"comedy" Articles & Blogs:
3rd Annual Women In Comedy Festival
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Are you a funny lady? Of course you are! Give the crowds your two cents on airplane food (what is the deal, am I right!?) at Boston's third annual Women In Comedy Festival. The festival has extended its submission deadline and now you have until January ...[Read on] |
This One Goes Out to the Ladies: Judd Apatow and Kristen Wiig collab on new comedy, Bridesmaids
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Dude-comedy maverick, Judd Apatow, recently announced he'll be producing a comedy by women. Bridesmaids is written by SNL's Kristen Wiig and The Groundling's Annie Mumolo and is a veritable who's-who of tv's comediennes; with a line-up featuring Maya Rudo...[Read on] |
Mindy Kaling of 'The Office' Wants To Write Romantic-Comedies For A New Generation
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We all love Tina Fey, don’t get me wrong, but wouldn’t it be nice to have more than one path set for women writing comedy? She has really has set a new standard for what it means to be a female comedy writer and I’m sure it’s...[Read on] |
The Proposal tops Sex and the City
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This kind of snuck up on me. The Sandra Bullock film The Proposal has now surpassed Sex and the City in its domestic gross. Sex and the City earned almost $153 million and this week The Proposal passed $155 million and its still going.
Interesting.
I ...[Read on] |
Mo'Nique's Spreads The Love With New Comedy Tour
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Mo'Nique doesn't stop! After winning a number of awards (including a SAG Award, a Golden Globe and the Washington, DC, Boston, Los Angeles, and New York Film Critics Award) being nominated for an Academy Award, and hosting a successful...[Read on] |
When Meryl met Tina
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When I saw this picture I tried to come up with my idea of what these two awesome women said to each other on the red carpet at the Screen Actor’s Guild Awards this past Saturday. Every scenario I wrote was so lame that I can’t post them. Any of y...[Read on] |
Margaret Cho drops a bomb
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(AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
Here’s a doozy. Leave it to Jessica Wakeman via the frisky to get some juicy news. This time in a conversation she had with Margaret Cho, Margaret started talking about women comedians and how straight women are less succe...[Read on] |
Women and the Emmys
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Dearbhla Walsh
Here’s a list of the women (and shows about women) that won at the Emmys.
Comedy Series: “30 Rock,” NBC.
Actress, Drama Series: Glenn Close, “Damages,” FX Networks.
Actress, Comedy Series: Toni Collette, “United States of Ta...[Read on] |
An Unlikely Romantic Comedy
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I don’t want to give away too much about the quirky little diddy, Obvious Child, but I will say that it’s an unlikely romantic comedy in that it features Jenny Slate as a woman named Donna, heartbroken and one half of a one night stand who w...[Read on] |
Lena Dunham gets HBO Pilot
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Lena Dunham’s Tiny Furniture which made its debut at SWSX is a really great film. I saw it a couple of weeks ago and loved it. I’m not going to write too much about it here since it will be released in November, but it is smart and a breath of f...[Read on] |
Sexism Watch: The Jay Leno Show- Where are the Women Writers?
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Jay Leno does a lot of good things with his piles of money. He funds very important work being done to support women and girls in Afghanistan through the Feminist Majority, but as Nancy Franklin pointed out in a recent New Yorker story on his new show, ...[Read on] |
Variety’s 10 Screenwriters to Watch
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Here are the women on Variety’s 10 screenwriters to Watch. It is really focused on comedy writers and seems to have a bit of a feminist bent. Here’s to hoping these women make some good films that we get to see in theatres.
Emma Forrest
“I’m...[Read on] |
Hollywood Feminist of the Day: Ben Stiller
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Thought this quote was interesting from Ben Stiller in an interview for his new film Night at the Museum Two that appeared in Time Out Dubai (yes, I guess there is a Time Out Dubai)
Question: Most of the comedy in this film and most others comes from men...[Read on] |
Q&A;: Sarah Silverman: "'Penis' and 'Vagina' Should Be Equal Comedically, but They're Not"
| Like a cheerier version of Jeremy Renner’s demolitions expert in The Hurt Locker, Sarah Silverman is the kind of comedian who loves nothing better than venturing into the treacherous topics of race, sex, and religion to nimbly navigate some potentia...[Read on] |
Three Cheers for Diablo!
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It's official...one of our favorite BUST-y ladies, Diablo Cody, has sold a pilot to Fox! So far, the only thing anyone knows is that it is called The Breadwinner and it's a comedy. I can only imagine where it could possibly go from there. My mind is runni...[Read on] |
Keeping the Mood Light at The Lovely Bones Premiere
| Susan Sarandon, Christian Ashdale, Peter Jackson, and Saoirse Ronan at The Lovely Bones premiere in New York City, on December 3, 2009. Photographs by PatrickMcMullan.com. “I didn’t even recognize you!” Susan Sarandon said to an Alexander Wang-clad ...[Read on] |
Review: Bridesmaids
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The word being tossed around in relation to Kristen Wiig's star-making new comedy Bridesmaids is womance, and the portmanteau is somewhat apt but not entirely fair. Writers love a good pun or, better yet, a tidy way to label something, especia...[Read on] |
HBO Orders Comedy Pilot About Female VP
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Here’s some interesting news. HBO has ordered a comedy pilot from Armando Iannucci who wrote the hysterical In the Loop which will be about the first female VP. It’s called Veep.
Julia Louis-Dreyfus has been mentioned as a possible star &#...[Read on] |
Golden Globe Nominees – The Women
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I like the Golden Globes because it is one of the only opportunities to see some great women on TV nominated with film stars. I know it’s a joke because only 100 people do the voting, but it brings a certain lightness to the awards season.
Some ...[Read on] |
Knocked Up: Feminist Filmmakers Celebrate Roe
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In celebration of the anniversary of the infamous pro-choice ruling of Roe v. Wade, local New York feminist filmmakers are holding screenings of two films this Thursday, January 14th. Obvious Child, co-written and produced by previous BUST intern Anna Bea...[Read on] |
The First Ladies of Comedy
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photo by: Joe Pugliese
Damn, I love them all. Look at those boot on Marion Ross! And if you don’t watch Cloris Leachman on Raising Hope you are missing something hysterical.
TV’s Legendary Sitcom Queens (The Hollywood Reporter)
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Interview with Allison Janney
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I’ve been a big fan of Janney since I saw her onstage over a decade ago in A View from the Bridge and LOVED her as CJ Cregg on the West Wing. I recently saw her as Violet in 9 to 5, a show much maligned by critics but loved by audiences. She’s als...[Read on] |
Is Bridesmaids the Best Comedy of 2011?
| Maya Rudolph, Kristen Wiig, and Ellie Kemper. Courtesy of IMDb.Kristen Wiig kicks off the summer comedies (not counting Fast Five) with Bridesmaids, which she both stars in and co-wrote. She plays Annie, a woman trying to fulfill her duties as maid of hon...[Read on] |
Julia Louis-Dreyfus gets star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
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Some good news. The awesome comedy of Julia Louis-Dreyfus is being publicly recognized this morning in Hollywood with Julia receiving a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
In a piece in Variety Dreyfus talked about her comedy idols:
I’ve always adm...[Read on] |
First Lady of France Carla Bruni Spotted Filming New Woody Allen Film
| Photo by Remi Jouan.In November of last year, Carla Bruni announced that she had agreed to appear in Woody Allen’s then-unnamed new film. “Perhaps I will be very bad,” she mused. Maybe—we will soon find out. Yesterday, photographers snapped pictur...[Read on] |
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