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Cook Off!
''Cook Off!'' is a 2007 American mockumentary comedy film directed by Cathryn Michon and Guy Shalem. The film was released on November 17, 2017, after being shelved for 10 years. Synopsis A group of quirky people is competing in a famed cooking contest for the grand prize of one million dollars. Cast Production The film was already finished by 2007, but was shelved without explanation for a decade. In September 2017, Lionsgate Premiere reportedly was to finally release the film. Lionsgate had reportedly edited the film prior to release by cutting 20 minutes of footage and adding 22 minutes of previously unused footage. Release The film made its worldwide premiere at the US Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, Colorado, in February 2007. The film was released in theaters and on VOD on November 17, 2017. Reception On review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an average rating of 25% based on eight reviews, with an average rating of 6.20/10. John DeFore of ''The H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cook Off
''Cook Off'' is a 2017 Zimbabwean romantic comedy film written and directed by Tomas Brickhill. Set in contemporary middle class society of Harare, the film stars Tendaiishe Chitima, Fungai Majaya and Tehn Diamond. Production of the film was constantly hit with power failures, budget constraints, anti-government protests and riots which erupted during the final stages of the Presidency of Robert Mugabe. It became the first film to be released after the Zimbabwe Mugabe era which lasted for nearly 40 years. The film also became the first Zimbabwean film to be streamed on Netflix. It received international media attention since its release on the Netflix platform in June 2020. It is only the second Zimbabwean film to receive international attention after '' Neria''. The film is hailed as one of the finest ever films in the Cinema of Zimbabwe after ''Neria'' and ''Yellow Card'' and opened to extremely positive response from Zimbabweans. The film is credited with shattering stere ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cedric Yarbrough
Cedric Percelle Yarbrough (born March 20, 1973) is an American actor and comedian who stars in series ''Reno 911!'' as Deputy S. Jones and as Kenneth on the ABC sitcom '' Speechless'', as well as voicing Gerald Fitzgerald on the Netflix comedy Paradise PD, Officer Meow Meow Fuzzyface on the Netflix comedy-drama '' BoJack Horseman'', and Tom DuBois on the Adult Swim sitcom ''The Boondocks''. Early life Yarbrough was born in Burnsville, Minnesota. He attended Burnsville Senior High School and later Minnesota State University, Mankato. He is also an alumnus of Dudley Riggs' Brave New Workshop in Minneapolis. Career Yarbrough starred on the Comedy Central television series ''Reno 911!'' as Deputy S. (Sven) Jones which aired from 2003-2009 on Comedy Central. The series returned for a seventh season in 2020 on Quibi and for an eighth season in 2022 on The Roku Channel as ''Reno 911! Defunded''. He also appeared in both of the feature length films, 2007's '' Reno 911!: Miami'' and 2021' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melissa Peterman
Melissa Margaret Peterman is an American actress and comedian. She has played the role of Barbra Jean in the television comedy series '' Reba'', appeared as Bonnie Wheeler in the ABC Family/ Freeform series ''Baby Daddy'', and was host of ABC Family's ''Dancing Fools'', ABC's '' Bet on Your Baby'', and CMT's '' The Singing Bee''. Since 2017, she has played Brenda Sparks in ''The Big Bang Theory'' spinoff series ''Young Sheldon''. Since August 2022, she is the host of the television game show ''Person, Place, or Thing'' on the Fox network. Life and career Early life Peterman was born in Edina, Minnesota and grew up in nearby Burnsville, Minnesota. After graduating from Burnsville High School, she attended Minnesota State University, Mankato where she majored in theater. 1996–2000: Career launch Upon graduating from Minnesota State, Peterman was cast as Madeline Monroe in Hey City Theater's production of ''Tony n' Tina's Wedding''. After more than 600 performances, she went ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karen Maruyama
Karen Maruyama (born May 29, 1958) is an American actress and comedian. Career Maruyama has appeared on television in supporting roles in a number of sitcoms, including recurring characters on ''The Jamie Foxx Show'', ''Strip Mall'', ''Suddenly Susan'', and ''Arrested Development''. Maruyama is well known as an improv performer and instructor, and was a featured guest on the American and British versions of ''Whose Line Is It Anyway?'', as well as being a member of The Groundlings. She also appeared as a parking lot attendant in an episode of ''Curb Your Enthusiasm''. She played a nurse in ''The Bucket List'' (2007) and a housekeeper in the 2012 film '' The Campaign''. She is part of the cast of The Jim Henson Company's live stage show "Puppet Up! - Uncensored" which has toured to Aspen, Las Vegas, Edinburgh, Sydney and Melbourne and is currently appearing monthly at Avalon Hollywood. Maruyama was also featured as a fashion victim in an episode of the makeover show '' How Do I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim Rash
James Rash (born July 15, 1971) is an American actor, comedian, and filmmaker. He portrayed the role of Dean Craig Pelton on the NBC sitcom ''Community'' (2009–2015), for which he was nominated for the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series in 2012. In that same year, he won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay and received a Golden Globe nomination as one of the writers of ''The Descendants''. Early life Rash was born in Charlotte, North Carolina, on July 15, 1971. Both he and his sister were adopted.Interview with Paul F. Tompkins, 'Speakeasy' He attended Charlotte Latin School. After graduating, he spent a post-graduate year at the Lawrenceville School in Lawrenceville, New Jersey. He was a member of The Groundlings, the improv comedy group based in Los Angeles. Career Rash played Mr. Grayson/Stitches in the 2005 film '' Sky High'', Fenton on ''That '70s Show'', and Andrew the "whore house guy" on ''Reno 911!'' He appeared i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Willson
Paul Lee Willson (born December 25, 1945) is an American film, television and voice actor well known for many roles, including as Paul Krapence on '' Cheers''. He was born in Fairmont, Minnesota, the son of Doris Geraldine and Lee Wilford Willson. Career Willson has played numerous guest characters on a variety of shows including '' Laverne & Shirley'' as Eraserhead in episode "A Date with Eraserhead", and ''Full House'' as Stu in episode "Crimes and Michelle's Demeanor" in 1990, '' Curb Your Enthusiasm'', ''Boston Public'', '' Caroline in the City'', '' The Newsroom'' and '' Star Trek: Voyager''. He is perhaps most famous for his repeated guest character of Paul Krapence on the television show '' Cheers'' (which he also reprised in an episode of the ''Cheers'' spin-off, ''Frasier''). His character was originally called "Gregg" because Paul Vaughn was already playing a character named "Paul" on ''Cheers''. For five years (1986-1990) he was Garry Shandling's neighbor Leona ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sam Pancake
Sam Pancake (born May 10, 1964) is an American actor, improviser, writer, and comedian. He began his career with small roles in TV and film, such as ''Wings (1990 TV series), Wings'' in 1990 and ''Pizza Man (1991 film), Pizza Man'' in 1991. Early life Sam Pancake was raised in Romney, West Virginia, with siblings Chet Pancake, an American filmmaker, and Ann Pancake, an American novelist. Sam is also a distant relative of Breece D'J Pancake. Sam's father, Joe S. Pancake, was a Presbyterian minister, and later in life, a social worker. His mother, Robin Pancake, was a high-school teacher. Both parents attended university, and encouraged their children to pursue the arts, which Sam's sister Ann Pancake credits to the siblings' creativity. Education Pancake graduated from Hampshire High School in West Virginia and graduated'' cum laude ''with a bachelor of fine arts in theater from West Virginia University in 1990. After graduation, Pancake moved to Los Angeles, where he still re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steve Little (actor)
Steve Little (born July 1, 1972) is an American actor, comedian and writer, best known for his roles on the shows ''Camp Lazlo'', ''The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack'', ''Eastbound & Down'', ''Adventure Time'', ''The Grinder (TV series), The Grinder'', and ''Haters Back Off''. He also used to co-star on the Adult Swim series ''Neon Joe, Werewolf Hunter''. Career Little was a member of The Groundlings, an improvisational and sketch comedy troupe based in Los Angeles. Joe Murray (animator), Joe Murray encountered Little and asked Little if he was interested in being a voice actor and decided that Little matched the "Dung Beetle" characters Chip and Skip.Character Museum ," ''Joe Murray (animator), Joe Murray Studio'' Following a period working as both writer and actor, he starred in the 2011 Todd Rohal film ''The Catechism ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cooking Show
A cooking show, cookery show, or cooking program (also spelled cooking programme in British English) is a television genre that presents food preparation, often in a restaurant kitchen or on a studio set, or at the host's personal home. Typically the show's host, often a celebrity chef, prepares one or more dishes over the course of an episode, taking the viewing audience through the food's inspiration, preparation, and stages of cooking. Due to time and production constraints, most, if not all, cooking shows employ filming shortcuts such as video editing, food modeling and photography, and prepared ingredients to speed up the cooking process and ensure a smooth and seamless production. Cooking shows have been a popular staple of daytime TV programming since the earliest days of television. They are generally very inexpensive to produce, making them an economically easy way for a TV station to fill a half-hour (or sometimes 60-minute) time slot. A number of cooking shows ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Comedy Film
A comedy film is a category of film which emphasizes humor. These films are designed to make the audience laugh through amusement. Films in this style traditionally have a happy ending (black comedy being an exception). Comedy is one of the oldest genres in film and it is derived from the classical comedy in theatre. Some of the earliest silent films were comedies, as slapstick comedy often relies on visual depictions, without requiring sound. When sound films became more prevalent during the 1930s, comedy films took another swing, as laughter could result from burlesque situations but also dialogue. Comedy, compared with other film genres, puts much more focus on individual stars, with many former stand-up comics transitioning to the film industry due to their popularity. In '' The Screenwriters Taxonomy'' (2017), Eric R. Williams contends that film genres are fundamentally based upon a film's atmosphere, character, and story. Therefore the labels "drama" and "comedy" are t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mockumentary
A mockumentary (a blend of ''mock'' and ''documentary''), fake documentary or docu-comedy is a type of film or television show depicting fictional events but presented as a documentary. These productions are often used to analyze or comment on current events and issues by using a fictional setting, or to parody the documentary form itself. While mockumentaries are usually comedic, pseudo-documentaries are their dramatic equivalents. However, pseudo-documentary should not be confused with docudrama, a fictional genre in which dramatic techniques are combined with documentary elements to depict real events. Also, docudrama is different from docufiction, a genre in which documentaries are contaminated with fictional elements. Mockumentaries are often presented as historical documentaries, with B roll and talking heads discussing past events, or as '' cinéma vérité'' pieces following people as they go through various events. Examples emerged during the 1950s when archival film ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
US Comedy Arts Festival
The Comedy Festival, formerly known as the US Comedy Arts Festival, was a comedy festival that ran from 1995 to 2008. The festival included stand-up comedy performances, appearances by the casts of television shows, and has a film component called the Film Discovery Program. History The first 13 editions of the US Comedy Arts Festival were held annually at the Wheeler Opera House and other venues in Aspen, Colorado. The primary sponsor of the festival was HBO, with co-sponsorship by Caesars Palace (the primary venue), TBS, GEICO Insurance, Twix candy bars and Smirnoff Vodka. In-between, HBO had started a spin-off version simply named The Comedy Festival, which was held in Las Vegas, Nevada, since 2006, in collaboration with the Anschutz Entertainment Group The Anschutz Entertainment Group (AEG), also known as AEG Worldwide, is an American global sporting and music entertainment presenter and a subsidiary of The Anschutz Corporation. It is the world's largest owner of spo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
