Word: funnyman
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...FORECAST: A BLACK SPELL OF WEATHER Al Roker in a windbreaker is no longer the height of meteorological comedy. Funnyman LEWIS BLACK is upping the ante, as the Daily Show correspondent becomes the first celebrity to deliver the forecast on the Weather Channel this week. "I'll just be doing what I do best, yelling and screaming about something no one has any control over," says Black, who appears on the cable network's Evening Edition. Black notes that David Letterman started as a weatherman in Indiana. "Both jobs," he says, "are about making palatable the fact that the next...
...impact of a provocative title. So the actor and filmmaker who renamed himself ALBERT BROOKS can't be surprised that his next project is raising some eyebrows even before it's finished. In Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World, which Brooks wrote and is directing, the Broadcast News funnyman plays a comic sent abroad by the U.S. State Department to discover what makes Muslims laugh. Sony Pictures Entertainment passed on distributing the comedy, fearing the title was insensitive, and Brooks fans are debating its offensiveness online. Brooks is keeping mum about the film, due out next year from Warner...
...facebook fame, Haut says his glory days are over: “I see about 1,100 facebook group leavings in my future.” When this magazine went to press, his profile had slimmed down significantly. A photo of his, er, hindside remained, as did quotes from funnyman Douglas Adams. But all group memberships had disappeared...
...Moments like the one in 2003's Carmen where Vega, all sweat and bosom, dances for a group of soldiers, consolidated her reputation for sexually charged performances. Now she is trying to seduce the U.S. with her first Hollywood film, Spanglish, a romantic comedy in which she stars alongside funnyman Adam Sandler and Téa Leoni. It opens this week in Spain and next week in Britain...
While hordes of native-born celebs are encouraging Americans to vote, some immigrants of stature are just earning the right. Canadian-born funnyman JIM CARREY says he was motivated to become a U.S. citizen by the upcoming election. Awww ... should we tell Carrey and the other newly minted Yanks that California is not in play...