The Hangover Part III star Zach Galifianakis hosted Saturday Night Live last night for the third time and brought the house down with his absurd humor and cadre of famous guests.
That’ll Be Quite Enough Anne Hathaway 2: The Return of Anne Hathaway
In case you forgot, Anne Hathaway has the tendency to be insufferable, and she’s not busy doing much to help fight that. On a special Oscars edition of Zach Galifianakis’ Between Two Ferns, almost all of his guests played themselves as straight men to Zach’s wacky interview tactics. But you know who took it 100 steps further, playing a drunk(?) version of herself? You guessed it: Anne Hathaway.
Movie Trend Alert! Magic Mike 2, The Hangover Part III: Hope Everyone Likes Road Movies!
Road trip! Naked, drunken road trip! Try to keep your 2013 calender open, because it looks like both The Hangover Part III and Magic Mike 2 are going to be road movies. “This time, there’s no wedding. No bachelor party. What could go wrong, right? But when the Wolfpack hits the road, all bets are off,” ComingSoon reports as the movie’s official plot description. The Hangover Part III seems like it would easily translate into a road movie (Ed Helms is definitely getting left in a filthy rest stop bathroom) and the format would work for the plot Zach Galifianakis allegedly spilled last year (in which the threequel “ditches the format of the first two and focuses on his character escaping from a mental institution with help from the wolf pack.”), but for stripping? We just don’t know, ya’ll.
According to a recent interview with German site Filmstarts in which certified genius Channing Tatum offers himself up as a potential Magic Mike 2 director, the film’s co-writer Reid Carolin allegedly describes the plot as a “broad road trip comedy.” Based on comments from Joe Manganiello back in June, it also looks like the film is going to be a prequel. So how is that going to work? Are the guys going to learn to strip at seedy roadside bars? Are they going to wear painfully outdated clothes from 2002 in order for the continuity to make sense aaaaaaand we’re back on board! Wooooooo hooooo! Sexy, flared jeans road trip!
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Is The Campaign To Blame For Uggie’s Retirement?
There are a lot of reasons to laugh at Will Ferrell and Zach Galifianakis‘ movie The Campaign, but only one real reason to jump up and down in your seat: Uggie the dog makes a cameo! For real, we were sure that we’d seen the last of The Artist’s scene-stealer during awards season, when his trainers announced the 10-year-old canine was retiring from showbiz. But it turns out, Campaign director Jay Roach booked him just under the wire.
“Uggie retired the day after we shot,” Roach told VH1. “I don’t know what that says about our set. Maybe it’s a source of so much stress that Uggie couldn’t take … or maybe it was what had to happen to Uggie [in the movie].”
We won’t spoil what happens to the beloved terrier in the movie, but once you see it, you’ll know why Roach told us, apologetically, “Neither Uggie nor any infants were harmed on our set. It was all visual effects.” Maybe it’s just that Uggie didn’t quite get Ferrell and Galifianakis’ particular brand of teasing comedy.
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Zach Galifianakis, Will Ferrell Are “So Good At Insulting Each Other,” Campaign Director Says
“Hate to break it to you, friend, but your balloon is getting ready to pop, and that balloon is full of your own butt toots,” Zach Galifianakis’ Marty Huggins tells Will Ferrell’s Rep. Cam Brady before their first debate in The Campaign.
“You’re such a little turd that when you sit in sand, cats try to bury you,” Ferrell shoots back.
After our my personal experience with the Galifianakis-Ferrell show, I realized it’s very difficult to tell which of those insults came from a written script and which must have sprung straight from their mouths. And I wondered how, if at all, a director could control the hilarious fighting spirit of these two stars.
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Will Ferrell, Zach Galifianakis Share Love Of Yacht Rock … And Making Interviewers Squirm
The above is a mere excerpt of my interview with Zach Galifianakis and Will Ferrell over the weekend. To promote their antagonistic chemistry in The Campaign, the two have been making the rounds with all sorts of awkward appearances and more awkward interviews, and I found myself at the receiving end of one of these. And I learned that while it’s easy enough to laugh at them when you’re on this side of the computer or movie screen, when you’re 6 feet away, what comes out is more nervous tittering than raucous guffaws. Well, I hope you guys can laugh at my expense, anyway.
Let me assure you, I had all sorts of actually interesting questions for them about Anchorman 2 and working with director Jay Roach and making fun of Mitt Romney. But from the moment Zach interrupted my simple warm-up question about why they work well together by pouring an entire tin of “sugar-free black currants” into his mouth, I was thrown off my game.
“They were like miniature sanitary cakes for a tiny toilet,” Ferrell declared of the candies after spitting one out. And yet Galifianakis kept them in his mouth for the next four minutes.
Finally, an answer of sorts came: “We both love soft rock, yacht rock,” Ferrell said.
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Will Ferrell, Zach Galifianakis Promote The Campaign By Slapping, Hazing Reporters
While preparing to for today’s press junket for The Campaign, I rewatched the above Will Ferrell episode of Zach Galifianakis‘ “Between Two Ferns.” It’s a surreal, supremely awkward, hilarious exchange. And it will give you a very good idea of how my afternoon went down (minus the Jon Hamm cameo, unfortunately). Not that I’m complaining, mind you.
Before it was my turn to interview Galifianakis and Ferrell, who play absurdly inept rivals in a North Carolina congressional campaign, I and the rest of the reporters were treated to the sight of an interview that happened earlier in the day: After one interviewer asked about a scene in which Dylan McDermott (as an assassin-like campaign manager) slaps Galifianakis, Ferrell stood up and demonstrated … by slapping the reporter. We even got the scene in slo-mo. (I’m waiting for this clip to go viral, though it hasn’t surfaced yet. So, yeah, I was bracing myself for my own exchange with these two.
What went down? Well, no one was physically assaulted. But let’s just say I didn’t get to a lot of my hard-hitting questions. Was it because they hate talking to reporters? Not at all. They just get a kick out of keeping that Will-and-Zach show going for as long as possible. Stay tuned for the full report — and video — soon!
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Ice-T Vs. Rush Limbaugh Joins The List Of Extremely Random Celebrity Beefs
We feel like celebrity beefs have gotten increasingly random lately. Has anyone else noticed this? We blame Twitter, just like we blame Twitter for the current beef between Ice-T and Rush Limbaugh. Well…okay, we blame Twitter and Rush Limbaugh. “He knew the word ‘tyranny.’ And he knows that tyranny comes from government representatives. Double impressive,” the conservative radio host joked about Ice-T, after the rapper used the word while defending gun ownership. “Rush Limbaugh said he was impressed I knew the word ‘tyranny’… He’s a racist piece of sh–,” Ice-T replied on (where else?) Twitter. Jeez, Rush, why are you ripping on someone who agrees with you? And Ice, why are you listening to anything that Rush Limbaugh has to say? Of course, when it comes to celebrity beef, there’s no reasoning with anyone. If there way, how would you explain all the absurd celebrity beefs that have come before?
Magic Mike To Stacee Jaxx: Who Will Be Summer’s Funniest (And Sexiest) Men?
As The Avengers kick off summer movie season today with a bang or two (or 100), it’s easy enough to forget that blockbusters aren’t just about men in tights, showing off their massive CGI effects. On some of those sweltering days, you don’t want to step into a theater to worry about the fate of the world; you want to laugh your ass off. We’ve already looked at the ladies doing their part to make the season hilarious, and now it’s time for us to decide which of these sexy funnymen will be the sexiest and funniest at the multiplex from May through August.
This year, we have some double threats — the guys who will make us laugh and fan ourselves: Tom Cruise radiates sex as rock god Stacee Jaxx in Rock of Ages, Matthew McConaughey sells it as strip-club owner Dallas in Magic Mike, and Mark Wahlberg hides it beneath a manchild exterior as John, the guy who tries to let go of his talking teddy bear in Ted. There are also the funny guys we crush on, no matter how goofy their characters, like Russell Brand as the narrator of Rock of Ages and Andy Samberg as Adam Sandler’s unfortunate son in That’s My Boy. There are the comedians we’d kind of like to take home to mom — Ed Norton and Jason Schwartzman in Moonrise Kingdom, Ben Stiller and Jonah Hill in Neighborhood Watch, Steve Carell in Seeking a Friend for the End of the World, Chris Rock in What to Expect When You’re Expecting, and Zach Galifianakis and Will Ferrell in The Campaign. And then there are the bad boys we’d keep secret about, Vince Vaughn in Neighborhood Watch and Sacha Baron Cohen in The Dictator.
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Zach Galifianakis Shares Profound Insights Like “Two Thongs Don’t Make A Thight”
I’m not going to lie — I was nervous to interview Zach Galifianakis at the Puss in Boots press junket. He’s kind of a comedy hero of mine, so much so that when I tried to tell him how dearly I loved the show Dog Bites Man, I got the name wrong. Sometimes I get so awks around my idols, guys! Blergh.
Luckily, Zach was really fun to talk to, which is how we ended up spending most of our time chatting about VH1 videos, wedding rings and ladies with thongs hanging out of their jeans. Zach also shared the tale of his cat, F Train, who went missing in Santa Monica, only to turn up living with an old lady who vowed to commit suicide if he took the cat back. You’ll have to watch our interview to find out how that story ended (hint: No one died). LOLs await you in the clip above, which is mostly unedited so you too can enjoy our pre-interview banter about Swing Out Sister, a band Zach claims was played on VH1 a lot back in the day. We’ll take his word for it — he was, after all, a VH1 personality for a hot minute.
