The Ambiguously Gay Duo, Robert Smigel’s inseparable pair of crime fighters, made their debut almost 19 years ago on the short-lived Dana Carvey Show, before making the leap to Saturday Night Live. Ace and Gary, voiced by Stephen Colbert and Steve Carell, respectively, appeared in 13 shorts between 1996 and 2011, when Jon Hamm and Jimmy Fallon suited up for a live-action version. The 2011 short was originally conceived by Smigel as a test reel of sorts for the live-action feature script that he had written with Colbert six year before. Read More...
Oscar night, 1999. The best actor envelope has just been opened. The winner bounds onto the stage, his face streaked with tears, pausing at the podium to soak up the applause. Then he turns his back to the audience, bends over, and thanks the Academy through his butt cheeks. — The most shocking thing about the foregoing fantasy sequence isn’t the butt part, but that everything else could conceivably come true — at least if you buy the buzz currently humming around The Truman Show, the new Peter Weir film in which Jim Carrey attempts to prove he’s more than just another elastic face. Read More...
When viewers tune in to Fashion Police’s Oscar wrap-up on E! they’re probably expecting cutting remarks, but Joan Rivers – no stranger to controversy – went a bit further than that with some not-so-innocent jokes about Heidi Klum’s Oscar outfit. Speaking about Klum’s showstopping gold dress with a seriously plunging neckline, Rivers remarked Monday, “The last time a German looked this hot was when they were pushing Jews into the ovens. Read More...
