Hello, friends. Kurt here. Boy, oh boy. Where to start? In this very space, I've already been called out for snobbery for sticking it to lowbrow comedy and the people who love it, so I'm gonna try to keep the snark to a minimum. But I definitely stopped dead in my tracks when I walked into the gym this week and saw that the movie du jour was Blue Collar Comedy Tour Rides Again, the straight-to-video sequel to Blue Collar Comedy Tour: The Movie, a feature presentation of below-the-Mason-Dixon comics delivering below-the-belt jokes. My first impulse was to disregard the movie altogether, and just go with another day's title (okay, there was only one other day at the gym this week). Then, the more I thought about it, the more excited I got: this could turn out to be a whole lot of off-the-beaten-path fun, like getting a free glimpse...
- 8/12/2011
- by Kurtis O
- FilmExperience
Larry the Cable Guy is set to get animated for Comedy Central.
The cable network has ordered a half-hour animated pilot starring the Blue Collar comedian, who is the creator and writer of the still-untitled project along with feature film scribes Joel Cohen and Alec Sokolow.
Larry will star as a misguided but well-intentioned co-owner of a cable TV station whose other owner is a woman of class and taste who does not share his vision for programming, preferring instead a more traditional station lineup to Larry's experimental, half-baked show ideas. As can be expected, they seldom agree on anything.
Creator-writers Larry, Cohen and Sokolow will executive produce the pilot with J.P. Williams. Jim Sharp is the executive in charge of production.
The pilot marks a continuation of Larry's successful relationship with Comedy Central, which aired the network TV premiere of the film Blue Collar Comedy Tour: The Movie, drawing more than 2 million viewers in November 2003. The premieres of the network's Blue Collar Comedy Tour Rides Again (February 2005) and Blue Collar Comedy Tour: One for the Road (in June) drew 6.1 million and 5.3 million viewers, respectively, ranking the programs as the Nos.
The cable network has ordered a half-hour animated pilot starring the Blue Collar comedian, who is the creator and writer of the still-untitled project along with feature film scribes Joel Cohen and Alec Sokolow.
Larry will star as a misguided but well-intentioned co-owner of a cable TV station whose other owner is a woman of class and taste who does not share his vision for programming, preferring instead a more traditional station lineup to Larry's experimental, half-baked show ideas. As can be expected, they seldom agree on anything.
Creator-writers Larry, Cohen and Sokolow will executive produce the pilot with J.P. Williams. Jim Sharp is the executive in charge of production.
The pilot marks a continuation of Larry's successful relationship with Comedy Central, which aired the network TV premiere of the film Blue Collar Comedy Tour: The Movie, drawing more than 2 million viewers in November 2003. The premieres of the network's Blue Collar Comedy Tour Rides Again (February 2005) and Blue Collar Comedy Tour: One for the Road (in June) drew 6.1 million and 5.3 million viewers, respectively, ranking the programs as the Nos.
- 12/13/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Jeff Foxworthy continues to be very good to Comedy Central, which saw its annual Roast devoted to the comedian Sunday become the channel's second-most-watched program ever. The Comedy Central Roast of Jeff Foxworthy drew 6.2 million total viewers, eclipsing the previous second-best set last month on the channel, Blue Collar Comedy Tour Rides Again. This also featured Foxworthy and attracted 6.1 million. Roast finished just behind a 1998 episode of South Park that remains the channel's record holder. Animal Planet did manage to reset its channel record Sunday, with the 90-minute special Dragons: A Fantasy Made Real drawing more than 3 million.
- 3/23/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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