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Jimmy Fallon and The Roots performed Holiday with Madonna and some classroom instruments on tonight’s The Tonight Show. What more can you say about their performance of one of her earlier hits, but that it was totally bitchin’.
Before Josh Gad was asking Do You Want to Build a Snowman? in Frozen, he was singing about his Magic Foot in The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. How amazing was the 25 year old in that 2006 musical?
It’s a sad day on the Great White Way because the curtain is coming down on Mamma Mia! in September according to Playbill. The curtain went up on the Broadway musical written around Abba’s music in 2001 and will end a month before its 14th anniversary and 5,765 performances. While that is a long run for any show, it is not long enough for this wonderful musical turned in to a movie. At least we can take some solace that it will go down in history as the 8th longest running Broadway show and it will play on for one last summer!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpDSM2FbIks
Billy Crystal is returning to TV tonight in FX’s The Comedians at 10p and he’s bringing Josh Gad along with him.
The show is about the two of them starring in a mockumentary of the making of their variety show that is slated on the network. To say the two of them hate each other would be understatement. Their resentment they have for each other is what makes the show so funny. Each week, they will try to make the show work even though they can’t stand each other.
The show is not only about them, it is also about their inept staff. Kristen Laybourne (Stephnie Weir) is their producer and she is beyond clueless. While she is at the top of the food chain, Esme (Megan Ferguson) is at the bottom, and she is the smartest one of them all. She knows how to play the game and she plays it better than anyone else.
You can’t have two leads like Crystal and Gad and not expect great guest stars. Steven Weber plays a director and you’ve never seen him looking like this before. Mel Brooks plays himself and he does a cat imitation that is so good even my kitty thought it was the real thing.
While those are the guest stars, the episodes have their own unique appeal. There’s one episode where they get high and go to a supermarket. Another one where Gad has to learn how to fake cry and he can’t do it. And every episode has least one funny sketch in it. Like tonight Crystal plays all the roles in that infamous When Harry Met Sally scene.
If you like to laugh, then be prepared to do a lot of it during The Comedians.
Reese Witherspoon is playing a cop who has to protect Sofia Vergara in the movie Hot Pursuit that’s out on May 8th and that means she is has to go in disguise some times. During one of those times she dresses as a man, but she winds up looking like a teenage Justin Bieber. You know what, I think she looks better like that. Don’t you?
