Bill Hader has come a long way since his stint on Saturday Night Live, creating many popular characters and impersonations such as Stefon, Vincent Price and CNN’s Jack Cafferty. He is one of the highlights in such films as Adventureland, Knocked Up, Superbad and Pineapple Express, and so it is easy to see why author Mike Sacks interviewed him for his new book Poking A Dead Frog. In it, Hader talks about his career and he also lists 200 essential movies every comedy writer should see. Xo Jane recently published the list for those of us who haven’t had a chance to read the book yet. There are a ton of great recommendations and plenty I haven’t yet seen, but sadly my favourite comedy of all time isn’t mentioned. That would be Some Like It Hot. Still, it really is a great list with a mix of old and new.
- 8/28/2014
- by Ricky
- SoundOnSight
On Tuesday night's edition of Current TV's Joy Behar: Say Anything, residents of the New York area were treated to an interview with former Wnbc-4 anchor Sue Simmons, her first since leaving the local channel in June, after a 32-year stint alongside Chuck Scarborough at 11pm, and a 27-year run on Live At Five with the likes of current CNN crank Jack Cafferty. Displaying the kind of loose wit that characterized her career, Simmons joked that her replacement, 37 year-old Shiba Russell, is "an old 37."...
- 9/26/2012
- by Tommy Christopher
- Mediaite - TV
On Tuesday’s “Cafferty File,” CNN contributor Jack Cafferty said that likely Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney needs to embrace his Mormon faith and prepare an address, similar to one he gave in 2008, in order to clear up misconceptions about the religion that are still held by many Americans. Oddly, Cafferty he gave a similar presentation less than a year ago and came to the opposite conclusion – that a speech Romney gave in 2008 could be blamed for ending his presidential campaign in the last cycle.
- 4/17/2012
- by Noah Rothman
- Mediaite - TV
Anderson Cooper defended the "Today" show's fourth hour hosts during his "Ridiculist" segment on Friday by taking on what he called "Kathie Lee and Hoda haters."
Cooper said that like "his eyes," Kathie Lee Gifford and Hoda Kotb were considered national treasures. Cooper said he had never seen anything "unusual" during Gifford and Kotb's show, and wondered what "haters," like "The Soup's" Joel McHale and "Saturday Night Live's" Kristin Wiig, consistently mocked. He then ran a clip of Gifford and Kotb engaged in a feisty on-air pillow fight.
"What's so strange about that?" he asked. "You think Blitzer and Cafferty don't have pillow fights in 'The Situation Room'? If you only knew what went on in 'The Situation Room," Cooper said of his CNN colleagues Wolf Blitzer and Jack Cafferty.
Cooper warned "Kathie Lee and Hoda haters" to clean up their acts. "Pipe down, haters,...
Cooper said that like "his eyes," Kathie Lee Gifford and Hoda Kotb were considered national treasures. Cooper said he had never seen anything "unusual" during Gifford and Kotb's show, and wondered what "haters," like "The Soup's" Joel McHale and "Saturday Night Live's" Kristin Wiig, consistently mocked. He then ran a clip of Gifford and Kotb engaged in a feisty on-air pillow fight.
"What's so strange about that?" he asked. "You think Blitzer and Cafferty don't have pillow fights in 'The Situation Room'? If you only knew what went on in 'The Situation Room," Cooper said of his CNN colleagues Wolf Blitzer and Jack Cafferty.
Cooper warned "Kathie Lee and Hoda haters" to clean up their acts. "Pipe down, haters,...
- 3/19/2012
- by Rebecca Shapiro
- Aol TV.
Cranky CNN commentator Jack Cafferty lit into Republican superstars Sarah Palin (R-fnc), Gov. Rick Perry (R-tx), and Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-mn) on Wednesday's The Situation Room, comparing them to The Three Stooges (sans Shemp), calling Perry's instant burial of Mitt Romney in the polls "a little scary," and asking, "When it comes to presidential politics, why does America seem to be allergic to brains?" Tell us how you really feel, Jack.
- 8/25/2011
- by Tommy Christopher
- Mediaite - TV
Alec Baldwin has pledged to retire from acting at the "the 30 Rock wrap party," he recently told Playboy, in the very same interview where he dangled prospects of running against party turncoat and general Jewish Disappointment™ Joe Lieberman in the Connecticut Senate race. And that would be perfectly lovely: We'd like nothing more than to turn on CNN and see Baldwin in a Griswold diner surrounded by locals proudly wearing "I ♥ A Smart Alec" buttons, to whom he imparts nuggets of folksy, Donaghy-esque wisdom, like, "America, I would like to teach you something. I would like to be Michelle Pfeiffer to your angry black kid who learns that poetry is just another way to rap."...
- 7/9/2009
- Movieline
I was sorry to watch, live on CNN, Edward R. Murrow and Emmy Award-winning broadcaster and all around "Man of the People" Jack Cafferty spit on me on his broadcast today. After decrying the notion of "actors and comedians" running for public office, Cafferty stated, "Baldwin's credentials are questionable... but Franken is no slouch. He's Harvard educated." So Franken fits the mold for Cafferty because he went to Harvard? What other schools does Cafferty approve of as breeding grounds for office holders in America? What other professions does Cafferty believe should be excluded from holding office? The material I received from a contingent in Ohio was back in 1996, but Playboy omitted that fact in editing the piece. As for running for office in the future, who knows? I always felt that doing so was a way to serve one's country....
- 7/9/2009
- by Alec Baldwin
- Huffington Post
RELATED: CNN: China comments not meant to offend
The finger-pointing continued in the run-up to the Beijing Olympics on Saturday as hundreds of ethnic Chinese shouted "Liar" in front of CNN's Los Angeles office, demanding a "sincere apology" from political commentator Jack Cafferty for calling Chinese "goons and thugs."
"No Chinese Negative News" and "Certainly Not Neutral" read banners held high along with the flags of the U.S., China and Taiwan. A crowd of about 500 gathered by 10 a.m. on all four corners of a Sunset Boulevard intersection. Police said they were taken by surprise.
The protest came after recent events in Tibet, where anti-Chinese unrest broke out March 14. Since then, Chinese state-run media has called Nobel Peace Laureate the Dalai Lama a terrorist and accused Western media, which has been barred from open reporting in Tibet, of unbalanced coverage.
Lin Chen, who learned about the protest on popular Chinese-language Web portal Sina.com, left his home at 7 a.m. and drove to Los Angeles from San Diego. The native of Tianjin, the port city nearest Beijing, has worked for years as an engineer at Qualcomm.
The finger-pointing continued in the run-up to the Beijing Olympics on Saturday as hundreds of ethnic Chinese shouted "Liar" in front of CNN's Los Angeles office, demanding a "sincere apology" from political commentator Jack Cafferty for calling Chinese "goons and thugs."
"No Chinese Negative News" and "Certainly Not Neutral" read banners held high along with the flags of the U.S., China and Taiwan. A crowd of about 500 gathered by 10 a.m. on all four corners of a Sunset Boulevard intersection. Police said they were taken by surprise.
The protest came after recent events in Tibet, where anti-Chinese unrest broke out March 14. Since then, Chinese state-run media has called Nobel Peace Laureate the Dalai Lama a terrorist and accused Western media, which has been barred from open reporting in Tibet, of unbalanced coverage.
Lin Chen, who learned about the protest on popular Chinese-language Web portal Sina.com, left his home at 7 a.m. and drove to Los Angeles from San Diego. The native of Tianjin, the port city nearest Beijing, has worked for years as an engineer at Qualcomm.
- 4/19/2008
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
NEW YORK -- More changes are in the air for CNN's morning and primetime programming, with two American Morning co-hosts leaving the show and the channel naming new executive producers for Anderson Cooper 360 and Paula Zahn Now. Miles O'Brien, who had been co-anchoring an afternoon news program on the network, will join Soledad O'Brien as co-host of American Morning. O'Brien replaces Bill Hemmer, who will leave CNN on June 17. Jack Cafferty, a former local journalist who had been working on American Morning, shifts to Wolf Blitzer's new afternoon news program, The Situation Room. Meanwhile, CNN has tapped veteran news producers Victor Neufeld and David Doss to run some of its primetime programming. Neufeld, executive producer of CBS' The Early Show, who also has run ABC's "20/20" and PrimeTime Thursday, will be senior executive producer of Paula Zahn Now. Doss, who has been executive producer of PrimeTime Thursday and NBC Nightly News, will fill the same role on Paula Zahn Now.
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