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GERALD NACHMAN
Revisiting the '50s & '60
A Time when Comedy
Was a Serious Business

MOVIES & More:

See What's on the
BIG SCREEN
for Winter 2004-2005

@ the THEATER:

Laughter on the
STAGES of NYC
for Winter 2004-2005

Holiday HA HA HA:

DR. ELMO
Grandma Got Run
Over by a Reindeer
Turns Twenty-five

TV & Laughtracks:

JIBJAB.com's
Animated Presidential
Parodies Jump from
Web to TV Screens
Across This Land

STANDUP & Clubtalk:

DAVE SCHWENSEN
Here's an Insiders
Guide to Making
Money at Being Funny

Past Issues

Links to Past Issues'
Table of Contents

Fall 2003:

Leah Remini,
Rupert Holmes,
Dr. Demento,
Henry Holden,
Talking Turkey

Fall 2002:

Stiller & Meara,
Barry Williams,
Nick Swardson

Spring 2002:

Roger Lodge,
Alan King,
Leighann Lord,
Walsh & Roberts

Winter 2001-2002:

John Henton,
Smothers Brothers,
Eric O'Shea,
Larry Epstein,
Life of a Broadway Play

Sumer 2001:

Kevin James,
Richard Pryor,
Brad Oscar,
Jeff Dunham,
Joey Kola

Spring 2001:

Richard Lewis,
Adam Ferrara,
Taylor & Bologna,
Brooks & Reiner,
America's Taxing Times

TalkingComedy.com Features Interviews with Comedians in TV, Movies & Standup

Vol. 4 / No. 1 • Winter 2004 - 2005 • MOVIES & More…

Here's a Small Taste of the Comedies
Playing in Movie Theaters this February …
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• COMEDY • SATIRE • FEBRUARY MOVIES • SATIRE • COMEDY •

	Movie Spotlight On: Hitch (Comedy/Romance) A professional matchmaker's program is threatened by a female journalist who enrolls as a student and plans on publishing an exposé on his fradulent methods. Cast: Will Smith (Alex 'Hitch' Hitchens), Eva Mendes (Sara), Kevin James (Albert), Amber Valletta (Allegra Cole), Julie Ann Emery (Casey), Robinne Lee (Cressida), Nathan Lee Graham (Geoff), Adam Arkin (Max), Michael Rapaport (Ben), Jeffrey Donovan (Vance), Paula Patton (Mandy), Philip Bosco (Mr. O'Brian), Kevin Sussman (Neil), Navia Nguyen (Mika), Matt Malloy (Pete) Director: Andy Tennant / Screenwriters: Kevin Bisch Official Web Site: sonypictures.com/movies/hitch

	Movie Spotlight On: Son of the Mask (Comedy/Drama) Dan Forman (Quaid) plays a middle-aged ad exec faced with a new boss, Carter Duryea (Grace), who's nearly half his age. Dan and Carter's uneasy relationship is thrown into jeopardy when Carte falls for, and begins an affair with, Dan's daughter Alex (Johansson). Cast: Dennis Quaid (Dan Foreman), Topher Grace (Carter Duryea), Marg Helgenberger (Ann Foreman), Scarlett Johansson (Alex Foreman), Selma Blair, Clark Gregg, Philip Baker Hall, David Paymer, Nick Schutt, Lauren Tom Director: Paul Weitz / Screenwriter: Paul Weitz Official Web Site: www.TheMaskisBack.com

	Movie Spotlight On: The Wedding Date (Comedy/Romance) Single-girl anxiety causes Kat Ellis (Messing) to attempt to dupe her ex-fiancé (who dumped her a couple years prior) by hiring a male escort (Mulroney) to pose as her boyfriend at her sister's wedding. Her plan … proves to be her undoing. Cast: Debra Messing (Kat Ellis), Dermot Mulroney (Nick Mercer), Amy Adams (Amy), Jack Davenport (Edward Fletcher-Wooten), Sarah Parish (TJ), Jeremy Sheffield (Jeffrey), Peter Egan (Victor Ellis), Holland Taylor (Bunny), Jolyon James (Woody), C. Gerod Harris, Martin Barrett Director: Clare Kilner / Screenwriter: Dana Fox Official Web Site: www.theweddingdate.net

Here's a Small Taste of the Comedies
Playing in Movie Theaters this January …
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• COMEDY • SATIRE • JANUARY MOVIES • SATIRE • COMEDY •

Movie Spotlight On: Racing Stripes (Comedy/Family)
An abandoned zebra (voice of Frankie Muniz) grows up believing he is a racehorse, and, with the help of his barnyard friends and a teenage girl (Hayden Panettiere), sets out to achieve his dream of racing with thoroughbred horses.
Cast: Voice Talent: Frankie Muniz (Stripes), Michael Clarke Duncan (Clydesdale), Jeff Foxworthy (Reggie), Whoopi Goldberg (Franny), Steve Harvey (Buzz), Dustin Hoffman (Tucker), Joshua Jackson (Sir Trenton's Pride)
Hayden Panettiere (Channing Walsh), Bruce Greenwood (Nolan Walsh), Gary Bullock (Cooper), Wendie Malick (Clara Dalrymple)
Director: Frederik Du Chau / Screenwriters: David Schmidt, Steven P. Wegner & Kirk De Micco
Official Web Site: racingstripesmovie.warnerbros.com

Here's a Small Taste of the Comedies
Playing in Movie Theaters this December …
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• COMEDY • SATIRE • DECEMBER MOVIES • SATIRE • COMEDY •

	Movie Spotlight On: Fat Albert (Comedy/African-American/Kids) This movie follows the misadventures of a group of adolescent boys growing up today in a Philadelphia neighborhood. Focusing on an overweight boy named Albert, and his friends, Rudy, Mushmouth, Bill, Dumb Donald, Russell, and Weird Harold. Fat Albert befriends two girls, one of whom he falls for. Based on the animated TV show Fat Albert & the Cosby Kids. Cast: Kenan Thompson (Fat Albert), Kyla Pratt (Doris Roberts), Shedrack Anderson III (Rudy), Jermaine Williams (Mushmouth), Keith Robinson (Bill), Alphonso McAuley (Bucky), Aaron Frazier (Old Weird Harold), Marques Houston (Dumb Donald), Dania Ramirez (Lauri), Omarion (Reggie), J. Mack Slaughter (Arthur) Director: Joel Zwick / Screenwriters: Bill Cosby & Charles Kipps Official Web Site: www.fatalbertthemovie.com

	Movie Spotlight On: In Good Company (Comedy/Drama) Dan Forman (Quaid) plays a middle-aged ad exec faced with a new boss, Carter Duryea (Grace), who's nearly half his age. Dan and Carter's uneasy relationship is thrown into jeopardy when Carte falls for, and begins an affair with, Dan's daughter Alex (Johansson). Cast: Dennis Quaid (Dan Foreman), Topher Grace (Carter Duryea), Marg Helgenberger (Ann Foreman), Scarlett Johansson (Alex Foreman), Selma Blair, Clark Gregg, Philip Baker Hall, David Paymer, Nick Schutt, Lauren Tom Director: Paul Weitz / Screenwriter: Paul Weitz Official Web Site: www.ingoodcompanymovie.com

	Movie Spotlight On: Lemony Snicket's: A Series of Unfortunate Events (Comedy/Adventure/Fantasy/Kids/Based on Book) Three wealthy children's parents are killed in a Fire. When they are sent to a distant relative, they find out that he is plotting to kill them and seize their fortune. Based on a book sseries by Daniel Handler. Cast: Jim Carrey (Count Olaf), Meryl Streep (Aunt Josephine), Jude Law (Lemony Snicket-voice), Emily Browning (Violet Baudelaire), Liam Aiken (Klaus Baudelaire), Kara Hoffman (Sunny), Shelby Hoffman (Sunny), Timothy Spall (Mr. Poe), Billy Connolly (Uncle Monty) Director: Brad Silberling / Screenwriter: Robert Gordon Official Web Site: www.unfortunateeventsmovie.com

	Movie Spotlight On: Meet the Fockers (Comedy/Sequel) Ex-CIA man Jack Byrnes (De Niro) and his wife (Danner), having given permission to male nurse Greg Focker (Stiller) to wed his daughter (Polo), travel to Detroit to "meet the (other) parents", who this time around are Mr. and Mrs. Focker (Hoffman and Streisand), as different from the Byrnes as can be. Cast: Robert De Niro (Jack Byrnes), Ben Stiller (Gaylord 'Greg' M. Focker), Teri Polo (Pamela Martha Byrnes), Dustin Hoffman (Bernie Focker), Blythe Danner (Dina Byrnes), Barbra Streisand (Roz Focker), Alanna Ubach (Isabel), Ray Santiago (Jorge Villalobos) Director: Jay Roach / Screenwriters: John Hamburg, Jim Herzfeld, Marc Hyman & Vince Di Meglio Official Web Site: www.meetthefockers.com

	Movie Spotlight On: Ocean's Twelve (Action/Comedy/Crime/Thriller) Danny Ocean (Pitt) is gathering up his gang of con artists and thieves from the first film before they jet off to Europe to pull off three major heists. In hopes of becoming the greatest thieves the world has ever known Ocean recruites one more team member in this sequel to Ocean's 11. Meanwhile Terry Benedict (Garcia), whom Ocean and crew ripped off in Las Vegas, is looking for revenge... Cast: Brad Pitt (Rusty Ryan), Catherine Zeta-Jones (Isabel Lahiri), George Clooney (Danny Ocean), Ed Kross (Bank Officer), Julia Roberts (Tess Ocean), Andy Garcia (Terry Benedict), Casey Affleck (Virgil Malloy), Scott Caan (Turk Malloy), Dina Connolly (Virgil's Fiancée) Director: Steven Soderbergh / Screenwriter: George Nolfi Official Web Site: www.oceans12.warnerbros.com

	Movie Spotlight On: Spanglish (Comedy/Romance) A woman (Vega) and her daughter (Garcia) emigrate from Mexico for a better life in America. Once here they start working for an affluent Los Angeles family where the patriarch (Sandler) is a newly celebrated chef with an insecure wife (Leoni). Cast: Adam Sandler (John Clasky), Téa Leoni (Deborah Clasky), Paz Vega (Flor), Cloris Leachman (Deborah's mother), Aimee Garcia (Cristina at 17/Film's Narrator) Director: James L. Brooks / Screenwriter: James L. Brooks Official Web Site: www.sonypictures.com/movies/spanglish

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Playing in Movie Theaters this February …
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Here's a Small Taste of the Comedies
Playing in Movie Theaters this January …
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Here's a Small Taste of the Comedies
Playing in Movie Theaters this December …
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