Jamie Foxx may be going for his own personal EGOT.
The Grammy/Oscar-winner just got the green light on a sketch comedy show on Fox, starting midseason 2010-11. According to the press release, the show — tentatively called Jamie Foxx Project (that will probably change, eek) — will be a “fresh take on pop culture, including spoofs of movie trailers, commercials, TV shows, music videos and celebrities, with a diverse cast made up of the very best new young comedians on the scene today.” So basically, a smaller (and probably worse, which is pretty hard to do nowadays) version of Saturday Night Live.
Now wait a second, wasn’t there a comedy show in the ’90s starring Jamie Foxx? Google says yes. From 1996 to 2001, he starred in The Jamie Foxx Show — a sitcom on the WB about an aspiring musician in L.A. And if we remember correctly, that show was pretty bad, so if Foxx really wants to get the Emmy in that EGOT, to start, he better use is Grammy skills and write a better theme song — yuck.
Source: The Wrap
