and this script found me at the right time in my life to be able to sit still and explore my own tragedies, my own pain, my own loss, what it's like to be a single parent," Brosnan continues. "In the hands of Susanne Bier, you surrender to that and allow yourself to go there. It just made sense. Her style of direction is very quiet and specific, strongly so at times. But there's great liberation in there because of the cinematic style that she uses. There were many emblems within the story: fatherhood, being a widower, being a single parent, a man of business, being alone, being middle-aged, dealing with time, time past, time present, time future."
And time, it seems, has since been kind to Brosnan. Not just in terms of his rugged good looks, but finding peace and comfort within himself and his career. "I painted myself into a corner sometimes I feel with the style of performance I'd given or the kind of actor I was trying to create when I came to America with Remington Steele," Brosnan admits. "As you get older there's a loosening of the ties to the ego and the posturing of who you are and how you behave. There's an ease within my own being now and there's a confidence, simple as that really, with performing... there's a great joy in being an older actor now. You have to adapt to your age and your years. It's nothing but humble gratitude of having come down the road so far."
Then again, it's hard not to be humbled with gratitude when you have labor of love projects like the big screen adaptation of Nick Hornby's A Long Way Down (in which he stars alongside Aaron Paul, Toni Collette, and Imogen Poots, whom he refers to as "The Quartet...we were joined at the hip") and, of course, Love Is All You Need. Love, being the key word.
"It all melded together from day one," Brosnan recalls, adding, "[my cast and director] embraced me with such a warmth and generosity and I, in return, did the same and we just hit the ground running. The experience of filming on a day-to-day basis was nothing but joy. It's criminal how much fun we had. It was a magical summer." Who knew Bond was such a softie?
Love Is All You Need opens in limited release on May 3.
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Yep, it's official: everyone gets a kick out of Zach Galifianakis. Comedy nerds, moviegoers, Bored to Death enthusiasts (yeah, they're out there) and even Fred Armisen. The Saturday Night Live cast member got the chance to work with Galifianakis again this week, as The Hangover Part III star returned to Studio 8H to host the show for the second time.
During a backstage chat with NBCUniversalDirect.com, Armisen talks about Galifianakis' return to the show. "He's a friend of the show and we always have a really great time with him," he says. Check out the rest of the video — made exclusive to Hollywood.com — in which the SNL and Portlandia star chats about former cast member Kristen Wiig's upcoming hosting stint ("She's a family member"), why he thinks Seth Meyers would make for a great documentary subject, and explains in obvious terms how SNL works. What a wise guy.
Watch it here and tune into SNL this weekend at...well, you know how it works:
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In a perfect world, there'd be an entire television show dedicated to Haley Joel Osment's imitation of Rob McElhenney's character Mac on It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. But until that day happens, Will Ferrell has, thankfully, realized that the Sixth Sense star has some serious comedic chops and has cast him in his upcoming IFC miniseries The Spoils of Babylon. Osment's rep has confirmed the casting news to Hollywood.com.
Osment will star alongside Ferrell (who created the show with his frequent collaborator Adam McKay), Kristen Wiig, and Tobey Maguire in the six-part "adaptation" of the epic saga about the lives of a wealthy oil family the Morehouses over the span of centuries. Osment, now 25-years-old (if you want to let that sink in) will play Wiig's troubled son in the project.
The Spoils of Babylon, which is written by SNL's Andrew Steele and directed Casa de mi Padre's Matt Piedmont, is slated to air on IFC later this year.
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This weekend's big release Iron Man 3 — which is already pulling in insane numbers from around the globe ($307.7 million in 42 international territories to date) — is poised to do pretty darn well here in the good ol' U.S. of A.'s box office. Even more good news for Tony Stark: the third installment in the wildly popular Marvel series is playing just as well to critics is it is to excited fans.
But there's one man who isn't excited about watching Robert Downey, Jr. suit up (and Gwyneth Paltrow strip down) for the blockbuster action comedy: one Stephen T. Colbert. During a segment on Thursday night's episode of The Colbert Report, the host/true American hero argued that movies like Iron Man 3 and the upcoming Superman flick Man of Steel are actually ruining this great country.
Colbert's beef with Iron Man 3 stems from the Marvel's financial partnership with Beijing's DMG Entertainment. Turns out, in the Chinese version of the film, there's not only cameos from Chinese stars like Fan Bingbing (all of which made Colbert "angry-gry"), but the country also changed Ben Kinglsey's villainous character name from Mandarin to Man Daren. Which made Colbert beg the all-important question: "Why is Iron Man fighting the husband from Bewitched?"
Now, Colbert still has some time until Man of Steel comes out, but despite looking like a certain handsome news reporter with great power, he still had to air his grievances about the film. Well, namely that they are comparing this Superman to President Barack Obama and that they cast a posh Brit like Henry Cavill rather than a true-blooded American. Plus, as Colbert points out, "Do you Brits even need capes? You can just fly around with your magic umbrellas."
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UPDATE: We called it! Reports are indicating that Steve Carell will, in fact, be back for The Office finale. (NBC had no comment for Hollywood.com regarding the latest news).
There's only one appropriate response to the news that Steve Carell won't be stepping back into Michael Scott's George Forman grill shoes one last time for The Office series finale on May 16 and it's this:
I mean, the unfairness and implausibility of this is beyond words. It's incalculable that Dunder Mifflin's former —and let's face, one and only true — boss won't make a one last appearance as the series wraps up. During a conference call on Wednesday, The Office executive producer Greg Daniels once again shot down remaining hope when he told reporters that, "I think Steve felt, and I agree, that the 'Goodbye, Michael' episode was his goodbye and he didn't want to overshadow the ending that all the other characters deserved."
Yes, "Goodbye, Michael" was an excellent episode (maybe the last truly great one of the series, considering The Office never regained its footing after Carell exited), but I don't for one second believe that Michael Scott wouldn't want to see these people again. Though he left without really saying goodbye to his employees because it was just too damn hard for him, I can't imagine he's not a blissfully happy person with Holly who wouldn't want to visit his friends back in Scranton. And even Daniels' quote has a key phrase: "the other characters" and their endings. But Michael Scott is a part of all those other characters' journeys.
Here's the other thing: the writers wouldn't even need Michael to come back to Dunder Mifflin office. Why not have Jim or Pam call him to catch up about their respective families (I like to imagine that Michael and Holly have created offspring by now) or, to truly go for laughs, have Toby email him about an overlooked HR-related issue? I refuse to believe that a two-minute cameo would be too much for Carell. Michael Scott was the real heart of The Office and not having him be part of the show's end would make about as much as sense as the plot of Threat Level: Midnight.
Carell owes it to the show and the show owes it to its faithful viewers. It doesn't even matter how they do bring him back, just that they do it. A returning star's presence makes a huge impact on a series finale: imagine the Cheers finale without Shelley Long or Friday Night Lights without Scott Porter? Hell, even George Clooney returned to ER down the line. (Not the finale, but still! He came back to the show that propelled him to super stardom!)
But, hey, not all hope is lost, despite Daniels' statement. Just the other day David Letterman grilled former Office star and scribe Mindy Kaling (who will be on the series finale, as well as B.J. Novak, among others) on The Late Show about whether or not Carell would be back on, and she was slightly less convincing that he won't be. "I am not certain," she hesitantly answered Letterman when asked about whether or not he'd be there. Kaling then claimed she was too drunk at the final taping to notice who was there and that she'd signed a strict confidentiality agreement with NBC. So, there you have it.
Simply put, I just don't want to imagine a world where we don't see Michael Scott one last time. It's too hard.
That's what she said.
Additional reporting by Michael Arbeiter.
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"Ruh-roh!" Those were the only words a spent, post-coital Jess (Zooey Deschanel) could muster after she finally got together with her roomfriend Nick (Jake Johnson) on last night's amazing, hilarious, and damn sexy episode of New Girl. Fans, on the other hand, were crying "Yes!," "OMG!," and "More please!" in the blissful afterglow of Nick and Jess' long-building hookup. (Seriously, the better part of Season 2 has been one extended foreplay session between these two).
From the looks on their sweaty faces, those two had an awfully good time in bed. But they're hardly the first TV couple to have a hot session between the sheets. From some seriously scorching sex scenes between Kate and Sawyer on Lost to Carrie and Brody on Homeland, these moments left viewers all hot and bothered. Check out our gallery of the 17 Most Sizzling TV Sex Scenes, which includes some DVR-melters from the likes of Game of Thrones, True Blood, The L Word, Mad Men, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Is it hot in here... or just them?
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Zach Galifianakis is an SNL five-timer in the making. (Just three more hosting gigs to go!) A best-of DVD compilation waiting to happen. (Which could really just have this sketch on repeat for an hour). His first time as host on Saturday Night Live back in 2011 had one of the most hilarious opening monologues of the past decade, if not in the show's history. Okay, in case you couldn't tell, we're pretty damn excited that Galifianakis is returning to host SNL this weekend with musical guests Of Monsters and Men. But, I mean, look at that face. You're laughing already, aren't you?
In the clip, the The Hangover Part III star heads to the roof of 30 Rock alongside cast member Jason Sudeikis for a promo that takes place right next to a tree — not between two ferns, sadly — but Galifianakis thinks they are shooting a porno, not a promo (hence the robe). In fact, a lot of the video is of Galifianakis getting things wrong, like calling him Will Bithers instead of Bill Withers (turns out, other than the word 'butt munch,' the actor can't tell his w's from his b's, and vice versa) and spending an obscene amount of money of nail art of Justin Bieber and Taylor Lautner.
Watch the very funny two-and-a-half minute clip (imagine how good 90 minutes of this will be) here, because as Sudeikis puts it, "a little public shaming never hurt anyone."
Galifianakis' episode of SNL airs on Saturday, May 4 at 11:30 PM on NBC. However, his comedy special Live at the Purple Onion is on Netflix instant watch and you should be watching that right now.
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More prestigious than a Soapie, but a little less prestigious than a Primetime Emmy, the Daytime Emmys will hold its 40th annual ceremony this year. The nominations for the 2013 Daytime Emmy Awards were announced on Wednesday morning and perennial favorite The Young and the Restless leads the pack with 23 nominations, including Outstanding Drama Series (helping CBS become the most-nominated network this year, with 50 nods total), while The Ellen DeGeneres Show has the most of any talk show with 10 nominations, including Outstanding Talk Show. (Ellen will dance off against The View, The Talk, and Live! With Michael and Kelly).
Outstanding Talk Show Host nominees include Anderson Cooper (for his since departed show Anderson Live), Steve Harvey, Ricki Lake, Dr. Mehmet Oz and Rachael Ray, while Billy Eichner will have something to shout about: the Billy on the Street host is nominated for Outstanding Game Show Host. He'll face off against Ben Bailey (Cash Cab), Wayne Brady (Let's Make a Deal), Steve Harvey (Family Feud), and Alex Trebek (Jeopardy).
The morning talk show wars will continue in the Outstanding Morning Program, as rivals Today (which includes both Ann Curry and Matt Lauer as nominees, so maybe it should also be in the Outstanding Drama Series category) and Good Morning America will face off against CBS Sunday Morning. Speaking of headline-grabbing nominees, an underage sex scandal controversy didn't stop Sesame Street puppeteer Kevin Clash from being nominated in the Outstanding Performer in a Children's Series for his work as Elmo. (Clash resigned from the iconic PBS program — which is nominated in the Outstanding Pre-School Children's Series category — back in November in the wake of the allegations).
For the full list of nominees, including categories like Outstanding Culinary Program and Outstanding Legal/Courtroom Program, here. The 2013 Daytime Emmy Awards will be held on June 16 at the Beverly Hilton and broadcast by HLN.
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Flashback episodes and first-time episodes (as in, when two characters finally give in to mounting tension and have sex for the first time, making 'shippers the world over rejoice) are not exactly virgin territory for sitcoms. While New Girl has done the flashback thing time and time again (often with mixed results), they most certainly haven't had Nick and Jess do it before.
That's right, it finally happened: after weeks and weeks of agonizing teasing, flirting, and longing glaces on confusing first dates, Nick and Jess had sex. And much like any first time, expectations were sky high and left you with feelings of confusion, exhilaration, and — let's be honest with ourselves — a little bit of concerned regret. Was it too soon? But I'm getting ahead of myself. Let's slow down and start from the beginning, baby.
The aptly titled "Virgins" found the gang hanging out where they spend far too much time for an attractive group of early thirty-somethings: the bathroom. Jess was helping Cece shave her underarms (I don't know if this is like the pillow fight urban legend, but this does not happen), Winston was talking about getting the chance to hook up with Daisy again (the guy needs something to do on the show, why not have it be a beautiful woman), and Nick was creeping in the stall listening in (like he apparently does more than anyone had known).
After Jess got a text from some schmo named Teddy who wanted to meet her for drinks, Nick went into a tailspin of jealousy after she revealed the mystery man was actually the one who took her flower. ("He stole a flower from you and you wanna have drinks from you.... Oh, from your wonderful secret garden." Aw, Nick). When Cece butted in and claimed that Jess had the most embarrassing story about losing one's virginity, well, the rest of the gang had to chime in with their own tales of first-time fornication.
While Jess claimed up and down that hers was not only the most embarrassing, but also had the intrigue of murder, her house mates had far worse stories and even more illegal activities. Here, I'll rank the gang's virginity stories from most humiliating to least based on their tales.
Winston: Oh, good god, poor Winnie. This guy can't catch a break. He's nothing more than filler on the show (though he has had some consistently hilarious one-liners over the past few weeks, including last night's masterfully executed and accurate cry of "Oregon sucks!") and now he's the guy with the worst story about losing the V-card. For years Winston was convinced that he wooed the ladies of the night that Nick's dad Walt Miller (Dennis Farina, back from the dead) brought the boys during a visit to New York City. Well, one lady in particular: Mysteria. Apparently that name wasn't a dead enough giveaway that she was a prostitute, and neither was the fact that she laughed in his face when he asked her what she does for a living. Then again, young Winston legitimately didn't know how Titanic was going to end. Even when Nick honored his father's memory by waiting until he was dead to tell Winston the truth (the flashback of their father-son chat was not only sweet, but imperative to the Nick-Jess story line, but more on that in a bit) the guy just didn't want to believe the truth.
Schmidt: In any other group of friends, Schmidt's story of being 200 pounds overweight and using so much lube that he slipped off his bunk bed and on to his roommate would win, but Schmidt clearly isn't humiliated by the story. I mean, why else would he be trying to replicate the escapade with his college girlfriend, Elizabeth? (Sorry Cece, I'm really pulling for these two to wind up together. Schmidt is most himself around her, because she knew him before he was Schmidt). Still, the sequence was a physical comedy gem, between a tripping-on-shrooms Nick "magnetically stuck" to the wall and a Fat "The Sex Haver" Schmidt trying in vain to get up from the floor covered in lube.
Jess: Nice try, Jessica Day. While your story may have started out with your nerdy prom date stabbing himself in the hand with steak knives because he couldn't get you out of your dress and moved to you trying to lose your virginity in a plastic castle on a playground (with a murdered guy on a bench mere feet away) to a handsome fellow (played by Dylan O'Brien) who couldn't get it up and figured out he was probably gay, it still ended with you losing your virginity to a handsome firefighter named — you guessed it — Teddy. Jess' road to losing her virginity at 22 was paved with sewing and social mishaps, including singing Lisa Loeb's "Stay" far too much, but hers ultimately turned out to be pretty great.
Nick: We didn't get a flashback of Nick's story (we did get a taste of Nerd Nick and Hippie Nick, however, in Winston and Schmidt's stories) he did sweetly reveal to Jess that he lost his to a gal named Allison Daniels on a towel in the woods. He cried and she left her bra on. "It was nice," he reflected. Sounds pretty status quo, but by no means terrible.
Cece: Of course. Of course Cece had the best losing her virginity story. She lost it on prom night...but not to Study Hall Steve or Cool Car Johnny, but Mick Jagger. "Game changer!" as Schmidt exclaimed, only to wrongly later exclaim, "Beatlemania!"
But even though she had the best story, Cece wasn't exempt from the more emotionally draining and exhausting land mine that is the sex life of a grown-up. She still hasn't had sex with her groom-to-be, Schmidt was still trying out all his tricks (namely German sex device The Arch Duke, which requires 16 batteries), and Winston still got a little too turned on by Titanic. We might grow up, but deep down we're all still insecure, nervous teenagers.
I mean, just look at Nick and Jess: two grown-ups clearly attracted to each other who continue to dance around each other's feelings and hope the other will make the first move. It's amazing neither of them have passed each other notes under their doors from across the hall. Sure, technically Nick became a man when he had sex with Allison in those woods so many years ago, but he didn't truly become an adult when he took his father's advice to stop over-thinking and take charge of a moment. Which is exactly what he did when he ran after Jess in the elevator, took her in his arms like a damn man, and carried her to the bedroom. "Let's not think about it," he growled to a clearly into-it Jess. (The girl loves her take-charge men).
I will always love Walking Human Disaster Nick (the guy who doesn't know that tuxedos and suits are different things) but I think I love Sexy Smoldering Nick a little bit more. That guy can stay. Well done, Jake Johnson, you have officially set the bar far too high for reasonable expectations.
Back in the bedroom, the two friends looked at each other and then the bed and then back at each other again, knowing this was the point of no return. While we only saw a post-coitus Nick and Jess blissfully going through a range of emotions from surprise to delight to anxiousness right back to delight, all the episodes leading up to this moment have been arguably sexier and you can pretty much just let your imagination run wild as to how hot their session was.
While we'll have to wait to see how these two deal with things post-hookup (I mean, they could barely handle a kiss or a dinner date without freaking out) from the look of things, they seem pretty damn happy about this inevitable rendezvous. He smiled, she smiled, he laughed, she laughed (and snuck in an adorable "Ruh-roh" for good measure) and the episode faded to black. Keeping in line with the theme of virginity, all this did was leave fans wanting more. What a tease!
Here now are the other best lines and moments from "Virgins":
- "Oh, you need help? Where's your Women's Lib now?!" - Schmidt to Jess- "Who cares about the theme, what were you wearing?" - A worked-up Nick to Jess, about her prom- Jess Day in the year 2000: major credit to the New Girl hair and wardrobe team for making the already-youthful Zooey Deschanel actually look like a rosy-cheeked high schooler.- Nick's wrong, desperate claim that girls don't like guys who play guitar. - "David Foster Wallace, where is the sex?" - An annoyed Schmidt to Jess. - Even though College Hippie Nick is as about as lame as College Hippie Ted on HIMYM, I give him the slight edge over Nerdy High School Nick as I too was/still am "a Daver." Plus, he tried to reason with the shroom-induced troll he hallucinated by telling it, "I don't want any trouble; I think you're a remarkable creature." - "She was a nurse! Her nurse hat was in her purse!" - Winston, still in denial about Mysteria. - Fat Schmidt unknowingly hitting on Cece of the Past with lines like "Do you like DVDs?" and "Does this bar have cookies?" - Jess describing her date's erectile dysfunction as a "wind sock on a windless day." - "Let's not think about it." Yeah, I know I mentioned it already, but it deserves a second mention. And bonus points for the use of the very awesome "Anything Could Happen" by Ellie Goulding. Perfection.
So, what did you think of "Virgins"? Is this the beginning or the end of Nick and Jess, and in turn New Girl? I'd say I can't wait to find out (and I think it's the beginning, as this show is the best comedy on television and will only continue to hold that title), but Taylor Swift appears on the Season 2 finale in two weeks. For now, I'll just bask in this Nick and Jess afterglow.
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