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... Tenacious D movie more than a decade after Black and Kyle Gass formed their heavy-metal homage/parody suggests they're too late to their own party; already there have been myriad and Mr. Show appearances, the short-lived HBO series, and the 2001 album, not to mention Black's role in The School of Rock, which capitalized on his performance as, well, more or...
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The Best of Saturday TV Funhouse (Universal)
No DVD in recent memory is better served by its commentary track than this compendium of Robert Smigel's animated shorts made for . One minute, Al Franken pops up on a bonus cut ("Santa and the States," in which the red states are labeled "Dumbfuckistan" by that jolly ol' soul) talking about how conservatives...
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...illy Bob Thornton). There, Roger finds other neutered man-children who live with their grandmothers and take no for an answer, among them Eli (High Fidelity's Todd Louiso), Diego ('s Horatio Sanz), and Walsh (Matt Walsh, a Phillips regular and former member of the Upright Citizens Brigade). They're cowards and losers all — not unlike the men who make up...
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There is no modern-day antecedent to the movies Will Ferrell makes with writer-director Adam McKay, with whom Ferrell collaborated during their tenure at only a few years ago. To compare their offerings, Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy and the new Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby, to the oeuvres of Adam Sandler or ...
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Godzilla: The Original Animated Series, Volumes I and II (Sony Wonder)
The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things (Palm)
Sarah Silverman: Jesus Is Magic (Interscope)
: The Best Of (Lions Gate)
The Syrian Bride (Koch Lorber)
The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (Sony)
Underworld: Evolution (Sony)
Fried Green Tomatoes: Extended Anniver...
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...ol Musical: Encore Edition (Disney)
M*A*S*H: Season Ten Collector's Edition (Fox)
Metal: A Headbanger's Journey (Warner Bros.)
100 Rifles (Fox)
One Last Thing (Magnolia)
: The Best of Cheri Oteri (Universal)
: The Best of Commercial Parodies (Universal)
Thomas & Friends: Tales From the Tracks (Hit)
Transamerica (Weinstein)
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Art School Confidential is very much like every movie pilfered from the playbook, in which the slight giggles of a four-minute sketch are wrung into two-hour yawns. The work upon which it's based is a four-page excerpt from a 14-year-old comic book ca...
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...r Reeve is a winner in my book.
Hey, I may be sick in the head, but there are a lot of us around here who don't get much nourishment, now that David Letterman has gotten old and has cleaned up its act. About the only thing going is Bill Maher's show, and now, 'course, Cap'n Mike and Chuey the Rock 'N' Roll Midget.
Denise Parra, Phoenix
Laughter -- and...
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By Jordan Harper, Melissa Levine and Robert Wilonsky Published:
January 26, 2006
...formances are thrilling, chief among them those by the Jam, Costello & the Attractions, and the Ramones, who wanted the airwaves and got 'em for three songs. -- Robert Wilonsky
: The Best of David Spade (Universal)
Consider us among the few who have always found David Spade oddly likable, not least because he's so eager to make an ass of himself. This c...
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...cking Up. Something about a sad clown comes to mind.
But Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World is a particularly painful event for those of us weaned on Brooks' earliest films, shorts, and vintage clips of his deadpan standup appearances. It contains precisely two funny moments, one of which involves his being asked by al-Jazeera execs to star in a propo...
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...or the ladies
FRI 12/2For some people, the words "Chippendale dancer" conjure up the image of a spastic Chris Farley ripping off his shirt and shaking his protruding belly fat on . But in real life, there are no hairy chests; instead, you've got bronzed six-packs and bulging biceps. See for yourself at 8 p.m. Friday, December 2, as the Chippendales perform ...
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... the Mic Halloween Party with live music from Ben Araiza, and TWIG. 8 p.m. $8. Call 602-253-7337.
Anderson's Fifth Estate
6820 East Fifth Avenue, Scottsdale
www.a5e.net
Halloween Party with costume contest for prizes ($100 for first place, $50 for second, and gift certificates for third), 2-for-1 drinks until 10 p.m., hourly shot specials, and a ...
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... the Mic Halloween Party with live music from Ben Araiza, and TWIG. 8 p.m. $8. Call 602-253-7337.
Anderson's Fifth Estate
6820 East Fifth Avenue, Scottsdale
www.a5e.net
Halloween Party with costume contest for prizes ($100 for first place, $50 for second, and gift certificates for third), 2-for-1 drinks until 10 p.m., hourly shot specials, and a ...
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...ge is located at 24 North Second Street. Call 602-253-0118.
SUN 9"Over-the-top deadpan" sounds like an oxymoron unless you're talking about native New Yorker Colin Quinn. The alumnus has been a pokerfaced joker since his early days on MTV's Remote Control game show, where he proved he could do things like identify Axl Rose's ass from a millisecond of v...
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By Niki D'Andrea, David Gofstein, Clay McNear and Kanupriya Vashisht Published:
September 15, 2005
...16-9/17While most kids long to be baseball stars or astronauts, Darrell Hammond was a comedian born. He started impersonating family members when he was 5, and he's blossomed into 's resident impressionist, specializing in letter-perfect portrayals of political and entertainment figures such as Bill Clinton, Al Gore, Sean Connery, Regis Philbin, Dan Rather, ...
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...e such dreck. Indeed, this is the very kind of lamebrained folly Levy and his SCTV cohorts used to mock on their old show; now it's how he makes rent. One of its writers came from , though Margaret Oberman was there during its bleak early 1980s period. Her collaborator, actor Jim Piddock, has had roles in two of Guest's movies, including Best in Show, in whi...
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...ears 1-3 Collection (Warner Bros.)
Hellraiser: Hellworld (Buena Vista)
Lost: The Complete First Season (Disney/Buena Vista)
MacGyver: The Complete Third Season (Paramount)
: The First 5 Years (Lions Gate)
Save the Green Planet! (Koch Lorber Films)
Stephen King Presents Kingdom Hospital: The Beginning (Columbia Tristar)
The Sting: Special Editio...
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...lynt."
We perambulate, and nearby is this cat named Scott, hanging with his pal, a fella in a red wig and a kilt who'll only give us the name Jack Handy, like in the old skit on : "Deep Thoughts, by Jack Handy." Neither's in a toga, though Scott is, uh, three sheets to the wind.
"You're with the New Times?!" exclaims Scott, a little shaky on his feet. "W...
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Don't go to the Tempe Improv this weekend expecting old bits from comedian Tracy Morgan. And if you're offended by anything in Morgan's standup act, don't you dare go home and diss him on the 'Net. "I think those people are cowards tha...
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... Americanized play on "Don Juan." Apparently, Warren Beatty never had a thing on this guy.
As a movie actor, Murray has long since abandoned the playful cutup everybody loved on and taken up residence in a darker, more seasoned persona -- part ironist, part tormented seeker, only occasionally the purveyor of jest or joke. In Flowers, we see in Murray the ...
